When Heidi Montag moved from Colorado to study fashion at San Francisco's Academy of Art University in 2005, no-one could have predicted what would happen next.
There, she became best friends with Lauren Conrad - who was already starring in MTV's Laguna Beach - and when they both transferred to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles after just one term, spin-off show The Hills was born.
At 19, Heidi had fame and fortune and in 2007 she also found love, meeting 22-year-old producer Spencer Pratt at a nightclub while filming for the show.
They married in April 2009 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, California - in front of the cameras, of course.
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