Tana Mongeau On ‘Brand Safe,’ ‘Cancelled,’ & Hannah Montana

Tana Mongeau has two words for her reinvention: brand safe.

We’re chatting while trying to get comfy on a leather couch in the lobby of a Central Valley studio in Los Angeles, on a Wednesday in March, right after her photo shoot. She’s wearing a green jacket, her own Tarte lip kit, a white activewear top, light-wash jeans, and a silver Lucky cherries belt buckle her stylist picked out — which she loved so much that she considered buying it for herself, before checking its expensive price tag.

The 27-year-old has a new outlook on her career, fame, and, well, life. After a decade in the public eye, the content creator and podcaster, known for her unfiltered story times and wild nights in L.A., is setting boundaries around what she puts online. “I cared so much about money and all the wrong things. I didn’t care why people were viewing, and I didn’t care what they were saying,” she says of her early days in the spotlight. “I thought success was any attention, whether it was good or bad.”

Her fresh start all began with getting Ca...