Like a wrecking ball! Miley Cyrus poses nude in racy prison shoot for celebrity snapper, David LaChapelle

SHE’S projected a more demure image lately. But Miley Cyrus has stripped in front of the camera as part of a controversial new shoot.

Miley Cyrus has stripped off for famed celebrity photographer David LaChapelle.

SHE’S not shy! Miley Cyrus has stripped off again for celebrity photographer David LaChapelle, this time posing completely nude in a prison cell.

While Cyrus has shed her provocative Bangerz-era image, she still is getting her clothes off in the name of art.

The Malibu singer appears on the cover of LaChapelle’s new book, Lost + Found. It’s the second naked image of Cyrus released by the famed snapper ... following a full-frontal naked photo of her, dressed as a butterfly.

Cyrus, 24, has previously spoken about regretting posing nude in her infamous Wrecking Ball video clip, saying: “I’m never living that down. I will always be the naked girl on a wrecking ball … I should have thought how long that was going to have to follow me around”.

Miley Cyrus in a jail cell on the cover of David LaChapelle’s book Lost + Found. Picture: Taschen

A previously released image of Miley Cyrus as a naked butterfly from David LaChapelle’s book Lost + Found. Picture: Taschen

Meantime, Cyrus has spoken out about her engagement to Australian actor Liam Hemsworth.

“I don’t envision marriage. I’m 24. I hope I get to live a little bit more. I have too much living to do,” she said, according to the New York Post.

Cyrus is currently wearing the engagement ring Hemsworth, 27, gave her in 2012, but admitted that after they called off their engagement the first time, she didn’t think they’d ever get back together, nypost.com said.

“Three years ago, if you’d asked me if I’d be here, this happy with this man, I’d have been stunned,” she said.

“I’m just riding this out. In some relationships, you lose yourself by being with someone else.

“Actually, it made me find myself more. I have no idea what the next three years will bring, but if it’s possible to get even happier, I’ll take it.”

Miley Cyrus has dismissed speculation she married Liam Hemsworth in secret.

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