The former Disney star showed up at the 2012 Billboard Awards in white Jean Paul Gaultier jacket — and not much more than a smile. The pants-free 19-year-old said she likes her new image: “If people find that [I am a sex symbol], I take it as a compliment,” adding, “Thank you for thinking I’m sexy!”
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Miley Cyrus wore white at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles — but the 19-year-old former Disney star looked anything but innocent.
The actress and “Can’t Be Tamed” singer showed off her skinnier-than-ever frame — plus a shocking amount of cleavage and her lean legs — in a white Jean Paul Gaulthier jacket and no pants. Cyrus accessorized the super-daring jacket with Jacquie Aiche jewels and Christian Louboutin heels.
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Cyrus recently addressed her precociously sexy image during an interview on Lifetime’s The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet.
“If people find that [I am a sex symbol], I take it as a compliment,” the former Hannah Montana star said. “Thank you for thinking I’m sexy!”
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She said of the public backlash against her provocative behavior: “People are so scared of seeing a woman being like, ‘This is who I am and you’re not going to change it.’”
And growing up and out of her squeaky-clean child star days was truly liberating, Cyrus added.
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“I just got so set in the way of saying the same things I did when I was 12 years old. . . I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.”
Miley Cyrus: Sex is a beautiful, magical thing
Miley Cyrus wasn’t born yet when Salt-N-Pepa blessed the world with their single “Let’s Talk About Sex,” but the 19-year-old former Disney star did ‘em proud during a recent appearance on “The Conversation” with Amanda de Cadenet.
As the show’s meant to replicate an open and honest, well, conversation, when the topic turned to sex Cyrus wasn’t bashful.
“[It used to be] if you’re a woman you do not sing about sex, and now, if that’s not what you’re singing about, if that’s not your entire image, you won’t get played,” she told de Cadenet, adding that she’s seen the industry’s judgmental stance on women and sexuality firsthand.
“The last season of ['Hannah Montana'] I put out ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ – which, even just the title of that, for a woman to say that she can’t be tamed, and of all people in the world, my face saying I can’t be tamed, when that’s all people really wanted to do – that I think proves how sexist people still really are and judgmental,” she said. “It’s the whole thing of saying ‘be sexy, but our way.”
