In one week, New York Timesbest selling novelistLauren Conrad went from hanging out at Nascar to visiting The Wendy WilliamsShow in New York. She talked about her fashion line, offered tips on avoiding the 'fat arm' and revealed her infatuation with Jersey Shore (who can blame her?). And in honor of First Kiss Month (whatever that is), LC was forced to dish about her first time frenching!
Williams also probed the reserved starlet about current Hills casties, but she kept mum. Trash talking is so not LC's style.
Check out the video below and keep your eye out at the end of the segment, where Lauren spills the beans about her embarrassing 8th grade smooch.
For the past few weeks, Lauren Conrad has been busy traveling the world, promoting her sophomore book Sweet Little Lies and hanging out with long-standing boyfriend Kyle Howard. After wrapping up her tour Sunday, the ex-Hills star headed back to Cali and made a surprising stop at NASCAR's Sprint Cup in Los Angeles (not exactly the type of place we'd expect to find the glamourpuss!).
One thing's for sure: LC knows how to dress, no matter what the occasion. She looked effortlessly stylish (and NASCAR-appropriate) in this lightweight frock, paired with tousled hair and Ray-Ban Aviators. Check out these hot shots of her day of thunder, plus read her tweet below to see what she thought about standing on the sidelines.
It's been a busy week for the MTV Twitterati, so we'll get right down to it, starting with ... Jersey Shore. While JWOWW pined for her old pal Snooki, the princess of pouf announced her plan to relieve stress by putting a nail salon, tanning bed and nightclub in every airport. (What, no gym?) Meanwhile, former Hillsstar Lauren Conrad teased Lo Bosworth about her Oprah-watching boyfriend while Real World: Brooklyn's Scott challenged The Situation to an old-fashioned "Ab Off." All that and more, on this week's MTV Twitter Roundup!
Lauren Conrad knows a thing or two about selling books. Her first novel, L.A. Candy, became an international bestseller overnight, and now she's hoping for a repeat with her just-released follow-up, Sweet Little Lies. So what's her secret to success? Great marketing and, of course, the decision to write about what she knows.
"I got to have fun with it," Lauren revealed yesterday at a book signing in Miami. "[A]nd, in a way, tell a similar story as far as things you go through ... without spilling [all my] secrets." 'Course, that doesn't mean she's keeping Candy fans completely in the dark. Recently, LC shocked readers by telling Seventeen that Jane Roberts (the series' sweet, glass-is-half-full protagonist) isn't the only character with Conrad-like tendencies.
"Jane is the main character [of Sweet Little Lies] and most like me," LC admitted. "But also when I was more sarcastic and against [being on] the The Hills, I was able to illustrate that through Scarlett[Harp], her best friend."
+ Will you be picking up a copy of LC's latest book? Sound off in the comments, plus let us know whether you see Lauren as more of a Jane or a Scarlett in the L.A. Candy series.
What did Audrina Patridge really think about Lauren Conrad's L.A. Candy? Truth is, she wouldn't know -- she's never made it past the book jacket.
"I haven’t even read the book," Audrina confessed in a new interview with AskMen.com. "[Despite what you might have read], I am not going to star in it, and I’m not even going to be in it. I haven’t read the book at all." So what's stopped 'Drina from gettin' her Candy on? Well, according to the Hillzie, she's not exactly comfortable with her portrayal in the reality-based tome.
"I heard how she portrayed my character," Audrina continued, "and it isn’t like me at all. She kind of made me sound really ditsy and stupid. So yeah, I [think] I’ll pass."
Meanwhile, Audrina also spoke to AskMen.com about her dating life (recently, she's been linked with spiky-haired rocker Ryan Cabrera), and sounded off about the pressures of juggling reality TV and romance.
"It’s really hard to have a relationship and be on [a show like The Hills]," she said. "There is always drama and there are always people in your ear. You start questioning each other and whether things are true or if they’re false. If you’re not together all the time then you really don’t know."
Lauren Conradis glowing on the March cover of Seventeenmagazine, but it's the story inside that's attracting all the attention. In between promoting her new book (and discussing what first attracted her to reality TV), LC is shocking readers with a startling confession: one of her ex-boyfriends on The Hills was a two-timing cheat!
"Oh, I knew back then when I was being cheated on," she told Seventeen. "But I overlooked it. The more confident me has come to the point where I’ve finally realized it’s not something that everyone does. And it’s not okay to have your guy hook up with someone else. You deserve better."
Obvs, we're glad to hear LC's moved onwards and upwards (to devoted bf/practicing monogamist Kyle Howard), but we can't help but wonder: which former Hills-era squeeze had the wandering eye? We've rounded up a list of the usual suspects, so take the poll and tell us who you think did the dastardly deed!
Lauren Conrad didn't set out to become a role model when she signed up for Laguna Beach in 2004. 'Course, back then, she had no idea she would be living out the next five years of her life in the national spotlight. Now, having walked away from her reality TV perch (LC left The Hills halfway through its fifth season), Lauren's still trying to find that balance between living her life -- and living up to all her young fans' expectations. So far, she's done a pretty good job at both.
In addition to finding love off-screen with My Boys actor Kyle Howard, Lauren's spent the past year or so writing the first two books of her L.A. Candy series (Book One is already being optioned for a movie). The semi-autobiographical novels, which are aimed primarily at young adults, are loosely -- and, at times, not so loosely -- based on her own experiences under the Hollywood microscope. And while Lauren occasionally addresses the darker underbelly of fame in her books, she says she made a conscientious effort not to glamorize any destructive behavior.
Lauren Conradmay not have invited Speidi to her B-day bash (a 75-person fete at The Roosevelt in L.A.) this year, but that didn't stop her longtime frenemies from sending a virtual birthday message.
Earlier this week, the Pratts joined true blue LC pals like Lo Bosworth, Steph Pratt and Whitney Port in sharing their good wishes via Twitter. And we gotta admit, their tweets were actually quite sweet! (Though we're not sure Spencer was being 100% sincere when he told his longtime nemesis she was "missed.") Anyhow, check out all the birfday love LC received from her Hills fam, plus read our rhyming recap of Lauren's most memorable moments.
UPDATE: Whitney Port didn't just hit up Lauren's partay -- she also posted her own Happy Bday tribute to LC on her blog. Check it out, after the jump.
Happy birfday, Lauren Conrad! It's the big 2-4
So we've written you a poem (but, oh wait! there's more!)
We've also put together a short (rhyming!) list
Of our fave LC memories. Like that first Brody kiss!
Or the days when you and Whitney sat side by side
In a Teen Vogue cubicle, about eight feet wide
(When you believed so strongly in summer romance
That you became The Girl Who Didn't Go To France)
From the time Heidi crashed your first Teen Vogue party
To the time Spencer FINALLY said he was sorry
Thanks for all the amazing Hills memories
Happy happy! From all of us here at RC.
Still remember your favorite book as a kid? Lauren Conrad does.
The Hillzie-turned-author caught up with EW.com's Shelf Life to fill them in on a few of her childhood (and grown-up!) guilty pleasures. So what was one of the first stories in little LC's collection? Good Night Moon. "It’s the book that I most remember reading as a child," Lauren admitted. "I used to read it over and over."
Other books LC adores included The Great Gatsby ("I’m obsessed with the 1920s,") Chicken Soupfor the Soul ("short stories [for my] short attention span") and The Notebook ("I liked the book just as much [as the movie]"). And while LC's got a lotta love for comedienne/writer Chelsea Handler ("She lacks a filter, which I really admire,"), she said the books she relates to most are ... her own! Particularly the character of Jane Roberts, her protagonist from L.A. Candy (and, some say, a stand-in for LC herself). After the jump, hear LC explain what it was like writing parts of her own personality -- like, uh, her flaws -- into her young adult series.