Miley Cyrus does it again: pushing the boundaries just a little bit further in a quest to shock to the world.

For a new spread in Interview magazine, she is shown topless and with her hands down her pants in a group of photos captured during a sexting FaceTime session with fashion photographer Mert Alas.

But after these five controversial moments, Miley hardly has the capacity to shock any more with her raunchy antics:

1. 2013 MTV VMA Performance

This iconic Miley moment is seared into the retinas of all who saw it. She twerked while singing her hit single We Can’t Stop; she grinded on Robin Thicke as she duetted Blurred Lines; she touched herself and Robin suggestively with a foam finger.

Though this might now seem pretty par for the course with Miley, at the time nobody was expecting her to be quite so explicit… especially not Will Smith and family.

2. Vanity Fair Photoshoot

The photos of a teenage Miley, shot by famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, stirred up outrage because she was so young and known for playing wholesome Hannah Montana. Miley was pictured semi-naked and wrapped in a sheet, shocking many fans – as well as Disney.

Miley released an apology, saying: “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. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologise to my fans who I care so deeply about.”

3. Pole-dancing Teen Choice Awards performance

Miley Cyrus
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The 16-year-old ignited controversy with her 2009 performance of hit single Party In The USA at the Teen Choice Awards, when she danced on a stripper pole on top of an ice-cream cart.

4. When she declared herself a stoner

Though in 2010 she defended herself when photos surfaced of her smoking from a bong by saying she was using legal hallucinogen Salvia, Miley later made no secret of her marijuana usage.

In 2011 she celebrated her 19th birthday with a Bob Marley cake, telling friends: “You know you’re a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake.”

Since then, she’s also lit up a joint on stage, for good measure.

5. Wrecking Ball video

She “came in like a wrecking ball”, scoring her first Billboard Hot No 1 with a video where she swings naked on – you guessed it – a wrecking ball. She also licks a hammer, for some reason. This opened up the Bangerz era, when Miley stepped up the sexual imagery and left behind Hannah Montana – forever.