Hugh Hefner wants Miley Cyrus to pose for Playboy… after three years, when she turns 18. He called Miley a “very pretty lady.”

“Sure, she'd be welcomed in the magazine,” he told Extra. “Very pretty lady.”

Playboy’s 82-year-old founder expressed his opinion upon the scandal which developed around Cyrus’ photo session for Vanity Fair, where the girl showed her shoulders and back. The young star apologized to fans, saying she was “embarrassed” by the pictures.

“I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be "artistic" and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” Miley declared after the controversy stirred by the pictures made by famous photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Hugh Hefner said the outcry over the Hannah Montana star revealing her back shows “how schizophrenic America is about sexuality.” He said he thinks the photos in Vanity Fair were “innocent.”

“I think to make such a big to-do over something as innocent as those photos, I think is a reflection on how schizophrenic America is about sexuality,” Hefner said.

He has a history of courting minor girls for Playboy Magazine. He called the couple Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen “every young’s man fantasy,” asking them to strip in front of his shooting camera. He also made a proposal to Lindsay Lohan who refused to pose for the magazine.

The problem is that the 15-year-old star, who plays in Hannah Montana, the TV show for children aged 6 to 14, may be a model for 164 million viewers worldwide, or, at least, for some of them. Many young children look at her and admire her and want to do, some day, the things that she does.