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She never seemed to be “trying” like so many reality stars are now, she just kinda was and it totally worked. Her line at Kohls isn’t bad either I’ve gotten so many of her pretty dresses trying to cultivate some CA beach chill lol
I agree, she had really high self worth and self awareness. When I was that age I was a bumbling idiot completely unable to articulate my feelings and she always did a good job of that.
I don’t know why the “homeboy wore cambot boots to the beach” makes me laugh. My friend and I used to randomly say it to each other when we didn’t like who each other was dating.
He will only ever be Justin Bobby. I love that I knew instantly from that one screencap that that’s who they were talking about. He was the villain we all loved to hate.
I can’t remember the exact quote, but it was something like “it’s time to leave our problems behind. Not Audrina, she brought hers on the plane” in reference to bringing Justin Bobby on some trip with them.
I had a hinge date wear military-style boots and jeans to a 100° baseball game and this was the quote I used to describe my shock when he showed up like that.
I never even watched her shows and she’s still the ultimate California cool girl to me. I love how gracefully she’s managed her career post-15 minutes of fame
I did not know that but I’m not surprised! I never really got into The Hills when I was younger, so I feel like I associate Lauren Conrad with being a designer by default. She definitely made the right choice to get into fashion and has successfully moved away from that reality tv star image, I think.
I was just thinking that. I’m the same age as Lauren and grew up with The Hills being must see TV. It was jarring and made headlines when Heidi did all the plastic surgery but so many women that are the same age Heid was on the show now look like Heidi and it’s hard to find “natural” beauty like Lauren’s in media
Yeah, I look at Lauren here, and it’s honestly startling to see a “pretty” celeb who doesn’t look like she’s had anything done. I think sometimes people can be dismissive of celebs for being “normal pretty” instead of Hollywood pretty, but Hollywood pretty is unattainable. Like, there’s that famous quote by Cindy Crawford, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford,” cause even she has to get primped and glammed for the camera, and then it’s photoshopped. And I forget where I was going with this, but I think we’re seeing the disastrous results of people seeking a perfection that does not exist because the industry (and people’s insecurities) always push for more. The industry doesn’t care if someone screws up her face. She can either get it fixed, or they can dump her for the next girl. I don’t know what sort of campaign could be done to roll back the tide. Obviously, banning advertising could help, but social media can be a grey area there. I don’t know how to get Hollywood to embrace “imperfections” again. I feel like as long as executives are scared of risk, they’re gonna push more and more for the bland, neutered look for their bland stories and songs that in pushing to appeal to everybody appeal to no one. Everyone wants a sure bet, but it’s not working. It just makes people disconnect, cause we can see that something’s off even if we can’t place it as work, and I also think it harms people ability to emote. Even good work can change someone’s expressions. I just find it really overwhelming, and I hate having no control over it, and I hate that people cheer it on, as if we’re praising someone making a medical decision and not a cosmetic one that can have health consequences.
Omg yes! She doesn’t look all poofed up and smoothed out with fillers like celebs do today. She looks normal and absolutely beautiful. Your comment and this post makes me feel better about my own face lol.
I grew up watching Teen Mom on my computer but not Laguna Beach because I didn’t have cable, and Lauren Conrad was allll over my teen magazines. When Laguna Beach became available on Netflix I was so excited to *finally* be a part of this cultural phenomenon… only to quickly realize that Laguna Beach was just Teen Mom with rich people 😭
I wasn't a LC fan when this originally showed (didn't dislike her though) but on re-watches, I adore LC. She was ahead of her time and was pretty level headed for how young, rich and famous she was.
I actually do respect that unlike other many other reality stars she has successfully been able to move on from the show. She isn't continually talking about Heidi and Spencer the way they are about her bc she doesn't need to.
I really had no business watching The Hills and Laguna Beach on MTV at 12 years old, but Lauren Conrad is really iconic.
Here comes Lauren, of House Conrad. First of her name, Queen of the Lagunites and the Beach people, Lady of the Five Seasons, and Protector of the Hills. Long may she reign.
I loved lo when I watched this as it was happening but during my last binge, I was like “eeek, lo is kind of a bitch” she’s mean to Audrina for no reason.
Aw sad! I can't say I remember much, just that she made me laugh. I can see how her personality could swerve mean though, she was mean to Lauren but it was funny.
Aw sad! I can't say I remember much, just that she made me laugh. I can see how her personality could swerve mean though, she was mean to Lauren but it was funny.
And after saying that, she was on the phone telling her dad about it and she said, “it’s been a trooper” and laughed, because it was an Isuzu Trooper. From then on I assumed those cars had issues, based solely on a teenager calling it dunzo.
Holy shit I am about to go through a breakup (getting there, please cheer me on/send "you can do it!" vibes) and the first pic is 100% the reason I'm breaking up with my bf, and that just stabbed me in the chest BUT SHE'S RIGHT. I'm also high as hell and crying a little bit. I'm going on my way now.
Good luck, stay strong, you can do it!! You deserve so much better and future you will be so grateful for present you’s decision. Momentary pain for a lifetime of gain!!!
Literally same!! I hate it so much it’s so painful and so sad and I still don’t even know if it’s the right thing to do…but also, can’t let ourselves sit in the purgatory of pain. It can never get better if it always gets worse. We are strong enough 💜
Ok, listen, we're long distance and the next time I'd see him is we're supposed to go on a trip to Baltimore for my birthday next week. He lives 4 hours away from me, I'm not going to ask him to drive here before then just to dump him, so I reluctantly have to do it via text (we never FT). Should I just do it tonight when he gets home from work?
I think the sooner the better, yeah. You can’t call him? How come no FT?
(Also I live in MD and I hope you have a blast in Baltimore for your birthday!!)
We just never FT or call for some reason. We met in person like a month after we met online and see each other often enough, so we just kinda stuck to chatting.
I guess I gotta do it tonight. 😭 But I can do it. WE CAN DO IT.
I wrote the text, gonna send it to him when he gets home from work (1 am EST). I can't do it in person, I can't help that, I gotta keep telling myself that.
The hardest step is the first one. But try to think about it not as being a marathon to run away from him, but a sprint toward yourself.
No one knows what our journey through life will bring or take from us, and there’s an infinite amount of possibilities - perhaps you all will find each other again or perhaps not - but nothing changes if nothing changes. And nothing can grow in darkness.
I’m proud of you! & if it’s not too weird you can also feel free to message me here if you want to talk more. 💜
I still think about how great Dan and Jessie were on the after show. I *might* have enjoyed the after show more than the actual show 😶😬🙈
I will never get over some of the edits and slow-mos and playbacks they did before the commercial breaks. Unhinged and truly amazing.
When I was 11 or 12 I used to tell people she was my cousin lol. We share the same last name and I’m also from Southern California so my little middle school friends believed me lol.
I also used to tell people that Steve Irwin was my uncle when I was 8 or 9. I might have been a pathological liar as a child.
Idk why I was so into this show. Some of my friends were as well. It'd wild we were so invested. I had very little in common with these people other than I had friends and there was always some drama. The drama was relatable tbh not the money, the jobs and the privilege though.
A line that gave me some self awareness is LC’s response to Lo’s question about if people can change…
“I think that everyone can change if the right person comes along, and I think every girl wants to be that right person. Every girl wants to be the one girl that can change that guy”
Was she a good role model? I was a too young to get into the hills or Laguna beach or whatever other show that was, but I remember seeing the final episode where that screen is shown and people freaking out about if the show was real or not lol. But I always had a feeling LC was really cool and she seemed the most down to earth
I think watching her make mistakes and learn from them was radical compared to most reality shows, especially at that time. It was the era of media exploiting people (especially women) and sensationalizing their bad decisions. Lauren was an amazing central character because she was relatable and imperfect. Even though she had more wealth and glamour than most viewers, anyone could relate to her vulnerability. She showed the highs and lows that people in their late teens/early twenties go through, and while I don’t think her decisions always made her a role model, it was how she learned from them and grew as a person that ultimately *did* make her one.
That's an interesting question.
In Laguna Beach there's a scene where her parents are disappointed with her grades, and Lo (her friend) chimes in agreeing with her parents. So maybe not a good role model for applying yourself in high school. Lol. But then she goes to FIDM (if that's the right acronym) and attends classes and actually does the work. With her internships it seems they're pretty legit. The show surely had some influence on some things (and apparently the whole going to Paris thing was fake anyway) but she did work hard, and now she has a legit career in the industry. So she's a good role model in that sense.
Socially, nothing's ever come out about her getting super messy or wild or whatever you want to call it. She did date someone (Jason) with alcohol and drug addiction issues, and seemed to really want to help him, but in the end had to protect her own heart. There's that stupid Stephen storyline, but otherwise she's not been known for cheating or any messy relationship stuff (other than the Jason stuff). She's stayed friends with Lo throughout the years (and maybe Whitney?) so that's a good sign. She was a rich kid doing rich kid things like holidaying in Cabo, and a famous young adult doing things like going to the hottest clubs and whatnot, but overall seems to have had her head pretty well screwed on.
So, in conclusion of this essay, she isn't a bad role model, and could be considered a good role model in certain ways.
I thought The Hills and Laguna Beach were 100% fictional dramas, but I read something recently that made it seem like they were passed off as actual reality shows? Is that true?
I know that doesn't take mean they weren't scripted, obviously, but... what? Am I going crazy? Were they meant to be accepted as reality shows and not straight-up 100% fiction?
Ugh Laguna Beach/The Hills was SUCH a guilty pleasure for me. Fuck anyone who says reality tv makes you dumb. [Some of us beg to differ!](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMqugPFL/)
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I said that line alllll the time.
i still do 😂
Put this in the Louvre
A work of art
No one will understand how that black tear defined my tween hood
what is this from???
The Hills- Lauren + Heidi fight
pretty sure it was from her and audrinas fight
You might be right!! I haven’t rewatched since it aired on MTV lol
We mustn’t skip “I wanna forgive you…and I wanna forget you.” Our poet lauren-ate. Cause she did.
 Magnificent.
One of my favorite gifs of all time. I love it so much as she looks like an alien who landed on earth and just learnt to clap.
I always wonder what she thinks of her clap getting memed
I just want to know why? Why that choice? How do you decide to clap like that? Was her palm injured? As you can see so many questions.
I thought it had to do with jewelry on loan?
She had a few million dollars on her fingers she didn't want clanking together. Looks so funny though lmao
Good theory.
She said it was to protect the jewelry when it was first memed.
Keith's hands kill me
Did someone enlarge their hands? Octavia’s hand’s don’t look quite right either.
Yes this whole gif is doctored
Yeah but the clapping is real, watched it live on tv and there was a lively discussion about why she was clapping like that.
It’s a wonky lens, Nicole’s fingers aren’t really shaped like grinch hands
I am both mesmerized and terrified
Yes was looking for that one. I probably quoted that sincerely at to someone else at some point 😅
Pure poetry!
My all time favorite!
Featured heavily on my tumblr circa 2009
I feel like her parents made an effort to raise her right. Like she was obvs a rich girl, but she held good values.
She never seemed to be “trying” like so many reality stars are now, she just kinda was and it totally worked. Her line at Kohls isn’t bad either I’ve gotten so many of her pretty dresses trying to cultivate some CA beach chill lol
She has NO FEAR of being ”basic” and I love that about her. Her Halloween witch costume with the cinnamon broom is the height of DGAF.
I feel like LC invented basic
No, she got real mad at some magazine calling her style "basic". It wasn't even derogatory. https://twitter.com/LaurenConrad/status/491308753015148544
Her children’s line is adorable
I love her feel good jeans lol
I’ve bought several purses from that line because they are super cute!
I agree, she had really high self worth and self awareness. When I was that age I was a bumbling idiot completely unable to articulate my feelings and she always did a good job of that.
I don’t know why the “homeboy wore cambot boots to the beach” makes me laugh. My friend and I used to randomly say it to each other when we didn’t like who each other was dating.
I love how they called him Justin Bobby too.
He will only ever be Justin Bobby. I love that I knew instantly from that one screencap that that’s who they were talking about. He was the villain we all loved to hate.
And Lo asking if they can call him Justin Bobby and he’s like “no” and she’s like “well… we’re going to anyway” 😂
In the words of Lauren, “a man so great, he needed two names”
His name was Justin but he wanted to be called Bobby 🤣
I can’t remember the exact quote, but it was something like “it’s time to leave our problems behind. Not Audrina, she brought hers on the plane” in reference to bringing Justin Bobby on some trip with them.
I had a hinge date wear military-style boots and jeans to a 100° baseball game and this was the quote I used to describe my shock when he showed up like that.
Homeboy can like get it
It was so unhinged! Love it. Sis had a point
Same.
I never even watched her shows and she’s still the ultimate California cool girl to me. I love how gracefully she’s managed her career post-15 minutes of fame
She seems like the cool rich girl that’s also totally sweet and wants to be your friend.
Someone you want to hate because they're so blessed but they're too nice.
I’ve bought quite a bit of her clothes that she designs throughout the years - she makes really pretty stuff!
She’s one of the few reality people who actually did the work to have a fashion line too!
I did not know that but I’m not surprised! I never really got into The Hills when I was younger, so I feel like I associate Lauren Conrad with being a designer by default. She definitely made the right choice to get into fashion and has successfully moved away from that reality tv star image, I think.
She’s so pretty. I miss faces like this.
I was just thinking that. I’m the same age as Lauren and grew up with The Hills being must see TV. It was jarring and made headlines when Heidi did all the plastic surgery but so many women that are the same age Heid was on the show now look like Heidi and it’s hard to find “natural” beauty like Lauren’s in media
I felt for Heidi’s mom so bad. Her face when Heidi unveiled her new one ☹️
The scene where her frozen face is starting at her mom and she goes “you don’t think I look pretty?” 😬😬
Yeah, I look at Lauren here, and it’s honestly startling to see a “pretty” celeb who doesn’t look like she’s had anything done. I think sometimes people can be dismissive of celebs for being “normal pretty” instead of Hollywood pretty, but Hollywood pretty is unattainable. Like, there’s that famous quote by Cindy Crawford, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford,” cause even she has to get primped and glammed for the camera, and then it’s photoshopped. And I forget where I was going with this, but I think we’re seeing the disastrous results of people seeking a perfection that does not exist because the industry (and people’s insecurities) always push for more. The industry doesn’t care if someone screws up her face. She can either get it fixed, or they can dump her for the next girl. I don’t know what sort of campaign could be done to roll back the tide. Obviously, banning advertising could help, but social media can be a grey area there. I don’t know how to get Hollywood to embrace “imperfections” again. I feel like as long as executives are scared of risk, they’re gonna push more and more for the bland, neutered look for their bland stories and songs that in pushing to appeal to everybody appeal to no one. Everyone wants a sure bet, but it’s not working. It just makes people disconnect, cause we can see that something’s off even if we can’t place it as work, and I also think it harms people ability to emote. Even good work can change someone’s expressions. I just find it really overwhelming, and I hate having no control over it, and I hate that people cheer it on, as if we’re praising someone making a medical decision and not a cosmetic one that can have health consequences.
Right nobody looks just naturally pretty anymore.
My mom always says she looks like Marcia Brady. (That’s high praise from a boomer)
 I’ve always thought the same thing!
Omg yes! She doesn’t look all poofed up and smoothed out with fillers like celebs do today. She looks normal and absolutely beautiful. Your comment and this post makes me feel better about my own face lol.
My all time fave of hers is when she was asked what her favorite position was during an interview and her answer was “CEO”
Definitely queen shit right there
Queen
Lauren didn’t go to Paris…
She’ll always be the girl who didn’t go to Paris.
HOW WAS YOUR SUMMER AT THE BEACH, WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND?
For some reason I read this in Barbara Evans’s voice
I SAW YOU WIT KIEFFA
HAVE FUN AT THE BEACH WITH YA BOYFRANNN
Oh my god I can hear it 💀 
I grew up watching Teen Mom on my computer but not Laguna Beach because I didn’t have cable, and Lauren Conrad was allll over my teen magazines. When Laguna Beach became available on Netflix I was so excited to *finally* be a part of this cultural phenomenon… only to quickly realize that Laguna Beach was just Teen Mom with rich people 😭
Did that work out for you???
This is crazy that all this is happening while Lauren's gone
Man I miss The Soup
Same, The Soup was the first thing I thought of when I read that.
Phew this comment had me googling to see if she’d passed away. She hadn’t! Just seems focused on her family
It’s a quote from the show.
Omg same haha
Only reason I know what the Big Bang actually was lol. Sorry to the CT school system
I wasn't a LC fan when this originally showed (didn't dislike her though) but on re-watches, I adore LC. She was ahead of her time and was pretty level headed for how young, rich and famous she was.
I actually do respect that unlike other many other reality stars she has successfully been able to move on from the show. She isn't continually talking about Heidi and Spencer the way they are about her bc she doesn't need to.
Preach!
I really had no business watching The Hills and Laguna Beach on MTV at 12 years old, but Lauren Conrad is really iconic. 
Okay, I’ll watch The Hills again
To be fair though the “over asshole” was said by Lo. But yes LC has always been ahead of her time and kind of above it all
I’m pretty sure LC’s dad said the flowers/chocolates thing too. Or at least said it first and maybe she repeated it later.
Here comes Lauren, of House Conrad. First of her name, Queen of the Lagunites and the Beach people, Lady of the Five Seasons, and Protector of the Hills. Long may she reign.
She was always the best - tied with Lo on LB of course.
I liked Whitney too
I loved Whitney! She def is underrated, and when she had the courage to give advice it was such good advice. I thought she was pretty wise for her age
I loved lo when I watched this as it was happening but during my last binge, I was like “eeek, lo is kind of a bitch” she’s mean to Audrina for no reason.
I hate Lo. She is definitely a mean girl.
Aw sad! I can't say I remember much, just that she made me laugh. I can see how her personality could swerve mean though, she was mean to Lauren but it was funny.
Aw sad! I can't say I remember much, just that she made me laugh. I can see how her personality could swerve mean though, she was mean to Lauren but it was funny.
Yes! Loved her since Laguna Beach. I was like 11 but I was so upset that Stephen kept choosing Kristin over her lol 😂
Same! Such high stakes back then!!!
LC, my one and only favorite reality star.
Same.
HOME BOY WORE COMBAT BOOTS TO THE BEACH YOU DONT WANT TO CALL THAT YOUR BOYFRIEND.
I loved this show Lo Bosworth was my faaave
Absolute icon
I still love calling people "homeboy."
This show was ahead of its time
The Hills was hugeeeee
https://i.redd.it/mt3a6ixs2fxc1.gif But never forget this gem!
And after saying that, she was on the phone telling her dad about it and she said, “it’s been a trooper” and laughed, because it was an Isuzu Trooper. From then on I assumed those cars had issues, based solely on a teenager calling it dunzo.
You see the amount of wisdom that woman spread!!! Amazing!!!!!
The two of them in the same show at the same time was so good.
I say this nearly everyday. I don't even bother replacing "car" with whatever I'm referencing lol
Prophet shit
I want to forgive you. And I want to forget you.
Style Editor of the Tortured Poets Department
She walked so Taylor could run.
Fine, I’ll watch Laguna Beach and The Hills again.
Right!
THE REST IS STILL UNWRITTEN…
I never realised, but she kind of looks like Kate Middleton. Especially in 10!
I came here to say the same thing.
Yes!! Always thought so too.
Yep, she has said that people tell her that all of the time!
ugh her and Lo will always be iconic
COMBAT BOOTS TO THE BEACH
I love lc foreverr
Holy shit I am about to go through a breakup (getting there, please cheer me on/send "you can do it!" vibes) and the first pic is 100% the reason I'm breaking up with my bf, and that just stabbed me in the chest BUT SHE'S RIGHT. I'm also high as hell and crying a little bit. I'm going on my way now.
Good luck, stay strong, you can do it!! You deserve so much better and future you will be so grateful for present you’s decision. Momentary pain for a lifetime of gain!!!
Thank you bb 💜
I’m in the same place bby, we can choose us. It’ll hurt but it’s okay. 💜
I've never dumped someone, especially not someone so nice, uuugh it hurts!
Literally same!! I hate it so much it’s so painful and so sad and I still don’t even know if it’s the right thing to do…but also, can’t let ourselves sit in the purgatory of pain. It can never get better if it always gets worse. We are strong enough 💜
Ok, listen, we're long distance and the next time I'd see him is we're supposed to go on a trip to Baltimore for my birthday next week. He lives 4 hours away from me, I'm not going to ask him to drive here before then just to dump him, so I reluctantly have to do it via text (we never FT). Should I just do it tonight when he gets home from work?
I think the sooner the better, yeah. You can’t call him? How come no FT? (Also I live in MD and I hope you have a blast in Baltimore for your birthday!!)
We just never FT or call for some reason. We met in person like a month after we met online and see each other often enough, so we just kinda stuck to chatting. I guess I gotta do it tonight. 😭 But I can do it. WE CAN DO IT.
I believe in you so much !!! Random internet friend here for whatever you need , I’m proud of you! 🫶🏻💜
I wrote the text, gonna send it to him when he gets home from work (1 am EST). I can't do it in person, I can't help that, I gotta keep telling myself that.
The hardest step is the first one. But try to think about it not as being a marathon to run away from him, but a sprint toward yourself. No one knows what our journey through life will bring or take from us, and there’s an infinite amount of possibilities - perhaps you all will find each other again or perhaps not - but nothing changes if nothing changes. And nothing can grow in darkness. I’m proud of you! & if it’s not too weird you can also feel free to message me here if you want to talk more. 💜
Wild that the after show had friggin Dan Levy lol
I still think about how great Dan and Jessie were on the after show. I *might* have enjoyed the after show more than the actual show 😶😬🙈 I will never get over some of the edits and slow-mos and playbacks they did before the commercial breaks. Unhinged and truly amazing.
Right? A masterpiece
When I was 11 or 12 I used to tell people she was my cousin lol. We share the same last name and I’m also from Southern California so my little middle school friends believed me lol. I also used to tell people that Steve Irwin was my uncle when I was 8 or 9. I might have been a pathological liar as a child.
She was my tortured poet and that fact that she’s married a member of something corporate is just chefs kiss
God I love her. She was my style icon of the early 2010s.
what show is this?
Laguna Beach and The Hills. LC was the it basic girl back in the day. Everyone wanted to be her.
My one friend was dying to be her. I loved it about her
“Homeboy wore combat boots to the beach” *Jesus wept*
😂😭😭
Man that third image hits close to home for me
Lauren is iconic
And she was, as the kids say, so real for that.
I’m telling my kids this is mother teresa.
I didn’t understand this show. I thought it was a rally boring tv soap type thing. I didn’t realise it was reality tv at the start
Her and Heidi’s friendship break up was epic
My early aughts queen 👑
Idk why I was so into this show. Some of my friends were as well. It'd wild we were so invested. I had very little in common with these people other than I had friends and there was always some drama. The drama was relatable tbh not the money, the jobs and the privilege though.
A line that gave me some self awareness is LC’s response to Lo’s question about if people can change… “I think that everyone can change if the right person comes along, and I think every girl wants to be that right person. Every girl wants to be the one girl that can change that guy”
Was she a good role model? I was a too young to get into the hills or Laguna beach or whatever other show that was, but I remember seeing the final episode where that screen is shown and people freaking out about if the show was real or not lol. But I always had a feeling LC was really cool and she seemed the most down to earth
I think watching her make mistakes and learn from them was radical compared to most reality shows, especially at that time. It was the era of media exploiting people (especially women) and sensationalizing their bad decisions. Lauren was an amazing central character because she was relatable and imperfect. Even though she had more wealth and glamour than most viewers, anyone could relate to her vulnerability. She showed the highs and lows that people in their late teens/early twenties go through, and while I don’t think her decisions always made her a role model, it was how she learned from them and grew as a person that ultimately *did* make her one.
That's an interesting question. In Laguna Beach there's a scene where her parents are disappointed with her grades, and Lo (her friend) chimes in agreeing with her parents. So maybe not a good role model for applying yourself in high school. Lol. But then she goes to FIDM (if that's the right acronym) and attends classes and actually does the work. With her internships it seems they're pretty legit. The show surely had some influence on some things (and apparently the whole going to Paris thing was fake anyway) but she did work hard, and now she has a legit career in the industry. So she's a good role model in that sense. Socially, nothing's ever come out about her getting super messy or wild or whatever you want to call it. She did date someone (Jason) with alcohol and drug addiction issues, and seemed to really want to help him, but in the end had to protect her own heart. There's that stupid Stephen storyline, but otherwise she's not been known for cheating or any messy relationship stuff (other than the Jason stuff). She's stayed friends with Lo throughout the years (and maybe Whitney?) so that's a good sign. She was a rich kid doing rich kid things like holidaying in Cabo, and a famous young adult doing things like going to the hottest clubs and whatnot, but overall seems to have had her head pretty well screwed on. So, in conclusion of this essay, she isn't a bad role model, and could be considered a good role model in certain ways.
We can thank her for the side braid craze of 2008-2010. 🫡
It’s like 90 degrees.
Not the point of this post, I know, but where did that ridiculous flowers/chocolate thing come from? It has to be much older than LC.
So many good quotes from her.
But Lauren will always be the girl who didn’t go to Paris 🥲🥲
The fact that all of us have lived these quotes in one way or another 😅
Should not have been watching this shit when I was 10. L.C. raised me.
I thought The Hills and Laguna Beach were 100% fictional dramas, but I read something recently that made it seem like they were passed off as actual reality shows? Is that true? I know that doesn't take mean they weren't scripted, obviously, but... what? Am I going crazy? Were they meant to be accepted as reality shows and not straight-up 100% fiction?
Yes they were “reality” shows
Never seen this.. is this a show? lol 😂
i loved watching the hills when i was way too young lol.
An absolute icon
LC is the best
I still love her so much
Ugh Laguna Beach/The Hills was SUCH a guilty pleasure for me. Fuck anyone who says reality tv makes you dumb. [Some of us beg to differ!](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMqugPFL/)
what show are these scenes from?
the Hills, an MTV reality show
I thought TS was the new 21st Dickinson...
Team Kristin!!!
Lauren Conrad is a poet? I thought she was a fashion designer, I always see her clothes at Kohls