Miley Cyrus is now defending the same Vanity Fair photo shoot she apologized for last April, saying that Americans are just too conservative and need to get over it. Scotland's Daily Record reports:

"Everyone outside of America liked it a little bit more because that's more like the style, but the States are really conservative."

"[I] guess I just had to deal with that and just realize that I got to work with an amazing photographer."

"That's what I want to do with my life," the pop star continued, referencing Leibovitz's chosen profession. "I would love to be a photographer. She was amazing and so talented and her lighting... I would love to work with her again. But I realize I'm just a kid."

While I normally like to mock celebrities and the stupid things that come out of their mouths, in this case I'm not going to because Cyrus is completely correct. In fact, I respect her a lot more for essentially taking back her apology because she had nothing to apologize for in the first place. Last time I checked, Miley was only a few months younger than Britney Spears was when she filmed her Baby One More Time music video in a sexy school girl outfit, so I never quite understood what the big deal was.

Besides, do we really want to teach young girls that as they get older it's a a bad thing to take off their clothes? I think not. That's just downright un-American.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Miley just being a kid while she still can, out for a bike ride in Toluca Lake last week.