Miley Cyrus the next fallen starlet?

Apparently Miley Cyrus has attracted attention after posing topless, covered by a blanket, for Vanity Fair have created a bit of a splash. The linked article points to many teen stars who have done similar things to damage their reputations, but it points to only one male star, Daniel Radcliff, whose reputation was not ruined by his nudity in Equus, but he was instead taken seriously as an adult actor.

At first I wondered if the difference in the way that stars are treated for essentially the same thing, such as nudity, had to do with gender, but I think this might be a bit too simplistic in the explanation. Let us take for example, Daniel Radcliff and Jessica Biel of 7th Heaven fame, both have bared it all to the world, Radcliff in Equus and Biel in a photo spread in Gear Magazine, so the difference is obviously not what they have shown off, but they were treated differently for these appearances. While Radcliff was praised for becoming an adult actor Biel was dropped from her TV role on 7th Heaven. My thoughts on this are not so much that gender came into play in this, although I do think genders are treated differently by the media, but instead that the purpose behind the appearance had to do with how the media and the public perceived each. For Radcliff the purpose was to expand his repetoir as an actor and to prove that he could play something other than Harry Potter, for Biel it appears the purpose of the photo spread was to prove that she could take her clothes off, not much redeeming value.

So what does this have to do with Miley Cyrus? The article got me thinking about the how these young women are idolized by so many and the pressure that they must be under to live up to expectations. At the age of fifteen Miley Cyrus is performing sold out concerts and her "brand" is expected to sell over $1 billion this year. What male counterpart does she have? I am beginning to think that the pressure on these girls might be what causes the fall from grace in the first place; they are carefully chosen and marketed to the public; they are sold early and often. Is it really any wonder that they eventually fall from grace due to the pressure they are under to constantly be perfect? I just think it is sad that fifteen is old enough to crack under that kind of pressure.