Comments on: The Hannah Montana Effect

By: Brian Richardson

Brian Richardson — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:53:04 +0000

I hope I\’m famous enough someday to totally blow off Miley Cyrus and Kanye West. The only thing I can do now is continue to not buy their albums.

By: Giovanni Stone

Giovanni Stone — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:52:00 +0000

Ha ha!!! Awesome!

By: Sharl

Sharl — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:11:31 +0000

Destiny Hope? Really? ~wince~ Eit. No wonder she changed it.

By: Bree

Bree — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:46:21 +0000

She legally changed her name to Miley Rae. Her former real name was Destiny Hope.

By: Sarahbear

Sarahbear — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:10:50 +0000

“second, my daughter owns two of her “barbie” look-a-like dolls. and both have very small, brazilian style (thong?) panties painted on. this is disturbing to me. and if these dolls were not gifts, we would have thrown them out already. is miley endorsing this doll? does this doll represent the kind of society we live in? do teen age girls really wear thong underwear? and if so, why?”

I wonder if leaving the painted underwear off might be better? The doll isn’t anatomically correct, I should hope. It should be safely androgenous south of the border. The painted thong just seems kind of unnecessary and provocative. Just my opinion, though.

As for Mylee thinking she’s fat, well, I’m not surprised when young girls are bombarded at every turn with the kind of beauty standard they are expected to live up to.

I heard something else that disturbs me more, actually. I don’t know how valid it is, but I heard she legally changed her name to Hannah Montanna. Somebody tell me this isn’t true. Why on earth would her parents let her DO that?

By: Heather BartleItt

Heather BartleItt — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:59:36 +0000

My daughter watches Hannah Montana. I was watching it with her the other day and Hannah was onstage in a pair of tight jeans and I was thinking how lean she looked and how similar she was to my 13 year old in body type. My daughters are naturally lean, so I didn’t think much of it other than that brief thought – which you just now reminded me of.

No matter what your size is or how you look, if you don’t stop worrying all the time that you don’t measure up to somebody’s standard, you are going to be miserable.

The fact of the matter is that no matter what you or a star or anybody looks like, somebody will like it and somebody will not like it. The most important thing is to just eat healthy food, exercise, be passionate and loving and forgiving and try to accept the love of others.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:42:51 +0000

Richard, maybe you should leave it up to the individual to decide if they feel good or not. It’s pretty damn obvious that I weigh more than others. But why is that any of your damn business? I’m tired of people poking their noses into my fat – stop telling me how to feel about myself, k? That is MY job alone.

It’s the same old, “I did it! So can you!” mantra that I’m sick of.

People are different. People are ALLOWED to be different.

By: Kim Hawkins

Kim Hawkins — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:26:04 +0000

I believe that I saw something about her having hypoglycemia – I just recently saw something on Entertainment Tonight about how she has to eat constantly during her concerts – apparently she does a lot of costume changes during the show, and she takes a couple of bites of a sandwich every time she changes clothes.

By: stephanie

stephanie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:04:12 +0000

Hm, I hope that’s not the case, but sadly, it may well be. I hope those who care about her don’t let her become malnourished!

By: CindyS

CindyS — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:51:22 +0000

Speaking of young girls thinking they are fat … moms, how do you protect your daughters from this kind of thinking? Over the holidays, I heard one of my nephews jokingly tell his 6-year-old sister that she was fat — which she is not. He didn’t mean anything by it, but it immediately worried me. I am not around these kids much and what if he teases her about that often? Might she come to believe it? I didn’t know what to say, and didn’t hear him do it again, so I think it was an isolated incident. I’d like to be prepared if it did happen again, though. What would you have said?