At times, Cyrus admitted that portraying Hannah Montana for so long made her question her own identity. She never felt she could fully be herself and didn’t really know how to while working on the show because doing so might have went against the image Disney wanted. In the 15th-anniversary Instagram note she wrote to the character of Hannah Montana, she also wrote, “[Y]ou held more of my identity in your glovette than I did in my bare hands.”
Portraying Hannah on the show also exposed her to unrealistic beauty standards. “From the time I was 11, it was, ‘You’re a pop star! That means you have to be blonde, and you have to have long hair, and you have to put on some glittery tight thing,’” she told Marie Claire. “Meanwhile, I’m this fragile little girl playing a 16-year-old in a wig and a ton of makeup.”
Cyrus noted that the concept of show made her think people only cared about her when she had the blonde wig on in her real life too. Without the wig, Cyrus felt,”I wasn’t a star anymore. That was drilled into my head, like without being Hannah Montana, no one cares about you,” Cyrus said on the “Rock This With Allison Hagendorf” podcast.
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