<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12466810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kristin-cavallari" source="Orion">Kristin Cavallari</keyword> said producers pressured her to go into <keyword id="14500954" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stephen-colletti" source="Orion">Stephen Colletti</keyword>'s room after prom. </li><li>The "<keyword id="12145913" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="laguna-beach" source="Orion">Laguna Beach</keyword>" star tried to hide getting a hotel with her then-boyfriend from her dad. </li></ul><p>Kristin Cavallari said "Laguna Beach" producers told her to go into Stephen Colletti's hotel room after prom on camera even though she protested at the time. It led to one of the early-2000s show's more memorable episodes.</p><p>"I didn't want my dad knowing that we got a hotel room and then at the end of the night, I was like, 'I'm not going in there and saying goodbye to Steven because I don't want my dad knowing.' And <keyword id="12069467" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mtv" source="Orion">MTV</keyword> was like, 'Just go in,'" she told Insider <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-podcast-villain-role-2022-7">during an interview</a>. </p><p>"I was like, 'I'm not going to go into the hotel room.' And they said 'No, just go in and say goodbye to him.' And I was like 'Oh, OK.' And then, of course, they cut that out. So my dad was fully aware that I got a hotel room after senior prom," she continued. She did not name which producers she was working with at the time. </p><p>"Laguna Beach" first aired on MTV in 2004. The reality series followed the <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-are-they-now-the-cast-of-laguna-beach-2020-10">family lives and relationships</a> of high school students in Laguna Beach, California, for three seasons. The relationship between Colletti and Cavallari was a huge part of the series' storylines.</p><p>During the prom episode of season one, Cavallari tells Colletti on camera that she does not want her dad to know they're getting a hotel room. When he asks why not, she exclaims, "Because I have parents Stephen!" Later on, Cavallari is filmed going into the hotel.</p><p>The moment was puzzling for fans who knew that Cavallari's parents would eventually be watching the conversation and her actions play out on television.</p><p>She explained why she initially discussed getting a hotel room with her then-boyfriend Stephen Colletti on camera even though she wanted to hide it from her father. </p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="2502" width="3337" msid="93076688" hostid="261" sizebytes="168034"></div><p>"I didn't know that Steven had a camera on him on the other end. So I thought they were only filming me and they wouldn't be able to use my dialogue," she said.</p><p>Cavallari understands why viewers were confused since they didn't know she wasn't wearing a mic. Rewatching the scene, Cavallari told Insider, "I was like, you dumb ass! What are you doing?"</p><p>Cavallari and Colletti said the stars' parents were concerned about the tone of the series after MTV productions were behind the <a href="https://www.insider.com/justin-timberlake-janet-jackson-super-bowl-incident-timeline">Super Bowl halftime show</a> where Janet Jackson's nipple was accidentally exposed to the audience. Producers were banned from their high school campus and Cavallari and Colletti said their parents were shown a "watered down version" of the pilot at a screening. </p><p>Colletti and Cavallari also previously revealed that producers on the teen <keyword id="12326069" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="docuseries" source="Orion">docuseries</keyword> would frequently film them walking in and out of rooms with no context to complete storylines on their new <a href="https://dearmedia.com/">Dear Media</a> <keyword id="14500956" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rewatch-podcast" source="Orion">rewatch podcast</keyword> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-beach-with-kristin-and-stephen/id1630490097">"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen." </a></p><p>"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen" is now available on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-streaming">streaming</a> services. Check out the trailer below.</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVeAH_9MM34" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Kristin Cavallari says 'Laguna Beach' producers pressured her to go into Stephen Colletti's hotel room after prom

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="12145913" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="laguna-beach" source="Orion">Laguna Beach</keyword>" stars <keyword id="12466810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kristin-cavallari" source="Orion">Kristin Cavallari</keyword> and <keyword id="14500954" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stephen-colletti" source="Orion">Stephen Colletti</keyword> are cohosting a Dear Media <keyword id="14500956" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rewatch-podcast" source="Orion">rewatch podcast</keyword>.</li><li>They revealed they made $2,000 each for the first season of the series.</li></ul><p>Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti revealed the surprisingly low salaries they were each paid to star in season one of "Laguna Beach" on the premiere of their new <a href="https://dearmedia.com/">Dear Media</a> rewatch <keyword id="11918054" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="podcast" source="Orion">podcast</keyword> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-beach-with-kristin-and-stephen/id1630490097">"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen."</a></p><p>"We got paid our $2,000 bucks, which by the way I thought was a lot of money at the time," said Colletti at the 36:00 minute mark. </p><p>"Laguna Beach," which premiered on <keyword id="12069467" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mtv" source="Orion">MTV</keyword> in 2004, followed the <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-are-they-now-the-cast-of-laguna-beach-2020-10">lives and loves</a> of high school students in Laguna Beach, California for three seasons. Cavallari and Colletti, who dated on the show and have remained friends since, were portrayed as idle rich kids in the docuseries, but they said that was not the whole truth.</p><p>For example, they revealed that the hotel room used in the pilot episode of the show "A Black and White Affair" was paid for by production. Cavallari said students at their school "don't go and rent $700 hotel rooms for just a night of fun." </p><p>"It wasn't a normal for us," she continued. "We definitely couldn't afford that back then. That was on MTV's dime," added Colletti.</p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari" height="3353" width="4467" msid="93040512" hostid="261" sizebytes="500000"></div>Colletti said during the preview episode for the podcast that he and the series' <a href="https://www.insider.com/laguna-beach-podcast-kristin-cavallari-says-lauren-conrad-never-friends-2022-7">other star Lauren Conrad</a> renegotiated their contracts to appear in the show's second season, but he did not share how much they were compensated. <p>Cavallari said she also negotiated for a higher fee to appear in season two and negotiated for other compensation during her time on the series as well. "I honestly would have done it for free," said Cavallari. "When they told us they were gonna pay us I was like, oh my God great!"</p><p>She previously told Insider <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-podcast-villain-role-2022-7">during an interview</a> promoting the new podcast that she asked production to cover her spring break trip to Cabo, which was featured prominently on the first season of the show.</p><p>"I said, okay, well, if you're going to film me in Cabo, then you have to pay for my trip. And they did," she said. </p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="2684" width="3576" msid="93040514" hostid="261" sizebytes="653886"></div><p>Colletti used the show as an entryway into the <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">entertainment</keyword> business and went on to become a host for MTV's "TRL" and an actor appearing on series including The CW's <a href="https://www.insider.com/one-tree-hill-cast-then-and-now-2018-9">"One Tree Hill"</a> and VH1's <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BA_N8lbw2Wt/?hl=en">"Hit The Floor."</a></p><p>Cavallari said she saw the series as an opportunity too. She went on create the lifestyle brand Uncommon James and eventually returned to the reality TV world, starring in the final season of the "Laguna Beach" spin-off "The Hills" and three seasons of her own E! reality show, <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-shares-weekly-wardrobe-uncommon-james-2020-8">"Very Cavallari."</a></p><p>"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen" is now available on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-streaming">streaming</a> services. Check out the trailer below.</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVeAH_9MM34" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti reveal they only made $2,000 for the entire first season of 'Laguna Beach'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12466810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kristin-cavallari" source="Orion">Kristin Cavallari</keyword> says she celebrated her <keyword id="12209993" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="weight-gain" source="Orion">weight gain</keyword> to fight "warped" ideas about <keyword id="11909826" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="body-image" source="Orion">body image</keyword>.</li><li>The "Laguna Beach" star says she's proud of her body after working hard to add pounds of <keyword id="11897661" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="muscle" source="Orion">muscle</keyword>. </li></ul><p>Kristin Cavallari shared why she posted about gaining weight on social media in an interview with Insider. </p><p>"I am 35, I'm a mom to three kids," Cavallari said. "That doesn't mean that I can't show off my body and be proud of it. I've gained a lot of muscle weight. I work really hard on my body and I think that's something to celebrate, not something to be ashamed of."</p><p>The former <a href="https://www.insider.com/laguna-beach-podcast-kristin-cavallari-says-lauren-conrad-never-friends-2022-7">"Laguna Beach" star</a> showed off her gains in her glutes by posting a snap of herself in a black bikini on her Instagram page. In the post, Cavallari also shared earlier photos of herself at a time during which she said she had lost a significant amount of weight due to stress. She added in her caption that she didn't "even recognize the girl in those other 2 photos."</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfbrvGtLwLV" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Kristin Cavallari (@kristincavallari)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></p></div></blockquote><p>Speaking to Insider, Cavallari said she posted the photos to combat the focus on social media around losing weight.</p><p>"I also think there need to be more conversations around gaining weight rather than everyone always trying to be so thin," she said.</p><p>"I have a daughter and I think it's very difficult now for everybody, but especially girls growing up and looking at social media. This idea of body image is just so warped," she went on. "And I just worry about these young girls and so I think it just needs to be a bigger conversation about being OK gaining weight and <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-kristin-cavallari-eats-breakfast-lunch-dinner-diet-2020-9">not focusing on a number on the scale</a>."</p><p>Cavallari has three children with her ex-husband <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-jay-cutler-co-parenting-divorce-2020-9">Jay Cutler</a>: sons Camden Jack, 9, and Jaxon Wyatt, 8, as well as daughter Saylor James, 6.</p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari wears a black dress on the ACM 2022 red carpet." height="2792" width="2000" msid="93040516" hostid="261" sizebytes="371500"></div><p>Cavallari says she's determined to show her children the difference between what's real and what's fake online in a world where <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/influencer-twitter-social-media-likes-man-woman-faceapp-robot-gender-2021-3?_ga=2.244916867.704874098.1658177742-1996747788.1647018266">filters</a>, advertisements, photo angles, and other tools can augment anyone's perceptions.</p><p>"Because I'm in the press, it's allowed me these opportunities to have these real conversations with my kids. When, if I wasn't, I probably wouldn't have had these conversations yet, but they see firsthand how not everything on the internet or on TV is real," she said. </p><p>"I'm able to start laying the groundwork now when they're so young. I think actually my kids have a pretty good grasp on social media, the internet TV, I think, I think that is a very good thing," she added. </p><p>Cavallari will be showing fans what was real and fake on "Laguna Beach" on her new <a href="https://dearmedia.com/">Dear Media</a> podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-beach-with-kristin-and-stephen/id1630490097">"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen."</a> The show will feature her and her ex-boyfriend and good friend <keyword id="14500954" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stephen-colletti" source="Orion">Stephen Colletti</keyword> breaking down each episode of the early oughts MTV docuseries that propelled them to fame as teenagers. </p><p>See the trailer below.</p>

Kristin Cavallari says she celebrated her weight gain on Instagram to fight 'warped' ideas about body image

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="12145913" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="laguna-beach" source="Orion">Laguna Beach</keyword>" star <keyword id="12466810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kristin-cavallari" source="Orion">Kristin Cavallari</keyword> is cohosting "Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen."</li><li>The podcast will look back on the '00s reality show including Cavallari's feud with <keyword id="14511103" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lauren-conrad" source="Orion">Lauren Conrad</keyword>. </li></ul><p>Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad were presented as bitter on-screen rivals on "Laguna Beach," but according to Cavallari, the pair were just "never friends" and not usually around one another before the show.</p><p>"Lauren and I have had a lot of great times together, but we just were never really friends," she told Insider in an interview. "To be honest, <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-podcast-villain-role-2022-7">MTV put us together</a>, but before that, we were never really around each other."</p><p>Cavallari — who founded lifestyle brand Uncommon James and starred on the now-defunct reality show "Very Cavallari" — will be hosting the <a href="https://dearmedia.com/">Dear Media</a> "Laguna Beach" rewatch podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-beach-with-kristin-and-stephen/id1630490097">"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen"</a> with her friend, ex-boyfriend, and "Laguna Beach" co-star <keyword id="14500954" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stephen-colletti" source="Orion">Stephen Colletti</keyword>.</p><p>"Laguna Beach" first aired on MTV in 2004. The reality series followed the lives and loves of <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-are-they-now-the-cast-of-laguna-beach-2020-10">well-off high school students</a> in Laguna Beach, California, for three seasons.</p><p>Colletti was positioned at the center of a love triangle including Cavallari and Conrad on the teen docuseries and viewers were so invested in the perceived competition for Colletti's heart that they picked sides by declaring themselves "Team Lauren" or "Team Kirsten." (Beloved early oughts teen brand Hollister <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1077807/30-things-we-noticed-when-we-watched-the-laguna-beach-premiere-15-years-later">even sold t-shirts</a> advocating for each side of the drama.)</p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="2502" width="3337" msid="93014197" hostid="261" sizebytes="168034"></div><p>Heidi Montag, who co-starred on the <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-hills-cast-now-and-then-2018-8">"Laguna Beach" spin-off  "The Hills,"</a> said on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast in August on 2021 that she <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/42ZrP6vWE19UtRD6OcWhNT">spent a fun weekend</a> with Cavallari and Conrad in the Bahamas at one point and Montag was hopeful it would lead to her then-friends sparking up a friendship of their own afterward — but it didn't happen: "After I left they became enemies again," said Montag. </p><p>"In a social setting, we definitely had a good time together, but she and I never, we just were never friends. There's nothing more to it other than that," Cavallari told Insider. "It just is what it is."</p><p>"I think not everyone has to be friends and not everyone is going to like each other. And I think that that's perfectly OK. As long as everyone's respectful of one another," the reality star continued. </p><p>"The difference on the show is I definitely wasn't respectful of her," she admitted. "Because I felt like at the time she was trying to steal my boyfriend." </p><p>Cavallari wrote in her book <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBalancing-Heels-Journey-Health-Happiness%2Fdp%2F1623366380">"Balancing In Heels: My Journey to Health, Happiness, and Making It All Work"</a> that she learned producers were encouraging her boyfriend to hang out with Conrad to ramp up the drama but at the time she felt threatened and behaved accordingly. </p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari" height="3353" width="4467" msid="93014198" hostid="261" sizebytes="500000"></div><p>Today, she says she handles her problems differently. Scenes of an 18-year-old Cavallari calling Conrad a "dumbass" to her face during their rivalry do not reflect how she solves conflicts at 35. </p><p>"As a kid, that was all I knew how to do," she said. "But now as an adult, I don't like everyone, but I'm not going to be mean. I think as long as we can treat each other with kindness, we don't all have to be best friends."</p><p>"I think that being on TV at a young age definitely forced me to grow up in certain aspects of my life," she added.</p><p>On the rewatch podcast, listeners will be able to hear what that growth sounds like as well as learn behind-the-scenes secrets about the show. "Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen" is now available on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-streaming">streaming</a> services. Check out the trailer below.</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVeAH_9MM34" frameborder="0"></iframe>

'Laguna Beach' star Kristin Cavallari says she and Lauren Conrad were 'never friends'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"Laguna Beach" star <keyword id="12466810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kristin-cavallari" source="Orion">Kristin Cavallari</keyword> is cohosting "Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen."</li><li>Looking back, she thinks producers pegged her to be the "villain" from the beginning of the series.</li></ul><p>"Laguna Beach" star Kristin Cavallari is revisiting her reality show roots.</p><p>Cavallari, who is hosting the new <a href="https://dearmedia.com/">Dear Media</a> "Laguna Beach" <keyword id="14500956" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rewatch-podcast" source="Orion">rewatch podcast</keyword> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-to-the-beach-with-kristin-and-stephen/id1630490097">"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen"</a> with her friend and former costar <keyword id="14500954" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="stephen-colletti" source="Orion">Stephen Colletti</keyword>, was only a 17-year-old high school junior when she starred on the groundbreaking MTV reality show. Now 35, she recognizes how obvious her "villainous" editing on the show would be.</p><p>"I think they obviously saw from me from the get-go that I was someone who did speak my mind," she told Insider in an interview promoting the new <keyword id="11918054" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="podcast" source="Orion">podcast</keyword>. She said she is now left "without a doubt" that producers pegged her for the "villain" role of the series right away. </p><p>Cavallari and Colletti, high-school sweethearts turned grown-up buddies, will be breaking down the real (and manufactured) drama that fueled the teen docuseries, which aired on MTV from 2004 to 2006. The show followed the friendships, family lives, and romances of affluent high school students in Laguna Beach, California for three seasons. It was full of conflict and once it aired, Cavallari was at the center of much of it. </p><p>"I had a strong personality. I have a strong presence and I think that's way easier to manipulate and edit into this <a href="https://www.insider.com/worst-reality-tv-villains-in-history-2017-7">villain role</a> than any other type of personality," she said.</p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="2670" width="3337" msid="92991203" hostid="261" sizebytes="180676"></div><p>Editing participants into a villain role <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2016/06/reality-tv-villain-how-to-create-one.html">is not an uncommon practice</a> in <keyword id="11899410" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="reality-tv" source="Orion">reality TV</keyword>.</p><p>"Selling Sunset" star Christine Quinn said she was also <a href="https://www.insider.com/christine-quinn-selling-sunset-producer-adam-divello-harassment-allegations-2022-5">pegged as the "villain"</a> of the cast on a May 18 episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast. Though Cavallari did not name any specific producers who edited her to be the villain, "Laguna Beach" and "Selling Sunset" were both executive produced by Adam DiVello, whom Quinn accused of punishing her for being "too honest" about how "Selling Sunset" was produced.</p><p>Other personalities presented on "Laguna Beach" were content to <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-are-they-now-the-cast-of-laguna-beach-2020-10">trade slippery insults in nail salons</a> and engage in sneaky gossip during joyrides. Cavallari was down to confront her enemies and demand more from her partner at a time when it was not popular for young girls to do so. Cavallari does think she has that side of her personality but does not think the show portrayed all sides of her. </p><p>She recalled being asked to repeatedly talk about things she "didn't really care about" on camera that contributed to what she did not realize would become major storylines. "That was all they really chose to focus on," Cavallari added. Her portrayal on the show soon became her public persona; years later, she was advised to "meet as many people as possible" so they could see how "different" she was from how she was portrayed on television. </p><p>At the time "Laguna Beach" was on the air, reality docudramas were relatively rare. Terms like <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/09/reality-tv-stars-bash-extreme-editing-or-frankenbiting/">frankenbiting</a>, a process by which storyboard editors can take clips of dialogue from separate conversations to form a sentence or add audio to a scene where a cast member is not actually present to make it appear as though they were, were not yet familiar to prospective reality television stars. "We were kind of just learning as we went," said Cavallari. </p><p>"I knew that we would film things out of order or they would have us have the same conversation a few different ways," she continued, adding she was unaware of the extent to which the footage was shaped by its storytellers. </p><p>Cavallari presented as confident and self-assured on the show, but she did not feel that way during filming. "It's interesting because that's how everyone perceives me. And watching 'Laguna Beach' now, I don't see a confident girl at all. I actually see someone who's extremely insecure. So it's interesting that was what people took away from it," she said. </p><p>Now, as an adult who says she's finally comfortable in her own skin, Cavallari is ready to revisit the experience with "crystal clear" vision.</p><p>"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen" is now available on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-streaming">streaming</a> services. Check out the trailer below.</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVeAH_9MM34" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Kristin Cavallari says 'Laguna Beach' producers 'without a doubt' pegged her for the 'villain role' from the beginning

<p class="drop-cap">When Kristin Cavallari is first introduced to audiences in the pilot episode of <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-are-they-now-the-cast-of-laguna-beach-2020-10">"Laguna Beach,"</a> the high school junior floats in her pool, wearing sunglasses and a mismatched red and flower print bikini.</p><p>She gets out to answer her cell phone, and chats with a friend about her <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-and-stephen-colletti-made-2000-for-laguna-beach-2022-7">plans with Stephen Colletti</a>, her sometimes-boyfriend who works at the local surf shop. She appears every bit the typical California teen: Pretty, popular, and put-together. But "Laguna Beach" viewers have already been told they're meant to hate her.</p><p>"Wherever Kristin went, drama followed," the show's narrator and de facto protagonist <a href="https://www.insider.com/lauren-conrad-stephen-colletti-regrets-calling-kristen-cavallari-slut-2022-11">Lauren Conrad says</a> moments before, by way of introducing the cast. "She thinks she's hot. Okay, I guess she is. But she can't stand me."</p><p>After gossiping, flirting, and fighting her way through two seasons of the MTV reality series "Laguna Beach" and two seasons of its spinoff "The Hills," Cavallari, now 36, knows she could step into the role of reality TV villain with her eyes closed. Not that she wants to — the CEO of the jewelry and <a href="https://uncommonjames.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lifestyle brand Uncommon James</a> and mom of three has plenty else going on.</p><p>But upon reflection, she admits she put on the façade of a confident, conflict-centric high schooler on "Laguna Beach," which aired on MTV for three seasons until 2006, to cover up deep insecurities.</p><div type="image" title="laguna beach" height="607" width="810" msid="103640976" hostid="261" sizebytes="38624"></div><p>"At the time, I was really upset because I felt like they really kind of screwed me in a lot of ways because they definitely made me <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-podcast-villain-role-2022-7">look like the villain</a>," Cavallari tells Insider of how she felt seeing herself on "Laguna."</p><p>It was hurtful, but reflecting on her teenage self nearly two decades later, she realizes she was an easy target because she was faking confidence to mask her sadness. Ultimately, she's made peace with the portrayal.</p><p>"I'm really happy with how everything turned out," she says. "I think that sort of jump-started this self-discovery journey that I've been on. It didn't happen overnight, but I got here."</p><p>On Tuesday, Cavallari launched her <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-be-honest-with-kristin-cavallari/id1700725168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first solo podcast, "Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari."</a> The Dear Media-backed show focuses on relationships in weekly episodes, featuring guests who run the gamut from celebrities, such as fellow reality TV star Stassi Schroeder, to experts. Cavallari tells Insider it's like no other project she's done in her career. Despite the name, the reason is not because she's been lying to her over 4.5 million Instagram followers about who she is. </p><p>It's because she finally feels free for the first time in her life. Now, she's taking control of her own story.</p><h2>It took Cavallari years to let go of the 'sad' girl we met on 'Laguna Beach'</h2><p>"What I had to do is cut my dad out of my life. That's been the most freeing thing I've ever done," Cavallari tells me over the phone from Nashville the week before her podcast launches. She's sitting on a porch swing in front of her home while we chat, taking in the view.</p><p>While Cavallari has spent years in the public eye, she's managed to keep her relationship with her family relatively private. But on the podcast, Cavallari goes there, describing her father as a narcissist and explaining how being raised by him affected her worldview.</p><p>"How men saw me was really, really important to me. I was essentially looking for men to fill a void that I felt within myself," she says on her first solo episode released Sept. 12, titled "Holy Sh*t This Is Really Happening."</p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari." height="6192" width="8256" msid="103641169" hostid="261" sizebytes="5967594"></div><p>Cavallari tells me she realized she was attracting men similar to her father, and that she has a tendency to push down her emotions to avoid getting hurt. So she turned to hypnotherapy and a type of psychotherapy called <a href="https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/shadow-work">shadow work</a> to help her access her subconscious mind and let go of her childhood trauma.</p><p>"I was so sad deep down," Cavallari says, reflecting on the teenage girl the world met via <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-stephen-room-prom-2022-7">reality TV</a>. "I was really longing for a connection with someone."</p><h2>She's removing the glossy lens from her life in favor of personal growth</h2><p>Two years after "The Hills" ended in 2010, Cavallari became a mom to son Camden Jack Cutler in 2012. She knew it was the most important role of her life.</p><p>Then, she became a wife, too, marrying former NFL star Jay Cutler <a href="https://people.com/tv/kristin-cavallari-jay-cutler-relationship-timeline/#:~:text=June%207%2C%202013%3A%20Kristin%20Cavallari%20and%20Jay%20Cutler%20get%20married&amp;text=On%20June%207%2C%202013%2C%20Cavallari,a%20photo%20of%20their%20rings." target="_blank" rel="noopener">in July 2013.</a> The couple settled into their new family life in Nashville, having two more children by the time Cavallari published her 2016 New York Times best-selling book, "Balancing in Heels."</p><p>Part autobiography, part lifestyle guide, <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-sheet-pan-nacho-recipe-true-comfort-2020-9">part cookbook,</a> the book presents Cavallari as a woman who has it all: a family, a husband, a business of her own. But in covering so much — "Balancing in Heels" offers everything from relationship advice to recipes to exercise tips — Cavallari now feels it fell short, calling it "a watered-down version of what it could have been." She says she was too guarded to be truly vulnerable in the book. Thinking about the image she was trying to present at the time makes her cringe.</p><p>"I didn't really want to let people in. I was trying to figure out my own shit," she says, adding that she probably would have said she was being real at the time because she <em>had </em>evolved since she was a teenager making eyes at Stephen Colletti from across the table. It just wasn't real enough.</p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari" height="3353" width="4467" msid="103641171" hostid="261" sizebytes="500000"></div><p>In 2017, she launched the jewelry and lifestyle brand <a href="https://uncommonjames.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uncommon James</a>, named in part for her youngest child, daughter Saylor James Cutler.</p><p>Then, almost a decade after saying goodbye to Brody Jenner in favor of Europe on "The Hills" series finale, Cavallari returned to her reality TV roots for the E! show "Very Cavallari" in 2018.</p><p>This time, Cavallari happily relinquished the role of the villain and picked up the title of executive producer. Though she's the face of the series that bears her name, the show, which ran for three seasons, mostly focused on the messy lives of the <a href="https://uncommonjames.com/collections/uncommon-beauty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uncommon James</a> staff. That was largely by design: Cavallari is open about the fact that she did the show to promote her business as she prepared to open her flagship Uncommon James store in Nashville.</p><p>"The storylines were complete bullshit for the most part," Cavallari says. "I mean, that's marketing. And I think I'm pretty good at marketing."</p><p>Being an executive producer also afforded Cavallari more control over her image than she ever had <a href="https://www.insider.com/surprising-things-about-the-hills-2018-8">on "The Hills"</a> or "Laguna Beach."</p><blockquote class="pullquote-wrapper pullquote-breakout"><q class="pullquote-quotation">I'm much happier not being on TV. My life is just way more peaceful not having a TV show about my life.</q></blockquote><p>"I had the freedom to take things out if I wanted to, and I did," she says.</p><p>As someone who doesn't put her kids on social media, the only glimpse of Cavallari's personal life present on "Very Cavallari" was through brief scenes with Cutler, and those never exposed more than a few marital spats. "I felt as though I had the safety net, which was really nice," she adds.</p><p>But a month after <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-jay-cutler-divorce-breakup-separated-2020-4">Cavallari and Cutler announced their divorce</a> in April 2020 after nearly seven years of marriage, <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/kristin-cavallari-ends-very-cavallari-series-amid-divorce-jay-cutler-t182048" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cavallari announced she'd chosen not to continue "Very Cavallari"</a> as she embarked on this "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAYgJAnnGYt/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=5f357759-e1fb-44a7-9f4f-1f7b3efe0750">new chapter</a>" of her life.</p><p>Don't expect the topic of divorce to come up on "Let's Be Honest," either.</p><p>"To be completely honest, it's been three and a half years, I'm really sick of talking about divorce. I just feel like, 'Can we move on from that, please?'" she says. "I just feel like I don't need to identify with being divorced."  </p><div type="image" title="Cavallari visited New York in April." height="2764" width="3685" msid="103641173" hostid="261" sizebytes="274656"></div><p>She is dating, but says she's saving some of those stories for the podcast and will be keeping her suitors anonymous. "It just seems like if I'm dating someone, people want to talk about me more," she says. She knows why, but that doesn't mean she has to like it.</p><p>These days, Cavallari is more focused on her personal growth. "I just feel like everything I'm doing now, there's a real sense of freedom in it, and that feels really, really good."</p><p>That means she's done with reality TV, too.</p><p>"People think I live this very glamorous, big life. I really don't," she says. "I'm much happier not being on TV. My life is just way more peaceful not having a TV show about my life."</p>

Kristin Cavallari on her new podcast and why she's done with reality TV for good

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Lauren Conrad sat down with Stephen Colletti and Kristin Cavallari for their podcast. </li></ul><ul class="summary-list"><li>The "Laguna Beach" star revealed her greatest regret from her time on reality television. </li></ul><ul class="summary-list"></ul><p>Lauren Conrad apologized to former "Laguna Beach" costar Kristin Cavallari for calling her a "slut" during a trip to Cabo on the hit MTV show.</p><p>"I called you a slut," she said to Cavallari on Dear Media's "Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen" podcast. "I'm so sorry."</p><p>"Thank you," replied Cavallari.</p><p>In season one, episode five, of "Laguna Beach," the cast of <a href="https://www.insider.com/where-are-they-now-the-cast-of-laguna-beach-2020-10">high school kids</a> headed to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on their annual spring break trip. </p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="2502" width="3337" msid="95384657" hostid="261" sizebytes="168034"></div><p>Cavallari got into an intense fight with her ex-boyfriend and current cohost  Stephen Colletti in a bar on the trip. He repeatedly called her a slut after she was dancing on the bar in a <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktoker-viral-diesel-micro-miniskirt-review-2022-11">miniskirt</a>. "You look so good. Keep dancing on the bar, slut," he told her. He dumped her in front of everyone and insisted he could do better. </p><p>The next morning Colletti, Conrad, and some friends were recapping the evening for the show when Conrad said: "She's wearing a skirt and a little thong and she's up there on the pole. She knows that's slutty." </p><p>"I couldn't believe I did that," Conrad reminisced on the podcast. "Where I'm at now, I would never call another woman that, or girl." </p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="2684" width="3576" msid="95384658" hostid="261" sizebytes="663764"></div>Conrad said she was being judgmental and admitted she was doing "the exact same thing" the week prior, before the cameras arrived.<p>"That was my thing. I was like, 'I was not the only one dancing on a bar, thank you,'" said a vindicated Cavallari. </p><p>"I mean, I didn't do it on camera," replied Conrad as the former castmates erupted into laughter. </p><p>Cavallari also apologized to Conrad for calling her names on camera. "When I watch it now, I'm like, I wasn't confident at all. <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-podcast-villain-role-2022-7">I was actually so insecure</a>," said the "Very Cavallari" star. "I took it out on you in a lot of ways," she added. </p><div type="image" title="Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti" height="1500" width="2000" msid="95384659" hostid="261" sizebytes="185194"></div><p>During an <a href="https://www.insider.com/kristin-cavallari-laguna-beach-stephen-room-prom-2022-7">interview with Insider in July</a>, Colletti confirmed that his conduct in the episode was his biggest regret from the series as well. </p><p>"There was a long sequence of events with relationships in my life and how I was handling them that led up to a moment where I was excessively drinking and didn't have my best moment, and I lashed out at Kristin in a way, and it was very inappropriate," said Colletti. </p><p>The childhood exes have worked past their drama and remain good friends. They have also maintained connections with some of their cast mates. "There's a bond that doing this show created between all the cast members," Colletti told Insider. "We grew up in a very kind, warm community of people." </p><p>"Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen" is now available on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/streaming/what-is-streaming">streaming</a> services. </p>

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