Maybe I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m not “cool” or “hip”. Maybe I just don’t “get” someone like Lauren Conrad, a “reality star” or “a vapid succubus feeding on the rotting corpse of insanely boring faux-entertainment”. I’m okay with not getting it. I’m okay with rolling my eyes whenever Lauren Conrad’s name is mentioned. I just don’t understand why she exists. Or why I know her name. Or why a care even a little bit, just enough to know that I can’t stand her and what she represents. I know in my heart that the girl is probably harmless. Hating her is like hating the proverbial dumb kitten. All I know is that her interview in Shape Magazine hasn’t helped matters one bit.
Lauren starts out by doing something gross – she refers to the “extra” weight she gained when she first started dating Kyle Chandler as her “boyfriend layer”. I suppose “the boyfriend layer” was the two pounds she gained from eating two pieces of pizza while out on a date once. No fear, though, because she quickly realized that she and Kyle could spend their time together working out. Thus, the cover shot in a bikini. My take? Lauren has always had a pretty, athletic, healthy figure. I’m not sure why she’s trying to sell it like she’s just lost a lot of weight, or she just got healthy. She looks fine. Whatever.
They don’t call them love handles for nothing! Former “Hills” star Lauren Conrad admits in Shape magazine that she got a little “soft around the middle” early in her romance with actor Kyle Howard.
“I call it the ‘boyfriend layer’,” she says. “We were having more romantic dinners out, and I was exercising less.”
So how did the California girl reclaim her stunning bikini bod in time to make the magazine’s September cover? By hitting the gym with her honey.
“I just ask Kyle, ‘You feel like working out?'” she says, adding that they spend most of their together time outside anyway. “We like doing outdoor stuff: tennis, bike riding, kayaking, surfing, hiking. It’s more fun than hitting the gym alone.”
The tanned, golden-haired reality star spills how she found more confidence in her life after “The Hills,” which premieres without her on Sept. 29.
“People I thought I could count on were undermining me, and my self-esteem took a hit,” she says. “I’ve learned that you’ve got to stay true to yourself. It’s the only way you’ll be really happy.”
She’s got a lot to be happy about. Besides her boyfriend, she’s also keeping busy with her LC Lauren Conrad clothing line for Kohl’s. Her affordable line of jeans and blouses hit shelves this October.
She says, “It’s all about finding silhouettes that highlight the best parts of your figure.”
[From the New York Daily News]
Oh, poor LC. People were “undermining” her. That’s what happens when you live your life as if the world was a perpetual high school. LC goes on to say, “I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying ‘Let it go, Lauren, It doesn’t matter’ … [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says ‘sticks and stones,’ because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Oh, she got a tattoo! I take back everything I ever said about her! She’s so hardcore.
Header photo from CoverAwards. Photo below is of Lauren in a bikini on 7/19/07. Credit: Fame Pictures. It’s not really fair to compare a heavily airbrushed photo with a normal one, though.
“It’s not really fair to compare a heavily airbrushed photo with a normal one, though.”
I think it’s absolutely fair. it’s a much better representation of what she actually looks like.
why must they make the women’s bodies look like a mannequin? I don’t mean the shape, but the color and texture. She looks like she’s made of plastic!
@Praise I mean if you’re looking at supposed weight loss.
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“tanned, golden-haired” Could they suck up to this waste of space anymore?
OOO she got a tramp stamp! Of words she can’t see! What a moron…
Eh, she’s harmless. I’d rather read about her than Jon Gosselin!
She’s actually a pretty girl.
harmless my ass… I don’t think we realize how much damage these vapid, insipid, useless women do to set females back… and she got a tramp stramp of a quote we used in elementary school… how profound.
I’m not claiming that ALL women have to be highly intelligent, classy and sophisticated… I just find it somewhat repulsive that all the more well know pop icons, especially around this age, tend to be idiots… why is it that as a society we idolize the stupid? so strange, considering that intelligent people have been the source of most of the progress in history… and yet we tend to brush them off… so strange *shrug*
Not trying to pick a fight here, but I don’t read gossip sites for the “intelligent” people in them. My thing, is Lauren Conrad, and others like her, they matter so little to me in my life that when I see something about them or read it, nothing weighs on me because they don’t matter.
When you read posts on a gossip site you don’t read about celebrities to know how intelligent they are. You go to gossip sites for the gossip, which in my life is a small part of my day to day existence. It is a mindless escape from the realities of life. If I want to know about intelligent women, I will pick up a history book or watch the news or talk to the women around me. Conrad is harmless to me because other than being a blurb on a gossip site, she and her thoughts matter not in my life.
No offense to this site with anything I just wrote. : )
yes I know why we come to gossip sites… I’m fully aware. No need to state the obvious. But since you’re stating the obvious, then, so will I…I’m simply expressing my opinion.
However, these “The Hills” girls seem to be extra annoying and extra stupid and manage to garner loads of attention from the public… just pointing it out is all. It just boggles the mind how annoyingly stupid people are famous these days… again *shrug*
ps… the men on that show are by no means better…
I don’t know about that. These are the people that are shaping the younger generation. To expect them to be somewhat intelligent in an interview and less hedonostic and shallow is not asking much. Just because it is gossip doesn’t mean it has to be soooo completely shallow. Gossip isn’t just for fashion and acting. It comes in all forms even amongst the intelligent.
Oh yeah, I’d like to add that I DO NOT subject myself to this show… I have some self respect… :-p
I have, however, seen various clips of these “people” on “the soup” and the one thing that really stood out in my mind was when one of the girls, in an attempt to sound intelligent, brought up CERN and stated something about how they are “making black holes there” (totally untrue btw… does she even know what a black hole is?)… anyway, Audrina looked at her all starry eyed and confused and said “I can’t believe this is all going on while Lauren is gone.” I literally slapped my forehead…
i’ve watched the hills since season one and honestly, she’s the best one for girls to look up to (body issue wise) compared to the rest. yes, she has lost some weight/gotten into better shape since the hills began, but she hasn’t starved herself, had plastic surgery, drastically changed her appearance to create this unrealistic goal for young women. i just think you if you want to talk about the most vapid girl on the hills, lauren is not at the top of my list.
I guess being around doctors, engineers, physicists and the such for most of my life, I’ve somehow grown to expect more of people than running around in bikinis all the time and talking about how they finally lost those last two pounds… and somehow, if you haven’t gotten breast implants and only look slightly orange, you’re off the charts on the intelligence spectrum… no, I don’t think so.
I’m just so tired of listening to women whine about how their stomachs aren’t flat enough or how they need to lose 10 pounds, when they look perfectly fine, healthy and normal. (and before the juvenile insults come hurtling in, no I am not fat and ugly… at least I don’t think… Don’t make me post pics to prove it damn it :p). I’m just saying, I really wish people were famous for some legitimate reason… Not because they look good in a bikini and are sufficiently orange… sighhhhh
Honestly I don’t see what is so attractive about her.Maybe it is the blond hair and blue eyes but that doesn’t make her attractive IMO average at best.
she’s way better looking than that heidi girl.
Kyle Chandler is actually the (extremely hot) dude from Friday Night Lights. He’s not dating LC.
I hate to agree with her, but I gotta say, I’m definitely heavier now than I was when I was single.
Then again, I also blame the desk job thing.
quote (harmless my ass… I don’t think we realize how much damage these vapid, insipid, useless women do to set females back)
Do you think that useless men set “males” back? Are all men judged from the behavior of a few? Or is it just women who are supposed to be clones of each other, and therefore if one behaves badly, she taints all other women?