Lauren Conrad was a reality TV icon during the early 2000s, but more than a decade after leaving The Hills, she’s living a much calmer life — and couldn’t be happier.

“I don’t [miss it].

I’m so happy,” Conrad told former Laguna Beach costar Kristin Cavallari during an April 2026 appearance on her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast.

Conrad noted that she “enjoyed” being on the small screen “while I had it” but now she loves “just being with my fam and my friends and living a quieter life.” Conrad made a big splash on reality TV when she starred in and narrated season 1 of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.

The MTV series, which premiered in 2004, followed Conrad a.k.a.

“LC” and her friends from Laguna Beach, California, as they navigated their senior year in high school.

She returned for season 2 — which Cavallari narrated — before Conrad got her own spinoff, The Hills, in 2006.

Conrad remained the lead on the series, which focused on her life in Los Angeles, for five seasons, exiting the show in 2009.

Since then, she has remained outside the spotlight as much as possible, only returning to TV in April 2026 for Roku’s The Reunion: Laguna Beach special.

Scroll down to see what Conrad has been doing since her reality TV departure: Lauren Conrad Is Still Living in Laguna Beach Lauren Conrad told Kristin Cavallari in April 2026 that she moved back down to Laguna Beach from Los Angeles when she was pregnant with her first child in 2017.

“We live a really quiet life.

A lot of our friends have kids the same age.

It feels like a different chapter, a different life,” Conrad said of living in her hometown as an adult.

“It’s really a special place.

It feels like a small town still.

It’s such a nice community.” Lauren Conrad Is Married With 2 Kids Lauren Conrad was part of Laguna Beach’s infamous love triangle with Kristin Cavallari and Stephen Colletti before romancing former classmate Jason Wahler during The Hills.

She dated other suitors before she found The One in husband William Tell.

“It was just easy with him,” Conrad said on the April 2026 “Let’s Be Honest” podcast of her connection with Tell, who she was set up with on a blind date for Valentine’s Day after initially meeting when she was a teenager.

“It felt very safe.

I loved him very quickly.

Like, too quickly.

I think we were like a month in and openly in love.” Conrad and Tell were introduced in 2012 — years after she saw his band Something Corporate play — and got married two years later.

The couple went on to welcome two sons, Liam and Charlie, in 2017 and 2019, respectively.

Conrad revealed that while she and Tell are “really aligned on what we want out of life,” she claimed he is a “much better parent than....