Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986) is an American television personality, celebutante, actress, author and fashion designer. She is known for her starring role on the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off series, The Hills, which at one point followed her personal and professional life as she pursued a career in the fashion industry. Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California to parents Jim and Kathy. She is the oldest of three children. Her younger siblings are Breanna and Brandon. In 2004, Conrad appeared on MTV Cribs, giving a tour of her Laguna Beach home. During Conrad's senior year of high school, she appeared in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County in which she agreed to have her life taped. Upon graduation in 2004, she attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for one semester along with her friend, Heidi Montag. During the second season of Laguna Beach, she returned home and began taking classes at a local community college before subsequently transferring to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. After the success of Laguna Beach, MTV developed The Hills, a spin-off series. The series originally documented the professional and personal lives of Lauren and her friends (Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, and Whitney Port) while living in Los Angeles, California. The first season premiered on MTV on May 31, 2006. At the time, Conrad was an intern at Teen Vogue while living with then-housemate Heidi Montag.Conrad is also working on launching a new fashion line, Paper Crown, and is scheduled to be in stores by fall 2011. The line is her third collection after The Lauren Conrad Collection and LC by Lauren Conrad.
Former MTV star Lauren Conrad is back on "The Hills" -- Beverly Hills -- because she just dropped $1.35 million on a swanky new condo in the wealthy L.A. neighborhood.The ex-reality star will be… READ MORE >
Lauren Conrad is sooooooooooo over the Hollywood pad where she lived on "The Hills" -- and now you can own her leftovers for a cool $2.25 MILLION. LC has listed her 3,009 square foot Spanish-style… READ MORE >
"Unwritten" singer Natasha Bedingfield, 28, and former "Hills" star Lauren Conrad, 24, both wore a lot of makeup to the same event in NYC on Monday.Question is ... READ MORE >
"The Hills" actresses Audrina Patridge, Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad kept it real for once by all showing up to the show's finale in Hollywood last night.Question is ... READ MORE >
Two women enter, one woman leaves. In a hypothetical cage match between Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad ... who ya got?Kristin seemed confident in her fighting skills after hitting up the gym… READ MORE >
Now that Lauren Conrad's no longer on "The Hills," she's wasting no time spilling the world's worst kept secret: The show's as fake as Heidi's chest.Conrad was on "The View" this morning, and when… READ MORE >
The claws are back out between "Laguna Beach" enemies celebrity Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad -- with Kristin cattily claiming if she joins "The Hills" next season, "I will do it better than… READ MORE >
One of the hottest parties in Vegas this weekend was the grand opening pool party at Wet Republic inside the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino -- and Lauren Conrad passed the time in a cabana, playing… READ MORE >
For only $11,000 a month, you too can have a place to invite your fake friends over for rehearsed conversations filled with real awkward pauses. LC's two-story, 3,000 sq. ft. "Hills" home in West… READ MORE >
There's a reason why BET had to come up with their own version of "The Hills" called "Baldwin Hills" -- not a single one of the main "characters" of LC's show is black.We asked her how it's… READ MORE >
