Heidi Montag
Montag attending the Girls Gone Wild Magazine second-issue party in Hollywood in June 2008.
Background information
Birth name	Heidi Blair Montag
Also known as	Heidi Pratt
Born	September 15, 1986 (1986-09-15) (age 23) Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Pop, synthpop, electropop
Occupations	Reality television personality, recording artist, fashion designer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Independent

Heidi Blair Pratt (née Montag; born September 15, 1986) is an American reality television personality and recording artist. Montag is known for appearing on the MTV reality series The Hills, which began airing in 2006. The series followed the life of Lauren Conrad, with whom Montag shared an apartment. During the series, Montag began dating fellow cast member Spencer Pratt, whom she eventually married in November 2008. The pair are currently filming the sixth season of the series, while Conrad left to pursue a career in the fashion industry.

Career

Reality TV

Born in Crested Butte, Colorado, Montag moved to California after graduating from high school where she enrolled at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. During freshman orientation, she met Lauren Conrad, who was then a featured cast member on the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After Montag and Conrad transferred to Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, Conrad received her own spin-off series 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. She eventually left the Fashion Institute in fall of 2005 when she was hired at Bolthouse Productions. According to Montag, she dropped out because she "did not find the school challenging." Within two years, she was promoted to event planner at Bolthouse, before being fired and then re-hired.

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. In the summer of 2006, Montag began dating fellow Hills cast member Spencer Pratt, a former manager of Brody Jenner. Season 2 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 fellow Hills cast member Audrina Patridge. On the Season 2 finale, Montag moved out of her apartment with Conrad to live with Pratt. Although Conrad maintained the two were still friends after Montag moved out, the friendship soon ended when Conrad blamed Montag and Pratt for spreading rumors about a sex tape featuring her and ex-boyfriend Jason Wahler. In October 2008, the pair reportedly ended their feud.

In August 2008, Conrad said that The Hills is "definitely reaching its end", citing the privacy pitfalls. Montag and Pratt have expressed an interest in adopting Conrad's lead role and narrator. In a recent radio interview with Ryan Seacrest, Montag said "I think that maybe Lauren is tired of [being on the show], but we’re just beginning," and that "We’re not even remotely sick of it." Whereas Pratt stated that, "sometimes the narrator has to throw their hate up on the wall and pass the mic", and expressed an interest in taking The Hills to a tenth season. In April 2009, Montag signed on to appear on the reality series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!. Her appearance on the show, alongside husband Spencer, was criticized after the couple claimed they were subject to torture and left the show's set multiple times before returning and ultimately withdrawing.

Acting career

In November 2008 Montag and Pratt shot scenes for an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The two appeared as themselves in an episode aired in January 2009. In 2010 Montag was casted in a cameo role in her first feature film, the Adam Sandler comedy Just Go with It.

Music career

In February 2007, Montag started work on an album with producer David Foster. It was also reported that she is on a one-song contract with Warner Bros., not a full studio contract as both Montag and her then-fiance Pratt had claimed.

On August 16, 2007, Ryan Seacrest premiered Montag's song "Body Language", featuring Pratt rapping, on his KIIS-FM radio show. Both Montag and Pratt denied the song was her intended first single, with Pratt telling Us Weekly the tune "was a song Heidi and I were doing for fun. Never would I rap on her first single!" 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 song, "Higher" received an online-only release on iTunes. 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."

In March 2009 Montag hired songwriter Cathy Dennis to work on her upcoming album. On April 1, 2009, she debuted her new song "Look How I'm Doing" on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM show.

On August 23, 2009 Montag performed "Body Language" during the Miss Universe 2009 pageant in the Bahamas in front of an expected worldwide audience of one billion. The song "Body Language" samples music from the hit "Situation" by Yazoo and it was performed by Montag during the presentation of all delegates in their swimming costumes.

Montag's debut album, Superficial was digitally released on January 11, 2010. The album sold less than 1,000 copies in its first day, and just over 1,000 copies its first week.

During early April of 2010, the music video for "Superficial" was released on YouTube.

Montag has expressed interest in releasing a Christian music album.

"More Is More" is Montag's only song that managed to chart.

Fashion line

Montag debuted her fashion line, Heidiwood, at a fashion show at the Hollywood and Highland shopping center in Hollywood on April 11, 2008. Shortly after, she promoted her line in New York City, at MTV's TRL, among other places.

Personal life

In 2005 Montag began dating Jordan Eubanks. Montag broke off her relationship with Eubanks in the spring of 2006, something she has described as "the best decision of [her] life" and "something that [she] should have done earlier".

In May 2007 she and Spencer Pratt announced their engagement. During The Hills season finale in December 2007, Heidi and Spencer broke off their engagement. During a broadcast of Ryan Seacrest's radio show, Spencer said that he was madly in love with Montag and trying to win her back. On November 20, 2008, Montag and Spencer had a marriage ceremony in Mexico. No family members were present and the wedding ceremony lasted 15 minutes. Montag and Pratt married a second time on April 25, 2009 in Pasadena, California. The two have three puppies, Dolly, Ninja, and Rambo. Montag has publicly identified as Christian.

On March 3, 2008, Montag's stepbrother Eric O'Hara was killed in an accident after a fall from an icy roof. O'Hara was a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and served the 82nd Airborne Division.

In an April 2008 interview Montag said she was a Republican and that she planned to vote for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. At the time, she was not registered to vote, but she said this was because she had been too busy and that she planned to register soon. In a later interview in July 2009 on Alex Jones' radio show, Montag retracted her Republican support and said she no longer believes in the left–right politics paradigm. During the interview Montag cited Jones' documentary The Obama Deception as her reason for changing her political viewpoint.

Plastic surgeries

After months of speculation and rumors, Montag said in September 2007 that she had breast augmentation, collagen lip injections, and rhinoplasty in April 2007.

In a 2010 interview with People magazine, Montag revealed that she had ten plastic surgery procedures done in one day which included brow lifts, ear-pinnings and a chin reduction. Montag said, "for the past three years, I've thought about what to have done [...] I'm beyond obsessed". She later revealed that she almost died from too much Demerol, reducing her breath rate to five breaths per minute, but said that it was still worth it.

She later shot a campaign ad with director Ron Howard called "Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic". It is a political related video that talks about the use of credit cards and how they're bad.

In early May 2010, husband Spencer Pratt spoke to Life & Style, saying that Heidi will be having a third breast augmentation to increase her breast size to an H-cup. Montag has already reached the FDA's maximum for implant sizes, so she plans to travel to Europe to have the work done. The magazine also reports that Montag wants the procedures done within the next couple of months, so she can film it for a reailty show pilot she and Spencer are pitching to E! and Oxygen.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

• Wherever I Am (2009)

1. "Your Love Found Me" – 3:52
2. "More Is More" – 3:06
3. "Party Is Wherever I Am" – 3:28
4. "Turn Ya Head" – 3:39
5. "Look How I'm Doing" – 3:39

• Here She Is… (2009)

1. "No More" – 4:05
2. "Overdosin'" – 3:45
3. "Look How I'm Doing" – 3:29
4. "Turn Ya Head" – 3:39
5. "More Is More" – 3:06
6. "Blackout" – 3:31
7. "Your Love Found Me" – 3:52

Singles

Promotional singles

• "Higher" (2008)
• "No More" (2008)
• "One More Drink" (2008)
• "Overdosin'" (2008)
• "Blackout" (2009)
• "Look How I'm Doing" (2009)
• "Body Language" (2009)
• "Sex Ed" (2010)
• "Trash Me" (2010)

Notable songs

• "Fashion" (2007)
• "More Is More" (2009)

Music Videos

• "Higher" (2008)
• "Overdosin" (2008)
• "Blackout" (2009)
• "Superficial" (2010) [1]

External links

• Official Website
• Heidi Montag at the Internet Movie Database
• Heidi Montag at TV.com
• Heidi Montag at Allmusic