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BIOGRAPHY

Lauren Conrad
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Lauren Katherine Conrad, born February 1, 1986, often referred to as "L.C.", is an American reality television star and student.

Conrad is best known for her role in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills, the latter of which earned her a Teen Choice Award in 2006.

Conrad's father is an architect (designer of the Conrad family home) and her mother helps to manage his business. Lauren Conrad has a sister three years younger named Breanna (featured in Laguna Beach season three), and a brother six years younger named Brandon. According to sister Breanna's official MySpace profile, the Conrad family is Catholic.

Conrad lived with her parents in Laguna Beach throughout her childhood and high school years. In early February of 2004, her senior year at Laguna Beach High School, MTV began filming Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which followed the personal lives of Conrad and seven other Laguna Beach teens. The show made the introverted Conrad an overnight celebrity. She credits the television exposure with bringing her out of her shell, saying "I went from, 'You can't take a picture of me,' to it doesn't faze me to have five cameras in the room,". After graduation from high school, Conrad's new-found independence led her to Academy of Art University in San Francisco. According to Kaitlyn Healey, one of Conrad's closest friends since elementary school, it was a shock that Conrad went away to school because before Laguna Beach she was always "the most shy, reserved person;" the show "made her a completely different person."

Conrad entered Academy of Art University in the fall of 2004. She met Heidi Montag (Conrad's co-star in The Hills) at freshmen orientation and the two immediately became friends. After only one semester, Conrad left San Francisco and moved back to her parents' house. Conrad transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles and worked as an intern at Three Dots clothing company beginning in early 2005. She also briefly dated Jason Wahler, a Laguna Beach cast member. Conrad was featured on the second season of Laguna Beach, filmed over a period of approximately six months beginning in December of 2004.

In the summer of 2005 Conrad moved into a Los Angeles apartment with new roommate Montag. Conrad continued her studies at the Fashion Institute and started an internship at Teen Vogue. MTV began filming Conrad for a new reality series, The Hills, which was announced in the fall of 2005. Around that time Conrad resumed dating Wahler, who also moved to Los Angeles from Laguna Beach. When Teen Vogue offered Conrad an opportunity to spend the summer of 2006 working in Paris, France, she turned it down so that she could spend time with Wahler. Conrad and Wahler stayed together until the beginning of August 2006. Conrad acknowledged that the breakup with Wahler (described as her first love) was "the hardest thing [she has] ever done" because she "still wanted to be with him, but knew that [she] could not be." Conrad credited Montag with helping her get through the rough period following the split.

MTV renewed The Hills for a second season, which filmed from late summer of 2006 through February or March of 2007. Throughout that time the friendship between Conrad and Montag deteriorated, as Montag increasingly spent her time with new boyfriend Spencer Pratt. By March 2007 Audrina Patridge, another co-star on The Hills, replaced Montag as Conrad's roommate. As of the spring of 2007, Conrad continues to attend the Fashion Institute and intern at Teen Vogue.

Conrad has been featured on two reality television series on MTV: Laguna Beach and The Hills. She also had a cameo role as herself in the film Epic Movie.