Disney's Dirty Little (Victoria's) Secret

So if you're buyin' what Disney has been sellin' lately -- that they are appalled by the Vanity Fair pics of Miley Cyrus -- you're more gullible than a weapons inspector in Iraq.Click to see photos
TMZ has turned up Disney ads marketing lacy, sexy lingerie by models who are made to look underage. They're hawking bras, undies and lacy boy shorts. They are nothing short of seductive. The photos are being used by Shanghai Zhenxin Garment Company to sell Disney clothes in China.

So who "manipulated" Winnie the Pooh into a three-way with jail-bait looking chicks? For the record, Annie Leibovitz didn't take these photos.

Calls to Disney were not immediately returned.




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31. Do you mean more gullible than the average American who voted to send troops to Iraq? Seems like the weapons inspectors got it right when they couldn't find anything.

Posted at 2:19PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Irate Weapons Inspector

32. Can it be Winnie the Pimp!!

Posted at 2:21PM on Apr 30th 2008 by val

33. This is nonsense. What do you expect models in an underwear ad to be wearing?
It's not even sexy lingerie -- looks like just your staple gear for girls, to me.
"Dirt" is in the mind of the beholder... what business is TMZ in?

Posted at 2:29PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Tag

34. TMZ's snarky attitude nauseates me. I will never watch your television show or read your website articles again.

Posted at 2:29PM on Apr 30th 2008 by PXM

35. Goebbels, your mentor, would be so disappointed in you, TMZ Obviously, propaganda and disinformation ain't your game-though you try very hard. The models in that picture are in their 20's, and there is no excuse, legally or morally, for what Leibovitz and Vanity Fair did TO Miley Cyrus. None. Why didn't Annie discuss the "money shot" with Billy Ray and Tish, huh? Only after they left the shoot did the snake, Annie, propose such filth to Miley. And Miley's aged grandmother and her schoolteacher were in no position to stop the shoot. I say-prosecute Leibovitz and Vanity Fair to the fullest extent of the law-those purveyors of filth, child abuse, and child pornography.

Posted at 2:35PM on Apr 30th 2008 by every breath you take i'll be watching you

36.
OK now let's get real. One group of pictures is for the sole purpose of advertisement to sell Disney under garmets to pre-teen girls (DIRECTED TO GIRLS AND PARENTS-- Not sold on news stands), the other MILEY photos in Vanity Fair are not selling anything but her flesh.
Those photos in the advertisement are selling a PRODUCT...product.
What is Vanity Fair selling? Can you order the sheet she is draped in? I think not. In this story, you are comparing apples to oranges. Just because they sell beer and wine in Walt Disney World, does it make Mickie and Minnie Mouse, drunks? Each genre Disney persues is aimed at a different age category. It is UNFAIR to compare an advertisement to the --naked-- images of Miley in a reputable magazine. ***** Disney should have insisted that THEY have a legal say in any outside work Miley does. She is held to a higher standard and should act accordingly. ***** Does this now mean that when she is a legal age she will pose for a Hooter's calendar or Playboy and sing a kid Disney channel song the same week? Who set the VF photo shoot up for Miley?

Posted at 2:39PM on Apr 30th 2008 by DuBiOuS...

37. Here's another similar picture that appeared on a billboard in China: http://www.slate.com/id/2190209/ (scroll down about halfway through the article). In this case, the girl doesn't look anywhere near 18.

Disney is trying to distance itself from this particular ad by saying that it was done by some subcontractor that they don't have control over. Nonetheless, I'm sure that Disney isn't disavowing the profits that are generated as a result of ad campaigns like this.

I'm deliberately not commenting on whether I think that it's acceptable or not for a company to run ads like this. The point I'm making is that Miley's photos are not all that different from this picture, insofar as both involve girls that are clearly less than 18 years old.

Posted at 2:41PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Disney profits from the eroticizing of children

38. Newsflash: Disney is hypocritical, and has been for years.
Newsflash: Water is wet.

Posted at 2:44PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Duh

39. "And I wondered much further today than I should...
Now I sit on her shoulder just working up wood..."

Posted at 2:56PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Winnie Loggins

40. I CAN'T BELIEVE THE POSTS THAT READ LIKE MILEY WAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. THAT'S RIDICULOUS. MILEY HAS ALREADY PROVEN VIA SLEAZY PICS POSTED BY HER ON THE NET THAT LIKE MANY BEFORE HER SHE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO REMAIN IN THE SPOTLIGHT. AT THIS POINT SHE IS NO BETTER THAN BRIT, LILO, JAIME OR PARIS. SHE'S SIMPLY FOLLOWING BY EXAMPLE. AFTER ALL, LEWDNESS WORKED FOR THEM. ALSO, IF YOU BOTHERED TO READ THE POST YOU WOULD KNOW THOSE GIRLS ARE MODELS MADE TO LOOK YOUNGER. ANYONE WHO'S NOT BLIND CAN TELL THOSE ARE YOUNG WOMEN. DUH!!!!

Posted at 2:57PM on Apr 30th 2008 by OhMy

41. There are a lot bigger issues to deal with than Disney trying to sell lace undies to teenagers. Looking at teenagers today, the last thing you have to worry about them doing is buying Pooh Lace undergarments. They are buying skirts that don't cover what they are meant to and wearing panties with quite a bit less coverage. Pervs don't have to look at Disney pics they just have to go to the mall.

As for the symbols and hidden "items" in Disney movies, I grew up with Aladin, Little Mermaid and Lion King. Their "easter eggs" if you will did not influence me in any way, in fact I did not even know about the castle incident on the Mermaid box until I was well into high school. Kid's don't know about these things until someone tells them.

Posted at 3:00PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Focus People

42. Cute cartoon characters are popular with adult asian women of all ages. No sexual implications.

Posted at 3:04PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Good

43. THAT'S REALLY GOOFY!

Posted at 3:12PM on Apr 30th 2008 by reality

44. disney, like every other money-machine, realize that sex sells and won't stop until people wake up and realize that their children are being pandered to and their stars and being pimped out to make them even more money. today's Disney bears no resemblance to the Disney that I grew up with. Its all about the BENJAMINS.

Posted at 3:17PM on Apr 30th 2008 by withak

45. Those Disney Underwear Stores are everywhere in China. They're actually pretty nice too. They have nightgowns, bras, panties all designed after the Disney Princesses. I bought myself the entire Jasmine set when I visited China last year. It's actually a better bra than Victoria Secret!

Posted at 3:19PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Cassie

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