with other internet personalities[16] and in 2017, she started her own channel to talk about travel, Bagagem da Ana, but was unable to continue due to her routine at college and internship.
She became nationally known in 2018, after participating in the eighteenth season of Big Brother Brasil, coming in third place with 3.39% of the votes, behind Kaysar Dadour (39.33%) and Gleici Damasceno (57.28%).
[17] She entered the reality show with her father Ayrton Lima, who had tried to join the BBB for 15 years,[18] her mother Eva and her cousin Jorge, and after six days of coexistence, father and daughter were chosen by the public, with 23.84 % and 44.26% of the votes, respectively, to stay on the program and compete as if they were a single participant, something unprecedented in the program, as this dynamic had only happened previously on the reality show A Fazenda 7 with participants Pepê & Neném.
[19] Alongside Kaysar, Ana broke the record for the longest endurance test in the program's history, the contest lasted 42 hours and 58 minutes until it was interrupted by production for health and safety reasons.
At that time, rumors arose that Ana Clara was being considered to join the team of presenters of the program in a possible reformulation after the World Cup, and that she had auditioned for the soap opera Verão 90.
Still in 2018, she launched a makeup line in partnership with the Brazilian brand Miss Pink,[28] represented the book club of the publisher Intrinseca, which during the period was called Ana Clara + Intrínsecos and entered the list of the most watched Instagram Stories in Brazil, occupying 8th position.
[45][46][47] On May 10, 2021, she took over Bate-Papo No Limite, shown on Tuesdays after the live TV program on Gshow and Globoplay, where she interviews the eliminated participants in the reality show.
[48][49] At the end of the same month, Globo announced that Ana Clara would combine No Limite with The Voice Kids, as she would lead a musical reality web attraction for Globoplay.
[50] In November, she debuted on Canal Viva presenting the program É Tudo Novela!, a fictional reality show with notable characters from television drama, created to celebrate 70 years of soap operas in Brazil.
[54] The reporter recorded a brief appearance in the soap opera Cara e Coragem, playing herself in a sequence that simulated the recording of a commercial, but the scenes were removed by Rede Globo after controversy involving yellowface[55] 2024-present: Estrela da Casa On February 5, 2024, during BBB24, Ana Clara was announced live as presenter of Estrela da Casa, Globo's new music and confinement reality show, scheduled to debut in the second half of the year.
In the same year, she ran the campaign for the Outback restaurant with her Video Show colleague, Sophia Abrahão, which was broadcast online, and for Mastercard, shown on the internet and television, with Gleici Damasceno, Matheus Mazzafera, Luisa Sonza, Rayza Nicácio and Bruno da duo Bruninho and Davi.
In September 2020, she was a spokesperson for Disney Plus at the platform's arrival in Brazil, and for the launch of the professional dye brand Alfaparf Milano, participating in press releases with Marie Claire and Revista Quem.
She was an ambassador for the Intrínseca publishing house's Reading Club, which gained its new name during the period, working on publicity and reviewing books monthly on social media.