Heidi Montag
Montag at the second-issue release ofGirls Gone Wild magazine party inHollywood, 2008.
Born	Heidi Blair Montag (1986-09-15)September 15, 1986 (age 39) Crested Butte, Colorado, U.S.
Occupations	Reality television personality singer
Years active	2004–present
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Spencer Pratt ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	2
Relatives	Holly Montag (sister) Stephanie Pratt (sister-in-law)

Heidi Blair Pratt (néeMontag; born September 15, 1986)^[1] is an American reality television personality and singer. In 2006, Montag came to prominence after being cast in theMTVreality television seriesThe Hills. The show chronicled the personal and professional lives ofLauren Conrad, Montag, and friendsAudrina Patridge andWhitney Port. During its production, she briefly attended theFashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and was "employed" by event planning company Bolthouse Productions. As the series progressed, Montag began dating fellow cast memberSpencer Pratt, which ultimately ended her friendship with Conrad. Their ensuing feud became the central focus of the series and was carried through each subsequent season.

The couple, jointly nicknamed "Speidi", married in April 2009. Later that year, they made controversial appearances on thesecond season of theAmerican version ofI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! In January 2010, Montag released her debut studio albumSuperficial; it was critically panned and commercially unsuccessful at the time, failing to earn back the money she spent making it.^[2][3][4]

Montag received widespread criticism after undergoing ten cosmetic surgery procedures in one day. In 2011, Montag was featured on the television seriesFamous Food, where she and several celebrities competed for a restaurant partnership. Two years later, she and Pratt competed as a single entity on theeleventh series of theBritish version ofCelebrity Big Brother, and returned to the series with Pratt as an All-Star forCelebrity Big Brother 19. Montag released her second studio album,Heidiwood on May 30, 2025.

Heidi Blair Montag was born September 15, 1986, inCrested Butte, Colorado,^[1] toGerman American parents Darlene (née Seiden) and Bill Montag.^[5] After divorcing, her mother Darlene married Tim Egelhoff; they owned The Timberline restaurant for 21 years until its closing in 2010.^[6] Montag has an older sisterHolly, also a reality television personality, and a younger brother Sky.^[7] Their father Bill later married Terri O'Hara; their step-brother Eric O'Hara died in 2008 after an accidental fall from an icy roof.^[8]

After graduating from high school, Montag moved to California and attended theAcademy of Art University inSan Francisco for one semester. During freshman orientation, she befriended Lauren Conrad, who at the time was a primary cast member of theMTVreality television seriesLaguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After both transferred to theFashion Institute of Design & Merchandising inLos Angeles, California, Montag was subsequently featured in four episodes during the series' second season.^[1] However, after failing to find the school "challenging", she dropped out and received employment from Bolthouse Productions as an assistant. Though later interviews with Montag revealed that the position at Bolthouse was all a set up for The Hills and she was never promoted.^[9][10][11]

After moving toLos Angeles in 2006, theLaguna Beachspin-off seriesThe Hills was developed to chronicle the lives of then-housemates Conrad and Montag and friendsAudrina Patridge andWhitney Port.^[12] That year, she began a short-lived relationship with Jordan Eubanks; she described its end as "the best decision of [her] life".^[13] By the second season, Montag and Conrad's friendship had deteriorated after the former began dating and later moved in withSpencer Pratt.^[14][15] During the third season, Conrad ended her friendship with Montag after she suspected that Pratt was responsible for rumors of a sex tape involving her and her former boyfriend Jason Wahler; the ensuing feud carried through each subsequent season.^[16]

In August, she entered the music industry and began recording her debutstudio album. Later that month, the song "Body Language" wasleaked on the internet, and featured an uncredited rap verse from Pratt.^[17] The following month, she confirmed toUs Weekly that she had undergone abreast augmentation andrhinoplasty five months prior.^[18] Montag's first promotional single and its accompanying music video "Higher" were released in February 2008.^[19]

Later that same month, she appeared on the cover ofMaxim.^[11] Montag collaborated withAnchor Blue to launch her first clothing line "Heidiwood" in April.^[20] Her contract was not renewed the following year after the company decided against featuring celebrity endorsements in future advertising.^[21]

After several additional unauthorized leaks, Montag enlisted songwriterCathy Dennis to continue work on her album.^[22] She released her first twoextended playsWherever I Am andHere She Is... in 2009.^[23][24] The former included the song "More Is More"; debuting at number 50 on the USBillboardHot Dance Club Songs chart, it became her first and only song to chart in the country.^[25] Later that year, she and Pratt appeared on thesecond season of theAmerican version ofI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in support of the "Feed the Children" foundation.^[26] They quit after Montag was hospitalized with a gastric ulcer^[27] and later created controversy after alleging that they were subject to torture during production.^[28] After leaving the series, Montag and Pratt became notorious for their antics and antagonistic roles, notably during an interview withAl Roker ofToday,^[29] and were described as "everything that's wrong with America".^[30] In August, she performed her first official single, the finished version of "Body Language", at theMiss Universe 2009; her appearance was met with a negative critical response, who criticized its overall production.^[31][32] The following month, she appeared on the cover ofPlayboy.^[33] In November, Montag and Pratt released the bookHow to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture.^[34]

In January 2010, Montag revealed toPeople that she had undergone ten cosmetic surgery procedures in a single day two months prior, performed byFrank Ryan. Among the procedures were brow-lifts, ear-pinnings, a chin reduction, as well as a second rhinoplasty and second breast augmentation. She commented that she almost died from too muchDemerol, reducing her heart rate to five beats per minute.^[35] Her debut studio albumSuperficial was digitally released later that month to an overwhelmingly negative critical response from critics.^[36] The self-funded record cost nearly $2 million and sold approximately 1,000 copies in first-week downloads, failing to earn back the money spent making it.^[37] In May, she and Pratt made their final appearance onThe Hills halfway through the sixth and final season.^[38]

After her exit fromThe Hills, Montag auditioned for the replacement ofMegan Fox in the third installment of theTransformers series, but was ultimately not featured in the film.^[39] In June 2010, she and producer Steve Morales commenced work on her unreleased second studio album.^[40] The following month, Montag filed for divorce from Pratt, citingirreconcilable differences in the petition.^[41] However, they called it off in September after confessing that the action was intended to boost Montag's ailing career.^[42] In November, they renewed their vows inCarpinteria, California.^[43] In February 2011, Montag made her feature film debut as Kimberly inJust Go with It.^[44] Later that year, she appeared on theVH1 reality television seriesFamous Food, where she competed against other celebrities for a partnership stake in a restaurant in which they worked to open.^[45] In October, Montag began writing a memoir.^[46] The following year, she released her third extended playDreams Come True.^[47][48]

In January 2013, Montag and Pratt as a single entity competed as housemates on theeleventh series of theBritish version ofCelebrity Big Brother,^[49] where they notably developed a minor feud with singer and television personalityRylan Clark.^[50] They were named the runners-up, losing to Clark.^[51] On February 18,Channel 5 aired a one-off television special discussing Montag and Pratt's rise to prominence, titledSpeidi: Scandal, Secrets & Surgery!.^[52] Later that year, they launched theSpeidi Show, which was initially assumed to be aweb series in which the couple used a different reality television format for each installment. However, the project was later revealed to be an example of networked improv narrative, where Montag and Pratt collaborated with Mark Marino and Rob Wittig to create aTwitter game in which players Live Tweet an imaginary show.^[53] In October 2013, Montag revealed that her original F-cup breast implants resulted in severe health issues, and underwent abreast reduction surgery to replace them with D-cup implants.^[54] In December 2013, Montag stated that she and Conrad have "talked a few times" since the series' conclusion, elaborating that "it's unfortunate things happened the way that it did, but we're both different people now, older and more mature."^[55]

However, in 2015, Montag angrily excoriated Conrad when she appeared onMarriage Boot Camp, during a sequence where the contestants were asked to forgive someone who had hurt them in the past; Montag told a stand-in for Conrad that Conrad had "ruined my life with her lies", said that Conrad DID have a sex tape and had falsely blamed it on her, and that she "forgave" Conrad for being terrible and trying to ruin her life. Montag was universally lambasted for bringing up the sex tape lies anew, parroting the views of Pratt (who Conrad actually blamed for spreading the false rumors; Conrad felt Montag knew he was lying but took Pratt's side because she loved him) and trying to use Conrad's name to get publicity for herself. She and Pratt appeared in the television specialAfter Shock: Heidi & Spencer, which premiered on December 9, 2013, onE!, during which they admitted that many of the situations they were involved with in the various reality series they starred on were in fact made up by the shows producers.^[56] Montag and Pratt later appeared on an episode ofCelebrity Wife Swap in June 2014, for which they swapped with Olympic athleteAmanda Beard and her husband Sacha Brown.^[57] In October 2015, Montag and her husband made several media appearances that were largely devoted to two subjects: claiming that their image as terrible people stemming fromThe Hills was not factual and, somewhat divergently, their intense dislike ofLauren Conrad, which included Montag's husband admitting he spread rumors (which Montag said were true but have never been proven) that Conrad made a sex tape with a former boyfriend. Montag also claimed she had been paid to remain Conrad's friend during her time on the show, while also adding she had reconciled with her family to her husband's displeasure.^[58]

In 2017, Montag re-entered theCelebrity Big Brother with her husband. On day 18 the couple were eternally nominated byJames Cosmo, which they did not have a good reaction to. They were saved in an 8-person eviction on day 22 however, they were evicted on day 25 againstKim Woodburn,Jessica Cunningham,Bianca Gascoigne andJedward. Montag and Pratt were reunited with their rival,Rylan Clark-Neal, onBig Brother's Bit on the Side that night.

At the2018 MTV Video Music Awards,MTV announced a reboot ofThe Hills entitledThe Hills: New Beginnings, slated to premiere in 2019. Montag was announced as part of the cast of the new series.^[59][60][61] The series premiered on June 24 and later got renewed for a second season.^[62][63] While filming, Montag started working on new music and released aChristian pop single titled "Glitter and Glory".^[64]

In 2023, "I'll Do It" from Montag’s debut studio albumSuperficial went viral on TikTok. Following the success of the song, she released the song as the fourth single from the album. Due to the song gaining traction, Montag expressed her desire to return to the music industry and released her comeback single "Wet Hot Summer" on June 28, 2024. On November 12, 2024, Montag released "Fashion" as apromotional single. The song was originally supposed to be released in 2009 with songwriting credits fromLady Gaga andRedOne, in which they both initially allowed her to release her version of the song. Montag's version then leaked and received negative reviews from critics, which then led to Gaga releasing the song, which was featured on thesoundtrack for the 2009 filmConfessions of A Shopaholic.^[65]

Due to losing her home in the LA fires, in January 2025; a decade after its original release, Montag's albumSuperficial, topped theiTunes music charts in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, and Oman.^[66][67] On January 12, 2025,Superficial ranked number one in the United States.^[68][69]

During the fourth season ofThe Hills, Montag and Pratteloped to Mexico, where they married on November 20, 2008.^[70][71] A wedding ceremony was held on April 25, 2009, inPasadena, California.^[71][72] Their son Gunner Stone was born on October 1, 2017.^[73] Montag announced she was pregnant with her second child with Pratt in June 2022.^[74] She gave birth to their second son, Ryker Pratt, on November 17, 2022.^[75]

On January 7, 2025, Heidi and Spencer lost their home in thePacific Palisades fire.^[76]

Montag is a registeredRepublican. She supportedJohn McCain's2008 presidental campaign, and supportedSarah Palin, stating "Sarah Palin will do well. She is such a strong, independent woman. I'm her biggest fan."^[77]

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