Heidi Montag was born on September 15, 1986, to restaurant owners in Crested Butte, Colorado, the second of three children. Out of high school, she says she studied fashion in Italy for a year before moving to San Francisco to attend the Academy of Art. It was a fateful decision, since it was there where she met Lauren Conrad. Neither would finish at the Academy; rather, they both moved south to L.A. to attend the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and moved into an apartment together.
In 2005, Heidi Montag dropped out of the Institute, claiming it wasn’t sufficiently challenging, to take an internship with Bolthouse Productions. The internship ultimately led to a position as an event planner with the company.
Why Is She Famous?
Success
only character she’s played on TV, but she has cataloged about 27 episodes of reality TV and has begun to self-release music singles, chiefly through her MySpace page and through iTunes. Although the tracks have been repeatedly slammed by countless critics, they have also been repeatedly downloaded.
Along with expressing a desire to act, in April of 2008 she predictably launched Heidiwood, her clothing line.
Heidi Montag’s success is money in the bank for MTV and vice-versa. The recent season premiere of The Hills, which MTV executives consider the network’s all-time most influential show, was the highest rated show on cable through the first few months of 2008. Spencer Pratt credits the public feud between Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad rather tellingly, comparing the pair and their feud to Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, saying, "Who were Paris and Nicole before they weren't friends? That's when they became superstars. If Lauren and Heidi were friends, people wouldn't tune in."
Sexiness
Although a new nose and a boob job has the slim, blond, 5’ 3” reality TV star looking especially good, and although there is no denying her beauty, a couple issues cut into her sex appeal ever-so-slightly.
One is the controlling, wanna-be Hollywood power-broker boyfriend, and the other is that she is just plain… well, let’s just say she doesn’t come off as especially bright, on The Hills or, especially, in interviews. Ultimately, she seems to do her best work when she can’t be heard, namely in print as a model (when she has the ability to look like a real model -- not a fashion model like Adriana Lima, but definitely a glamour model).
Although a new nose and a boob job has the slim, blond, 5’ 3” reality TV star looking especially good, and although there is no denying her beauty, a couple issues cut into her sex appeal ever-so-slightly.
One is the controlling, wanna-be Hollywood power-broker boyfriend, and the other is that she is just plain… well, let’s just say she doesn’t come off as especially bright, on The Hills or, especially, in interviews. Ultimately, she seems to do her best work when she can’t be heard, namely in print as a model (when she has the ability to look like a real model -- not a fashion model like Adriana Lima, but definitely a glamour model).
