Miley Cyrus shares the true story behind her controversial 2008 Vanity Fair cover

Miley Cyrus is selecting to Slide Away from the haters. 

The Midnight Singer has opened up about her controversial 2008 Vanity Fair cover shoot the place she posed topless. 

Cyrus, 30, has been hitting us with all the nostalgia currently with her TikTok collection Used to Be Young in promotion of her newest single of the similar identify. 

Watch the video above. 

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In the most up-to-date instalment, the singer lastly mentioned what went on behind-the- scenes of her controversial picture shoot over a decade in the past. 

“Everyone knows the controversy of the photo, but they don’t really know the behind-the-scenes, which is always much more meaningful,” Cyrus started. 

In the picture, the then 15-year-old confronted backlash for posing topless with daring purple lipstick on and only a blanket protecting her chest. 

In the unique TikTok video, Cyrus shared that her household had been really current on the set of the Vanity Fair shoot. 

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“My little sister, Noah, was sitting on Annie [Leibovitz]’s lap and actually pushing the button of the camera, taking the pictures,” the singer recalled of her then eight-year-old sister. 

The Party in the USA singer then delved into the artistic selections made by the journal’s make-up group to interrupt the star away from her Disney picture. 

“This was the first time I ever wore red lipstick because Pati Dubroff, who did my makeup, thought that that would be another element that would divide me from Hannah Montana,” she explains. 

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“This image of me as a complete opposite of the bubble gum pop star that I had been known for being and that’s what was so upsetting. But really, really brilliant choices looking back now from those people.”

This is not the first time Cyrus has addressed the extremely controversial near-nude cover. 

Not lengthy after the Vanity Fair situation got here out, Cyrus responded to the media backlash with an issued assertion of apology shared by The Guardian.  

“I took part in a photoshoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” The Last Song actress mentioned. 

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“Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines,” the singer mentioned at the time.

However, a decade on and as a lady in her mid-20s at the time, Cyrus clearly had modified her tune.

In 2018, the singer hit again at the critics on X, previously often known as Twitter, to retract her apology writing: “I’M NOT SORRY “F— YOU #10yearsago.”

The comment was in response to a resurfaced article from the New York Post in 2008 with the headline “Miley’s Shame” as it detailed her ‘apology’ for the “near-nude pic”.

As part of her Used to Be Young TikTok series, Cyrus has been looking back on key moments from her career, including reacting to the Hoedown Throwdown dance from the Hannah Montana movie and the trailer for the Disney show that started it all.