Heidi Montag, born September 15, 1986 in Crested Butte, Colorado,
is an American reality television celebrity best known for appearing
on the MTV reality television series The Hills. Montag is also an aspiring
singer.
Television career
In the summer of 2005, MTV began filming the lives of Laguna Beach
cast member Lauren Conrad and her college friends for her spin-off
reality show, The Hills. Montag's reality TV career began with
a few appearances on season two of MTV's Laguna Beach. Montag's friendship
with Conrad led to a featured role in The Hills, which premiered
on May 31, 2006. Montag was featured in the series sharing an
apartment with Conrad while studying at the Fashion Institute of
Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. Montag left the Fashion
Institute in fall of 2005 when she was hired as an intern at Bolthouse
Productions. According to Montag, she dropped out because she "did
not find the school challenging". Within two years, Montag
was promoted from intern to event planner at Bolthouse, and has no
plans to return to fashion school.
Montag appeared in every episode of seasons one and two of The Hills,
and appeared in season three, which aired on MTV on August 13, 2007.
The nature of Montag's role in future seasons of The Hills is unclear
since she is no longer living with Conrad and no longer speaks with
her because of conflicts which occurred during their time as roommates,
which surrounded Montag's relationship with Spencer Pratt. Despite
a major role on the show, she did not appear on The Hills: Finale After
Party, broadcast live from MTV's New York headquarters or The Hills:
MTV Canada Finale After Show (filmed at MTV's Toronto studios).
At The Hills: MTV Canada Finale After Show, cast member Audrina Patridge
made it public that she no longer speaks with or sees Montag.
Montag has discussed taking acting classes, saying she hopes The Hills
will help her jump start a film career. She has expressed a desire
to have appearances in "some movies" in addition to "a
couple of hit albums". In a recent Blender Magazine interview,
Montag revealed her intentions of one day winning an Academy Award.
Music career
As of February 2007, Montag is working on recording
an album with producer David Foster. She describes the sound as "very
fun, fresh, sexy" Montag danced as a child, thus reportedly plans to
do "a lot of performing" in connection with the album. Additionally,
she indicates that a lot of her songs "will be very sexual." On
August 16, 2007, Ryan Seacrest premiered Montag's song, "Body Language",
featuring Pratt rapping, on his KIIS-FM radio show. The song was produced
by David Foster. Both Montag and Pratt denied the song was her intended
first single with Pratt telling Us Weekly that the tune, "was a song
Heidi and I were doing for fun. Never would I rap on her first single!" It
was also reported that Montag is on a one-song contract with Warner
Bros., not a full studio contract as both Montag and her then-fiance,
Spencer Pratt, had claimed. The debut album will now be produced
by Theron Feemster and self-released by Montag herself, according to
her Myspace music profile. In December 2007, another track by Montag
and produced by David Foster entitled "Touch Me" was leaked online.
On February 5, 2008 Montag's first single, "Higher", received an online-only
release on iTunes. Along with the single, the accompanying video shot
by boyfriend, Spencer Pratt, was also available to purchase. The song
and the video received a negative response from websites and readers
across the internet, to which Montag responded, "I appreciate people
taking the time to write any comment." On March 25, 2008, Montag
released her second single, "No More" through iTunes.
Personal life
Montag began dating Jordan Eubanks in 2005 and their
relationship was featured on season one of The Hills. Montag broke
off her relationship with Eubanks in the spring of 2006, a move that
she has described as "the best decision of [her] life" and "something
that [she] should have done earlier". In the summer of 2006, Montag
started dating fellow Hills cast member Spencer Pratt, a former manager
of Brody Jenner Season two of The Hills (which aired from January through
April 2007) focused on Montag's relationship with Pratt and its effect
on her friendships with Conrad and Patridge. On The Hills' season two
finale, Montag moved out of her apartment with Conrad to live with
Pratt. In May 2007, Montag and Pratt announced their engagement.
Fans of The Hills have speculated that the engagement is fake,
a claim that both Montag and Pratt denied. During The Hills season
finale in December 2007, Montag and Pratt broke up. During a broadcast
of Ryan Seacrest's radio show, Pratt revealed that he is "madly in
love with Heidi and trying to win her back to marry her." The fate
of the couple's relationship will be revealed in a series of bonus
episodes of The Hills that will air in spring 2008. After months
of speculation and rumors, Montag admitted to undergoing a breast augmentation
and rhinoplasty in April 2007. In an April 2008 interview, Montag
stated that she is a Republican and that she plans to vote for John
McCain in the 2008 presidential election. However, later research
shows that Montag is not a registered voter.