As a kid, Noah Cyrus didn’t desire Hannah Montana’s dual identity; the Tennessee native only wanted the “normal” half of Hannah’s life. “I had a really hard time being a part of a public family … it wasn’t exactly my first choice,” she told Rolling Stone. At age 2, she appeared on her dad’s series “Doc,” so, clearly, that wasn’t exactly a decision she could have made on her own. However, she continued acting when she got a bit older. She made cameos in “Hannah Montana,” played a trick-or-treater in the 2007 direct-to-DVD movie “Mostly Ghostly,” and voiced the titular character in the English redubbing of the 2008 animated movie “Ponyo.”
Noah didn’t just struggle with the irresistible pull of the entertainment industry; her sister’s popularity among her age group made going to school a drag. “I wanted to blend in. I just wanted to be Noah, not Hannah Montana’s sister,” she told The Standard.
Unfortunately, internet users were coming under the thrall of celebrity bloggers and social media around that time. When Noah was nine, Perez Hilton shamed her for acting older than her age by dancing and lip-syncing to the Kesha song “TiK ToK” on YouTube. “Way to promote big sister Miley, lil Cyrus,” he wrote. Noah also discovered that Instagrammers were making cruel remarks about her appearance when she joined the platform at age 11. “It made me look in a mirror in the morning and cry,” she told The Standard.
