Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California on February 1, 1986 to Jim and Katherine Conrad. In early February 2004, 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... More

Lauren Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California on February 1, 1986 to Jim and Katherine Conrad. In early February 2004, 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. The show made the introverted Conrad an overnight celebrity. The television exposure, she says, has brought her out of her shell; "I went from, 'You can't take a picture of me,' to it doesn't faze me to have five cameras in the room".

 After graduation from high school, Conrad's new-found independence led her to Academy of Art University in San Francisco. 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 in Los Angeles, where she currently majors in product development, and worked as an intern at Three Dots clothing company beginning in early 2005.

Despite Conrad's success in entertainment, she has explained that she has no interest in an acting career because she does not enjoy it and she is not good at it at all. Lauren has been the cover girl for three magazines, including Teen Vogue, Seventeen, and Cosmo Girl; she says she hopes the press will help her make contacts for her career in fashion, which she has always been interested in.

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