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

“Then the next starts at 7am and ends at 7:30pm,” Cyrus says.

“That was on a Saturday, and then back to work on Monday.”

Off-camera, her mother Tish Cyrus chimes in.

“That was your life for the next four years,” she says.

‘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.”

On her relationship with Liam Hemsworth

For most of the videos, Cyrus sticks to her career and family but dedicates a little time to her ex-husband, Australian actor Liam Hemsworth.

The pair met while filming 2010’s The Last Song.

“In 2008, I needed to do another feature film for Disney and I didn’t want it to be a part of Hannah Montana,” Cyrus says.

“We had gotten it down from 1000’s to the final three and Liam was part of that final three.”

Cyrus continues: “I think what was so beautiful about that film was it was watching two young people fall in love with each other which was happening in real time and real life.”