2007

Lauren Conrad

April

Sex Tape Rumors

Word spreads that Conrad made a sex tape with ex-boyfriend, Jason Wahler, but they both adamantly deny the rumors. And Conrad soon predicts that ex-BFF Heidi Montag, whom she started feuding with after Montag began dating instigating bad boy Spencer Pratt (right, with Montag) during the second season of The Hills, started the sex tape rumor with Pratt. Pratt posts vulgar comments about Conrad on his Web site: "It's sad that she destroyed the sex tape...[It] would have made her real famous."

Lauren Conrad

August 13

A Feuding Third Season

"You know what you did!" Conrad repeatedly screams at Montag during a confrontation at L.A. hotspot Les Deux in the third season premiere of The Hills. Conrad calls Montag "sad," while Conrad's new roommate Audrina Patridge calls Montag "brainwashed" by her manager-fiancé Pratt, who has been bad-mouthing Conrad in the press. Although many question the show's authenticity, the Conrad-Montag-Pratt feud helps drive ratings, drawing in 3.7 million viewers and making the premiere the highest rated show for MTV this year.

2008

Lauren Conrad

March

Lauren Turns Fashion Designer

After Conrad's clothing line makes its online debut in 2007, she makes her big runway debut at L.A. Fashion Week. "Fashion is something I've always wanted to do, ever since the sixth grade," Conrad, who left her post as an intern at Teen Vogue in January, tells the Orange County Register.

Lauren Conrad

May

Lauren's New Guy

After Laguna Beach former flame Stephen Colletti makes a one-episode appearance on The Hills, Conrad steps out with a new beau – Doug Reinhardt, a minor leaguer for the Baltimore Orioles. Reinhardt, who Conrad briefly dated in high school, will be featured on the next season of Conrad's MTV hit.

Lauren Conrad

May 15

Lauren & Heidi Reunite on Rolling Stone

Conrad, 22, and Montag, 21, appear together – with Audrina Patridge, 22, and Whitney Port, 23 – on the cover of Rolling Stone. The shoot is the first time the two frenemies have been photographed together since their ratings-boosting feud. The magazine calls The Hills – which an MTV exec calls "the most influential show we've ever had" – "a maddeningly addictive TV show in which nothing ever really happens." "Who were Paris and Nicole before they weren't friends? That's when they became superstars," Montag's Pratt says. "If Lauren and Heidi were friends, people wouldn't tune in."

Photo Credits

BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Andrew Shawaf/Pacific Coast News; Jeff Lipsky/MTV; Michael Tran/FilmMagic; Splash News Online; Courtesy of Rolling Stone

Edited by Mai Dinh, Janet Murphy