INTERVIEW: Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad on the cover of the October 2008 Issue of Seventeen Magazine.

On holding back to do season 3 of The Hills:
“I actually came dangerously close to not doing season three, because I really didn’t want to do the show with Heidi and Spencer. I’m not who they are. I don’t stage my own publicity. I just kind of live my life and do my job, and I don’t want to be grouped with them.Heidi and Spencer were always a part of the show, and they can’t all of a sudden make main characters disappear. And so we continue to follow their lives, and the producers keep letting Heidi and Spencer think there’s some hope [that we’ll make up].”

On Plastic Surgery:
"Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me -- or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't need to be done"

On Fame:
"The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ."

On Being a Role Model:
"I don't really have an obligation to behave in a certain way, but at the same time, there are little girls that watch the show. And I have little cousins that watch the show. And they're little!"

On Friendships:
"Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight," Conrad says. "They just want to become famous so badly, and that's never really made sense to me. I mean, it's fun to go out and do stuff in Hollywood, but if it was gone tomorrow, I really wouldn't be disappointed."