An (Old) LC Interview with 'Jane' Magazine

I was just browsing today and came across this old interview with Lauren "LC" Conrad from Jane magazine. They basically ask her all about Laguna Beach and Jason (she was still with him at the time they conducted this interview), and there's some stuff-you-didn't-see about Stephen and Kristin, so if you are/were a fan, it's a pretty fun read.

You're on your second TV show and you've shot an ad for Bongo jeans. What's the craziest offer you've turned down?
The Lingerie Bowl—basically, you play football in your underwear. They wanted me to be quarterback for the L.A. team. I also got offered a spot on Dancing with the Stars. I was like, "Pass!" I can't dance.

Is your bank account reaping the rewards?
We're just making money off of what we can, 'cause it's easy money.

Are you and Kristin enemies or was that created for the show?
We really didn't like each other. If anything, we behaved [well] in front of the cameras. The time we really fought was off-camera. She was always fretting over me spending time with Stephen [Colletti].

Was there actually anything romantic there?
A little bit, but [Stephen and Kristin] had been broken up for, like, three months. And she had cheated on him several times—with one of my friends—and Stephen asked me about it. I didn't owe her anything. So I was like, "Yes, she did." She chased my car after school. I was like, "Gas!"

Was Talan [Torriero] and Kim Stewart's engagement real?
Talan doesn't always think things through. So he was kinda like, "All right, I'll get engaged," and then he realized he had to marry her.

How often did you guys booze it up while filming?
A lot! If you see a red cup, we're usually drinking. There's a lot of red cups.

Didn't anyone ever have homework?
You know, I didn't do very much, but I had it.

Your boyfriend Jason [Wahler] didn't come across so well on the show—in fact, he seemed like a rat.
He hated being on camera—he freezes up and he gets really weird. He looks like he has no personality, and he says dumb things.

How'd you feel after you saw the episode in which Jason kissed Jessica [Smith], then lied about it—you let him have it.
When they turned off the camera, I really yelled at him. When he watched it he was really upset. I made him watch it 10 times, too!

He said he wanted to be with you forever.
He asks me to marry him every day. I love Jason. I could see myself marrying him.

So who's the richest person on the show?
Casey Reinhardt. Her stepfather invented the frozen burrito.

Where's Trey?
He's in New York.

We love Trey.
I love Trey! Trey is one of my favorite people in the world.

Trey didn't get enough airtime.
He was off saving the world and, like, curing cancer or something.

Are you going to hang out with him while you're in New York?
I didn't even think about that. I'm working the whole time I'm here. He's still working on his hats. He has new ones that are like Velcro and have [removable] political messages, so you can stick a new one on every day. It's cool.

How do you like working in the fashion industry--is it what you expected?

Well, I'm an intern so I help out with busywork--errands, invitations--basic stuff, but it's a fun job. I got to go to New York for Fashion Week, to deliver a dress.

I saw you at that show.
Did you?

Yeah, because everyone was freaking about the celebrities and I was like, "I saw LC from Laguna Beach!" It was the Marc by Marc show.
Marc by Marc, yup. They didn't tell me I would get to stay! I thought I was just gonna run in, and they were like, "You can stay."

Were there cameras with you?
There are always cameras with me.

Does it ever feel too invasive? Do you forget about them? What about when you made out with someone?
I wasn't gonna make out on camera, my grandma watches this show! Actually, the only time they ever got me making out I wasn't even on camera; they had cameras set up in a car and normally when you shut off the car, the battery turns off the cameras. But they had a separate battery set up, for some reason, so it was still on. And we were waiting for, like, five minutes in the car, so they have me leaning in and making out with Jason, but you can only see the back of our heads and hear the sound.

Oooooooh!
It was horrible.

Have you always lived in the house they showed on TV?
No, it's a new house. Most of my life I lived in the old house, about 10 minutes away from this house. I lived there, and then my father sold that house too soon, before the new one was gonna be done, so then we had to live in this really creepy haunted house. I saw ghosts--it was the creepiest house. Have you heard the song "Bette Davis Eyes"? It was Bette Davis's old house.

Really?
And a woman had just died in it, it was really creepy.

So what did the ghosts look like?
Lo and I would come home very late at night, like after a party, and there'd be this pair of guys who would be holding hands down the stairs. It was a scary house. I hate that house.

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