Britney Spears: Aussie Cosmopolitan Cover Deception (Photos)

graces the cover of Australian Cosmopolitan magazine's December 2008 issue. The photo is hot and according to our friends at TMZ , it's five years old. The image was lifted from a 2003 Esquire magazine photo shoot.

This isn't the first publication to use deceptively old photos. Check out Britney's OK magazine's April 2008 cover here. The photo was from a 2003 Glamour photo shoot.

Check out the Esquire shoot photos below.

Brit and Justin Timberlake together in L.A. to perform with Madonna tonight.