Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986), often referred to as "L.C.", is an American reality television star and fashion design student.She is best known for her role in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills.


Early life
Lauren Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California to James (Jim) and Katherine (née Lawrence) Conrad. Conrad has a younger sister, Breanna Christine Conrad (featured in Laguna Beach season three),, and a younger brother. Conrad lived with her family in Laguna Beach throughout her childhood and high school years.

Reality TV career
Laguna Beach
In early February 2004, during 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.

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[6] in Los Angeles and worked as an intern at Three Dots clothing company beginning in early 2005.

She also briefly dated Jason Wahler, also a Laguna Beach cast member. Conrad was featured on the second season of Laguna Beach,filmed over a period of approximately eight months beginning in December of 2004.

The Hills
In summer 2005, Conrad moved into a Los Angeles apartment with new roommate Heidi 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, she turned it down so that she could spend time with Wahler. Conrad and Wahler stayed together until the beginning of August 2006.

MTV renewed The Hills for a second season, which filmed from late summer of 2006 through February of 2007. Throughout that time the friendship between Conrad and Montag deteriorated as Montag increasingly spent her time with new boyfriend, Spencer Pratt.By February 2007, Audrina Patridge, another co-star on The Hills, replaced Montag as Conrad`s roommate after Montag moved into a separate apartment with Pratt, effectively ending the friendship.

Allegations
In April 2007, rumors circulated that former boyfriend, Jason Wahler, was planning to sell a sex tape he allegedly made with Conrad when they were a couple. Wahler, who was in rehab when the rumors began, denied the existence of the tape and blamed the rumors on Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt..Conrad also denied the existence of any sex tape and posted a message on her official website stating, "Jason and I are both shocked and hurt that people would say such horrible things about us. I can`t believe that somebody would go to such great lengths to try to damage my reputation". According to a conversation between Lauren and Heidi on The Hills, Spencer was responsible for the rumor. In an episode on The Hills, Brody confirmed it was Spencer.

Professional career
Conrad`s interest in fashion design began at a very young age, when a neighbor taught her to draw and help

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