Heidi Montag

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Heidi Montag

Heidi Montag on The Hills
Born: October, 1986 (age 20)
Colorado, United States
Occupation: Reality television celebrity and event planner
Website: Official Heidi Montag

Heidi Montag (born October, 1986), a cast member from the MTV reality television show The Hills, is an event planner and an aspiring singer and actor.

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[edit] Biography

Heidi Montag grew up in Crested Butte, Colorado, where she lived from the age of three.[1] Her parents, Darlene and Tim Egelhoff, own a popular restaurant in the area, called the Timberline.[1] Her mother, once a ski racing coach, is also a real estate agent.[2] Heidi is the middle Montag child, having both an older sister, Holly, and a younger brother, Sky.[3]

After high school, Montag moved to San Francisco, California to study fashion at the Academy of Art University.[4] At freshman orientation, she met Lauren Conrad, star of MTV's Laguna Beach, and the two became close friends.[5] Montag first appeared on MTV during season two of Laguna Beach when she was staying with the Conrad family for the summer.[6] Montag was seen on several episodes acting as best friend to Lauren Conrad and secondary cast member Jennifer Bunney; she was also friendly with Dieter Schmitz, Kristin Cavallari, Alex Hooser, and Stephen Coletti all of whom she knew from a trip with Lauren to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.[6]

Both Montag and Conrad left the Academy of the Arts and transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, sharing an apartment in Los Angeles, California.[7] In the summer of 2005, MTV began filming the lives of the roommates for Conrad's Laguna Beach spin-off reality show The Hills.[8] Montag left the Fashion Institute in autumn of 2005 when she was hired as an intern at Bolthouse Productions.[7] According to Montag, she dropped out because she did not find the school challenging.[4] Within two years Montag was promoted to from intern to event planner at Bolthouse, and she has no plans to return to fashion school.

Montag began dating Jordan Eubanks in 2005 and their relationship was featured on season one of The Hills. The couple celebrated their six month anniversary in episode six.[7] Montag received a Chihuahua puppy from Eubanks as a Christmas present that year.[4] Caring for the dog, which Montag named Bella, was too much work; within a year Montag gave the dog away to a friend. Montag broke off her relationship with Eubanks in the spring of 2006, a move she has described as "the best decision of [her] life" and something she should have done much sooner.[9]

Since the summer of 2006, Montag has been dating Spencer Pratt.[7] Pratt, friend and manager of Brody Jenner, met Montag through Kristin Cavallari who was then dating Jenner. Season two of The Hills, currently airing on MTV, focused on Heidi's relationship with Pratt. On episode two, Montag led him to believe that she was pregnant (although she had already gotten a negative result on a home pregnancy test). He was supportive about the hypothetical pregnancy, which likely led Montag to author a blog on her MySpace page on July 29, 2006 entitled, "BEST boyfriend EVER!!!!!" Later on season two of The Hills, Montag moved out of her apartment with steady roommate Conrad to live with Spencer.[7]

According to an interview with Montag in February of 2007, she no longer spends as much time going out to clubs; she has been "keeping a low profile and being responsible."[10] As of March, 2007, Montag has given up drinking alcohol.[11] Montag reportedly visited a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon on March 20 to undergo a breast enlargement (which the doctor was doing free of charge in exchange for publicity on the upcoming season three of The Hills), but decided to forgo the operation because she "didn't think it was a good message to send to her fans."[12] However, on April 2, 2007, Montag underwent breast augmentation surgery, performed by the doctor she visited in March.[13] She reportedly had a rhinoplasty operation at the same time.[14]

[edit] Career

Montag's reality TV career began with a few appearances on season two of MTV's Laguna Beach.[6] Her friendship with Conrad led to a featured role in The Hills,[15] which premiered on May 31, 2006.[16]

Heidi signed on with Pratt's INNOVATORmanagement company.[11][17] As of February, 2007, she is working on recording an album with producer David Foster (Jenner's step-father).[18] She describes the sound as "very fun, fresh, sexy . . . the Pussycat Dolls-meets-Gwen Stefani, with a dose of Fergie."[18] Montag danced as a child, so she plans to do "a lot of performing" in connection with the album. Additionally, she indicates that a lot of her songs "will be very sexual."[18] On her personal MySpace page, Montag listed herself as one her favorite recording artists.[19]

Montag has discussed taking acting classes, saying she hopes The Hills will help her jumpstart a film career.[5] She has expressed a desire to have appearances in "some movies" in addition to "a couple of hit albums" in her lifetime.[15]

Saturday Night Magazine featured an interview with Montag and a multi-page photo spread in February of 2007.[10] In March of 2007, Stuff magazine featured Montag in a revealing eight-page pictorial and an online video. She talked to US Magazine about the Stuff photo shoot, saying she was nervous for her first sexy photo spread.[18] However, Montag was "excited to show a side of [herself] that people don't get a chance to see just watching The Hills."

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Husted, Bill. "Getting real in LA", The Denver Post, 2006-05-24. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  2. ^ Egelhoff, Darlene (2007). About Me (html). CrestedButteAgent.com. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  3. ^ Egelhoff, Darlene (2007). Home Tours (html). CrestedButteAgent.com. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  4. ^ a b c Garfinkel, Jacki. "Interview with Heidi of MTV's The Hills", mediaVillage, 2006-08-02. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  5. ^ a b Ogunnaike, Lola. "Blond Ambition Comes in Flats or Heels", The New York Times, 2006-06-11. Retrieved on March 25, 2007.
  6. ^ a b c Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Coletti, Talan Torriero, Lauren Conrad, Taylor Cole, Alex Murrel, Jessica Smith, Jason Wahler, et al. Laguna Beach: The Complete Second Season [DVD]. Laguna Beach, California: Paramount/MTV.
  7. ^ a b c d e Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, Jason Wahler, et al. The Hills: The Complete First Season [DVD]. Los Angeles, California: Paramount/MTV.
  8. ^ Rogers, Steve. "'Laguna Beach' star Lauren Conrad gets own 'The Hills' MTV spinoff", Reality TV World, 2005-11-14. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
  9. ^ "Heidi Montag Is on Top of the World", Stuff Magazine, 2007-02-07. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  10. ^ a b Bates, Elijah. "Heidi Montag from The Hills", Saturday Night Magazine, 2007-02-26. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  11. ^ a b Sicha, Choire. "The Sunday Conversation: She helps keep The Hills alive", The Los Angeles Times, 2007-03-04. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  12. ^ "The Hills", In Touch Weekly, 2007-04-03. Retrieved on April 3, 2007.
  13. ^ "Exclusive: The Hills' Heidi Montag Gets Implants", US Magazine, 2007-04-04. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  14. ^ "Boob Job Exclusive: Heidi Montag Talks!", US Magazine, 2007-04-05. Retrieved on April 6, 2007.
  15. ^ a b Rocchio, Christopher. "The Hills star Heidi Montag says second season 'much friskier'", Reality TV World, 2007-02-15. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  16. ^ Heffernan, Virginia. "The Hills, a Follow-Up to Laguna Beach, Makes Its Premiere on MTV", The New York Times, 2006-05-31. Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  17. ^ Pratt, Spencer; Leach, Chris (2007). INNOVATORmanagement (Flash). Retrieved on March 27, 2007.
  18. ^ a b c d "MTV'S Heidi Montag Shows Off Her Own Hills", US Magazine, 2007-02-06, pp. 5. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.
  19. ^ Montag, Heidi (2007-03). Heidi Montag (html). MySpace. Retrieved on March 26, 2007.

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