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MILEY CYRUS has been chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential people, and in the issue, out this Friday, DONNY OSMOND comments on the teen sensation before her now-famous Vanity Fair photos were made public -- almost predicting the controversy.

"Miley Cyrus is riding a huge tidal wave at the pinnacle of her career; this is as it should be," he writes. "I hope she enjoys it. I guarantee there will be many bumps in the road ahead. One of them, especially for somebody who acts and sings on her own show, is that your image becomes cryogenically frozen into a specific stereotype ... As she [grows up], she'll want to change her image, and that change will be met with adversity. It's next to impossible to fight, embrace, use or love your image. Trust me, I've seen this all play out before; it's the same ball game, just different players in a different time."