Miley Cyrus Reveals Shocking Work Schedule at Age 12 During Hannah Montana Era

Miley Cyrus is reflecting on her childhood and the earliest days of her career — the good, the bad and the Hannah Montana of it all — in a new TikTok series tied to her new single “Used to Be Young." However, one revelation in particular has left us absolutely floored.

In one of the latest installments in the series, Cyrus revisits a daily schedule from her Hannah days, starting with a 5:30 A.M. hair and makeup session before an unbelievably packed day. “I was probably like 12 or 13,” Cyrus says, proceeding to read off the seemingly endless list of press engagements.

Her typical workday at the time was non-stop, go-go-go action; in one day alone, Cyrus lists off nine interviews, a meeting with editors, and two photoshoots. The whole thing starts again the next day before she flies home and back to the Hannah set. “I'm a lot of things, but lazy ain't one of them,” Cyrus says dryly, sending kudos to her younger self for that wild work schedule. “I do think this girl deserves a little endless summer vacation.” Um, same.

The singer's trip down memory lane also includes revisiting her first solo album, Meet Miley Cyrus, which was paired with a Hannah Montana album. “The smartest thing to do was to put it on a double disk… I wasn't valued at the time like Hannah was," she explains. "The voice behind Hannah was always me.”

That album marked Cyrus's breakthrough as a songwriter. “The Meet Miley Cyrus record was really where I started writing my own songs as a solo artist,” she said. “I was working with a producer in Malibu that lived in a house in Ramirez Canyon, which I would've never known 15 years later I would be living in that house, which would eventually burn down.” (The house in question is the Malibu home she shared with her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, which was destroyed during the 2018 California wildfires.)

Cyrus also takes a look back at moments from her childhood, including her father's country career and her life on a tour bus. If you've followed Cyrus since her Disney debut, it's a wonderful and introspective look at the full scope of her one-of-a-kind career.