A Texas mother posted an open letter
on her blog Monday urging her 13-year-old daughter to use Miley Cyrus as a
example of the kind of girl she should never become.
Kim Keller of Frisco runs a blog
called Roadkill Goldfish and used it to vent the extreme anger she felt after
watching Cyrus’s now-infamous Video Music Award performance.
Thirty-six hours later, the letter
titled Dear Daughter, Let Miley Cyrus Be a Lesson to You had gained 3 million
views.
‘If you ever even consider doing
something like that, I promise you that I will run up and twerk so you will see
how ridiculous twerking looks,’ Keller wrote. ‘I will duct tape your mouth
shut so your tongue doesn't hangout like an overheated hound dog.’
Humor like that runs throughout
Keller’s heartfelt letter, which as of Thursday evening had received 1,400
comments
‘I’m sorry if you’ve ever felt
demoralized because your Instagram following isn’t in the thousands. I’m sorry
those “selfies” can never capture how amazingly beautiful you truly are.’
In addition to laughs, the letter
offers straightforward advice.
‘You probably know girls who will
emulate this behavior at the next school dance,’ she wrote. ‘Don’t do it with
them. You are far too valuable to sell yourself so cheaply.’
Part of Keller’s frustration, and
part of what drove her to write the wildly popular letter, came from the years
Keller and her daughter spent watching Cyrus’s Disney program together.
In the years after Hannah Montana,
Keller believes Cyrus has been dying for attention and that the most recent,
and blatant, attempt at it made her ‘absolutely angry.’
In a chat with Good Morning
America, Keller also offered Cyrus some motherly advice.
‘If I could say anything to Miley, I
would say this: 'Honey you are beautiful, you are valuable, you are loved, and
you don't have to do this for attention. This is not who God created you to
be,”’ she said.
The final sentence of Keller’s
letter probably sums it up best: ‘You can thank me later.’
So
glad someone is eventually standing up and speaking against these desperate
artistes doing everything possible to become relevant way pass their time. When
light comes, darkness disappears. It’s time light starts shinning especially in
Nigeria again. God help us all.
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