Heidi Montag: Snapshot
- Name
- Heidi Montag
- Birth Date
- September 15, 1986
- Birth Place
- Crested Butte, Colo.
Originally slated as Laguna Beach fan-favorite Lauren Conrad's sidekick-roommate, Montag widened her role through the drama she created on and off The Hills. The Colorado-native sacrificed her friendship with Conrad to shack up with trouble-making bad boy Pratt, who badmouthed Conrad in the press, even allegedly starting the LC-Jason Wahler sex tape rumors. The Speidi-Conrad feud boosted ratings for the ''reality'' series, enabling a surgically-altered Montag to step out of Conrad's shadow and set her sights on pop stardom.
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Heidi Montag: Five Fun Facts
- Spencer Pratt filmed Heidi Montag's music video for ''Higher'' in half an hour and for "zero dollars." One hightlight from the video? Montag running through a flock of seagulls: "She's got a great bird call," Pratt told PEOPLE.
- In 2007, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt gave fans and foes the opportunity to bid on having dinner with the troublesome twosome to benefit the World Food Program.
- When Spencer Pratt proposed to Heidi Montag, TMZ reported that he gave her a fake diamond ring. They claimed that Pratt borrowed Brody Jenner's credit card to buy an amethyst ring surrounded by diamonds for a mere $2,890.
- Heidi Montag surgically enhanced her natural A-cup bra size to a whopping 32C in April 2007. When asked about her first reaction to the results, she told Access Hollywood, "I think I was just thrilled. I think honestly, it was like Extreme Makeover."
- In addition to reality TV and singing, Heidi Montag has her sights on hitting the big screen. "I also plan to win an Oscar," she told Blender. "I'm very ambitious."
Heidi Montag: Biography 
- 2004
BFF Beginnings
After graduating high school, Colorado-native Heidi Montag heads to California to crack the books at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. At a freshman orientation, she meets Lauren Conrad, star of MTV’s hit reality show, Laguna Beach. "Everyone in the room was kind of gothy, and we were the two blond girls in the room scared out of our minds," Montag recalls to the New York Times in 2006. "I ran up to her and said, 'Will you please talk to me.'" Soon after, the new friends plot their move to L.A. to study at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.
- 2006
The Hills Are Alive...
MTV develops a spinoff with Conrad called The Hills, featuring Conrad's move to L.A. as she studies fashion, interns at Teen Vogue, and lives with Montag. (From left, costar Audrina Patridge, fellow intern Whitney Port and Conrad). Creator Adam DiVello tells PEOPLE, "It's really about the next stage in life, when you leave high school and leave home for the first time." In the first season, Montag drops out of FIDM to work for the event-planning firm, Bolthouse Productions.
- 2007
Spencer + Heidi = Speidi
During the second season of the hit show, tension surfaces between Montag and Conrad when Montag begins dating instigating bad boy, Spencer Pratt. Montag eventually moves in with Pratt, ignoring Conrad's warning of his wandering eye and her prediction that it will ruin their friendship. Conrad is also hurt when the couple urges her friend, Jen Bunney, to hook up with her ex, Brody Jenner. "I ... felt so betrayed," Conrad tells Montag.
Photo Credits
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BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Alexandra Wyman/WireImage; MTV
