14 DAY TRIAL // Much ink has been wasted on speculating whether there was any aspect of the lives of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, Speidi for short, that was genuinely, 100 percent real. In a recent interview with the Daily Beast, the two admit that there wasn’t.
Everything about their life was fake or, if not, exaggerated for the sake of attention, the two admit. Their marriage, their relationship and even their breakup were all staged and twisted to make them appear more appealing to audiences.
They rose to fame with MTV’s “The Hills” and, in almost no time, they realized they must be constantly upping their game if they want to continue to hold on to the first page of all the celebrity magazines.
“Did you ever break up? Spencer: ‘No.’ Heidi: ‘No.’ Spencer: ‘Not for one minute.’ Heidi: ‘We’ve never even been apart.’ Which raises a larger point: Everything in this article that could be fact-checked through multiple independent sources, has been,” the Daily Beast article reads.
What wasn’t fake about the two was the money they made from, ironically, being so fake. Heidi and Spencer are now completely broke and living in his parents’ home because of the free rent.
They made millions – but just as quickly spent them. To maximize profits, they used their fame as best they knew how: they invested $2 million in Heidi’s music career, which tanked, while Spencer splurged on cars he never used, suits he never wore and crystals that made of him the butt of all jokes.
“I thought I was investing in myself and my brand. Like Kim [Kardashian]. When she buys these clothes, she’s investing in herself. Because she is a big brand and is likeable. I thought I had that potential,” Heidi says of how she burned through her savings.
“My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever,” she adds.
Now, with their careers as reality stars literally in the dumps, unemployed and unemployable, they know they made lots of mistakes that they regret – and they also wish they had the power to turn back time.
“We were living each other’s mistakes – everything we were doing, in retrospect, was a mistake. The second we continued on our quest for fame was a mistake,” Spencer says.
“This isn’t a business. That was the big thing I didn’t get: Reality TV is not a career. Anyone who says, ‘Oh, you can have a career in reality’ – that is a lie,” he adds.
See here for the full interview.