If you were a kid in the 2000s, there’s a good chance you grew up with Miley Cyrus.

Since she burst onto the scene as Hannah Montana in 2006, Cyrus has been a fixture in pop culture.

To mark the release of her new single Used To Be Young, Cyrus is looking back on her time in Hollywood in a candid TikTok series.

Here’s what we learnt.

Killer schedules

Cyrus’ journey to becoming Hannah Montana began in in 2004, when she was just 12 years old.

Singing a Britney Spears song, she originally auditioned for Hannah’s friend Lilly — a part that would eventually go to Emily Osment.

The now-30-year-old gave her TikTok audience a candid look at what her schedule looked like when she was barely in her teens.

Here’s the example she gave

‘That’ Vanity Fair photo

Cyrus’ journey from Disney tween to burgeoning woman was heavily covered in tabloids of the time.

And it was all kickstarted with a risque Vanity Fair cover shoot with Annie Lebovitz.

The cover image showed 15-year-old Cyrus, seemingly nude and wrapped in a bedsheet.

The backlash from the public and Disney was so immense that both Cyrus and Leibovitz apologised (Cyrus would rescind this apology 10 years later).

In 2023, Cyrus remembers the photo shoot differently.

“My little sister Noah, was sitting on Annie’s lap taking the pictures. My family was on set,” she says.

“This is the first time I wore red lipstick because Pati Dubroff who did my make up thought that would divide me from Hannah Montana.

“This image is a complete opposite of the bubblegum pop star that I had been. And that’s what was so upsetting.”

“But really brilliant choices looking back from those people.”

The stage antics were so notorious that a planned concert in the Dominican Republic was cancelled by the government on ‘morality grounds’.

“People were like why are you doing this? You’re doing like 100 shows and you’re not going to make any money,” Cyrus says.“I said there’s no one I would rather invest in than myself. So, I paid for it all to make it what I thought I and the fans deserved.”