The Jennifer Blogs

I read something incredibly inappropriate in the news this morning. As a mother, it makes me cringe. It makes me angry. And for a change, it has nothing to do with Britney Spears.



Undoubtedly you've heard about the whole Miley Cyrus thing. I mean, unless you've been under a rock or on the moon or under a moon rock, you know about the pictures for Vanity Fair magazine. Miley is supposedly very embarrassed. Some say it was a publicity stunt. Others say it was a big mistake, and that it's all her parents' fault. Regardless, I'm a forgiving person. We all make mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and all that.



But Hugh Hefner has taken it to a very certain level of "ooginess." According to the TV show EXTRA, the Playboy King would welcome Miley to the pages of his magazine once she turns 18.



Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Hugh is thinking about a 15-year-old girl in those terms? I'm disgusted by it, personally. My daughter is 12 and she's beautiful. She's lean with an athletic build. She has beautiful skin, beautiful hair and beautiful eyes. One day she will turn heads. But she's only 12. She's still a little girl. And it makes me completely sick to think that someone would say, "When your daughter is 18, I'd like to see her naked."



Miley's parents have got to be livid over this. I'm sure they were hoping it would all blow over -- this whole Vanity Fair photo thing. But I wouldn't blame Billy Ray if he headed over to the Playboy Mansion in search of an old geezer in a bathrobe and made a few threats. A good old fashioned butt-whoopin' wouldn't be out of place. Maybe he could find some other people with two first names to help out -- Jim Bob, Ricky Bobby, Bobby Steve, Billy Joe, Tommy Jack, ... you get the idea.



I hope for poor Miley's sake this whole thing becomes old news, but with TV channels like E, there's bound to be some special 10 years from now about "Mistakes of the Disney Stars," and she could very well be in second place behind Britney.