The story of Miley Cyrus’s transition from Hannah Montana to Grammy award winner to youngest Disney legend
Look back at Miley’s always surprising — and often shocking — changes over her two-decade career.
In 2006, Miley Cyrus donned a blonde wig and changed her life.
Little did she know, Cyrus would also become one of the most recognizable figures of her generation and a cultural icon apart of many people’s childhoods. For five years, the Disney Channel child star led Hannah Montana as the eponymous pop star living a double life.
Following the series finale in January 2011, Cyrus adopted her famous character’s occupation and launched a successful music career that included several of the 2010s’ most memorable pop culture moments.
With eight studio albums, two Grammy Awards and two No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, Cyrus has established herself as a bonafide music icon and recently became the youngest person to be named a Disney Legend. Still, her journey to get there hasn’t always been smooth sailing.
See Cyrus’ evolution over the last two decades, from a wee Disney starlet to an official Disney Legend.
Before she was an international superstar, Miley Cyrus was just being Miley Stewart — a middle school girl who once awkwardly rubbed ketchup on her crush’s hands and claimed it was a great moisturizer. Her lead role as a normal girl living a double life as a pop star on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana made the then-13-year-old Cyrus a household name.
