Lauren Conrad was born to the parents of James and Katherine Conrad. She has two younger siblings, Breanna Christine Conrad and Brandon James Conrad. Lauren lived with her parents in Laguna Beach throughout her childhood and high school years. During her senior year and Laguna Beach High School, MTV began to film Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. MTV was to follow the lives of Conrad including seven other Laguna Beach teens. The show made Lauren an overnight celebrity.
After graduation, she intended Academy of Art University in San Francisco to major in Fashion Design. Her interest in fashion design began at a very young age, when her neighbor taught her how to draw and make clothes for her Barbie. Here she met Heidi Montag at a freshman orientation. After one semester, Conrad left the University and moved back to her parents’ house. She then transferred to Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She began interning at Three Dots clothing line in early 2005.
In the summer of 2005, she moved into a Los Angeles apartment with Heidi Montag. She continued her studies at FIDM and started an internship at Teen Vogue. This led MTV to film her new reality series The Hills. MTV renewed The Hills for the second season, which filmed from 2006 through February of 2007. Throughout this period, Conrad’s and Montag’s friendship deteriorated due to Montag’s boyfriends Spencer Pratt. Costar Audrina Patridge replaced Montag as Conrad’s roommate after Montag moved in with Spencer.
In 2007, rumors sprung in Hollywood about a sex tape between Lauren and ex-boyfriend Jason Wahler. Rumor had it that Wahler was planning to sell a sex tape he supposedly made with Conrad when they were a couple. Conrad later stated that the rumor was false and there is no existence of the tape. She also blamed Heidi and Spencer for the rumors.
In January 2007, Conrad was named as the official spokesperson for Avon’s new line “mark”. She received two Teen Choice Awards in 2006 and 2007. She has also been featured on the cover of Teen Vogue, Seventeen, and Cosmo Girl magazines.
Did you know...
- In September 2007, Lauren launched her new clothing line called "The Lauren Conrad Collection."
- Lauren despises being called LC despite it being her nickname.
- In 2005, Lauren was voted AskMen.com's 'Laguna Beach Babe.'
- Lauren got the part on Laguna Beach after MTV scouts set up a table at her high school quadrangle and asked students to fill out application packages to star in their new reality show and took Polaroids of applying students.
- Lauren got a tattoo of her boyfriend Jason Wahler's first initial, J, but after they broke up, turned it into an "L" for her initial.
- Lauren was voted "Most Irresistible" in high school.
- Lauren's guilty pleasure is watching The Disney Channel.
- Lauren's first kiss was in 8th grade from a boy named Gary.
- Lauren doesn't own any closed-toe shoes.
- Lauren's younger sister, Breanna, is part of the season 3 cast of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.
