Heidi Montag thinks her former TV foe Lauren Conrad should have been much more successful in her career.
Montag, 34, quipped during a new interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that Conrad, 35, should have gone on to become the most successful “Hills” alum, but “she is not where she should” be “at all” these days.
“Kristin [Cavallari], let’s be honest, is the most successful,” Montag told host Alex Cooper on Tuesday’s episode.
While Conrad’s net worth is reportedly valued at $40 million thanks to multiple fashion lines, a beauty brand and nine books, Montag believes her former co-star should have been as successful as billionaire Kylie Jenner.
“I feel like Lauren didn’t make it like she should have,” Montag said. “She should be Kylie. She was so good at makeup. She should have the done tutorials. If she had a good team, she’d be a billionaire, she’d be a hundred millionaire. She is not where she should have been at all.”
She continued, “She has a Kohl’s line — great, whatever. But she should be a hundred millionaire. Are you kidding me? Who gets that big promotion, that big fame, that big engine behind her, the loved one, the this-and-that, the narrator? No one even gets the narrator show. Kylie didn’t get a narrator show. She should be so rich.”
Montag added that she looks at Conrad as the “Mary Tyler Moore” of their time, explaining that MTV wanted her to be “vanilla.”
“Everyone [had] drama around her and she’s like the sacred one,” she said.
Montag and Conrad’s on-screen drama dates back to Season 3 of “The Hills” (2008), when Conrad believed that Montag and her now-husband, Spencer Pratt, started a rumor that she made a sex tape with her then-boyfriend, Jason Wahler.
Conrad infamously yelled at Montag in a club, “You know what you did!” thus ending their friendship.
While Conrad welcomed her second child in 2019 and started a beauty line in 2020, Montag, who is also a mom, returned for their show’s reboot, “The Hills: New Beginnings.”
Cavallari, meanwhile, starred in her own E! spinoff, “Very Cavallari” for three seasons before it ended in 2020. She also founded her own lifestyle brand — and brick-and-mortar store — Uncommon James.
Additionally, she released three books: a memoir, “Balancing in Heels,” and two cookbooks, “True Roots” and “True Comfort.”
“The Hills” star Brody Jenner told Page Six in a recent interview that he would love to see the Cavallari, 34, back on MTV after she filmed a cameo for the show’s newest iteration this season, saying, “Everybody enjoyed having her around — it was a great experience. She’s so much fun and so cool to hang with. I think we all love her to death. We want her back full time.”
It looks like the rest of the drama is still unwritten.