The “Paper” (papermag.com) scored a major scoop this week with a … mostly nude (i.e. merkin and pasties) spread of the now grown-up star of “Hannah Montana”, pop diva Miley Cyrus.

The piece, written by Amanda Petrusich, with photography by Paola Kudacki, includes this opening paragraph:

“Miley Cyrus is in the midst of making a heated point about animal rights, and she’s getting so worked up about it her cheekbones are jabbing the keypad of the telephone, punctuating our conversation with errant beeps. She’s calling from “the middle of the jungle” — or, more specifically, a tiny island in the Caribbean, where she’s on vacation with her family. “If you could see where I am right now, you would be laughing so hard,” she says. “I feel like I’m in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, and something is about to zap me into nothingness.”

Of course, the “elephant in the room” doesn’t have much to do with Caribbean isles or her Alaskan Klee Kai, mentioned in a second paragraph, it dealt with Miley’s somewhat thin and getting thinner physique.

The “headlining” phrase in the interview was this:

“I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that’s legal, I’m down with. Yo, I’m down with any adult — anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me,” she says. “I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.” She says she’s had romantic entanglements with women that were just as serious as the ones (Liam Hemsworth, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nick Jonas) that ended up in Us Weekly. “I’ve had that,” she admits. “But people never really looked at it, and I never brought it into the spotlight.”