Minus her hit TV show (which seriously plummeted upon her leave), it seems like Lauren Conrad has it all! A hottie BF, her own fashion line, a best-selling book series, and yes… even some cellulite!

“About a year ago, I looked down and thought, ‘I have cellulite. Where did that come from?’” the former reality star says in the latest issue of Glamour.

She admits she “went through treatments” but just knew her body “was like, ‘It’s not going anywhere.’”

And while her cellulite made her a little nervous at first, Lauren has embraced it. Now her other fear… that’s a little shocking!

“I get very uncomfortable with people watching me,” she says. “And I know that sounds silly because of the show, but we were filming with people that we’d known for years, and it was a job.”

Looking back, Lauren admits one of the main reasons she left her reality show was to work on her budding relationship with My Boys actor Kyle Howard.

“I don’t have to clear my movie dates with a filming crew,” she says of life after The Hills with her BF since 2008.

And while she doesn’t really miss the spotlight, she admits there were some perks to being a reality star.

“As soon as I started doing the show, I never had a boyfriend off-camera. It wasn’t allowed. So I had a rule — I would date someone for a few weeks, and that was it,” she says. “Anyway, the first two weeks are the best!”

Well he’s no Spencer Pratt, but Kyle seems like a great guy! We bet he doesn’t even mind Lauren’s cellulite…

Unlike several other MTV-made reality stars, Lauren Conrad hopped a flight into Chicago’s winter-wonderland early Thursday morning, paying a visit to DePaul’s Barnes and Noble.

As the last stop on her tour, Conrad spoke to an eager audience to promote her latest book, endorsement deal with Mark, and current social issues.

Her lecture — which is dedicated to helping to stop violence in relationships — drew a very large crowd of female fans, leaving our very own Boots Boy in the minority!

In addition to speaking on this important cause, Conrad also had the opportunity to design a few pieces of jewelry for the company. All proceeds from her designs go to an organization to help women in violent relationships.

Unfortunately, LC wasn’t to eager to discuss details on her personal life. However, her publicist asked a few questions regarding life after The Hills.

“It’s nice, more relaxed, and I spend a lot less time on what I look like,” Conrad explained.

She continued to talk about the Mark makeup line and answered a rehearsed set of questions, which she conspicuously read straight from a sheet of paper.

During the meet-and-greet, fans were disappointed to find that The Hill’s star wouldn’t be posing for photos but rather only signing copies of her book.

However, despite the lack of photo opportunity and deep secret dishing, LC made sure her visit was not a complete loss for her die-hard fans.

“I was upset we couldn’t pose with her, but she is here promoting a very good cause and is very sweet when you go up to meet her! She look’s so pretty in person, almost fake,” a fan exclaimed.

And while we agree she was very sweet in person, we couldn’t help but notice the shameless promotion for her newest novel, Sweet Little Lies! So while it appeared she was selflessly promoting a great cause, we believe she was really there to rank up the $$$ in book sales. Greedy little bitch!

We did get a chance to briefly chat with Lauren about her buddy Frankie Delgado and spilled the beans that he missed her holiday party to get his drink on at Chicago hotspot Manor!

“So that’s where he was!” she said.

Uhh, duh! Why spend the holiday’s with LC when you could spend it in Chi-Town with the one and only Boots Boy?!

Frankie definitely had the right idea!

Lauren Conrad tells Seventeen magazine that her days of being a push-over are DUNZO!

The former Hills star opened up to the teen mag about her past relationships while filming for her hit reality show and how they were everything but great!

“I knew back back then [that] I was being cheated on,” she admits in the March issue of Seventeen magazine.

Hmm, so who might she be referring to? While LC wouldn’t names names, we can only guess it’d be one of her former reality-TV boyfriends, which include low-life Jason Wahler, Ste-phen Colletti and Boots Girls’ fave, Brody Jenner. She must’ve been infatuated with their good looks and boyish charm, because Conrad admits to ignoring their cheating ways.

“I overlooked it,” she says.

Since ditching reality-TV, Conrad had learned how to put her foot down when it comes to douche bag cheaters!

“The more confident me has come to the point where I’ve finally realized it’s not something that everyone does. It’s not okay to have your guy hook up with someone else. You deserve more.”

While filming for The Hills in 2008, Conrad began dating My Boys actor Kyle Howard, but chose to keep that part of her life away from the cameras. “By the time I had met Kyle, I had already perfected my ‘double life,’” she explains. “There was my TV life and my real life,” she explains.

While Kyle may not be as hot as Lauren’s former flings, at least he knows how to treat a girl!

She may be from the Hollywood Hills, but it turns out Lauren Conrad is more of a Jersey Shore kinda girl!

“I love it!” Lauren told Usmagazine.com on Sunday.

“We had a double episode last night and it was the highlight of my week. It was awesome,” Lauren admitted. And on her old series, The Hills which is rapidly losing viewers, Lauren said, “I actually haven’t seen it since I left [in spring 2009].”

And while Lauren is now a fashion designer and bestselling author, she’s never too busy to catch her favorite new show. In fact, she was able to give a fully detailed recap of the most recent action-packed episode. “There was this one part, where Ronnie hits the guy and they don’t really get the hits but he like knocks him cold. He knocks him out and he runs away and just walks away and he’s all, ‘one shot kid.’ And the guy is out!”

And of the entire cast, Lauren singles out Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, saying, “I have a love-hate [relationship] with The Situation. I’m like, ‘you are not that cool but then I am like, ‘Uuugh you are so entertaining!’ I really like JWoww just because she can throw a punch.”

JWoww is our favorite too. She seems the most normal and drama-free, but the bad-ass bitch can FOR SURE throw a mean punch!

Will some of Lauren Conrad’s fellow Hills stars be making an appearance in her upcoming L.A. Candy movie?

Though MTV reports may indicate so, there is no truth behind the rumor!

“I jokingly said, ‘Oh, Lo is going to star in it,’” Conrad told Usmagazine.com Tuesday at Lucky magazine and Madewell’s Fall 2009 Denim Tour in Hollywood. “People reported that Lo was going to star in the movie, and I was totally kidding!”

Thank God! The only thing these Hills girls are good at is acting like catty bitches!

Conrad told Us that she is “excited” to be an executive producer. “It’s my new hat,” she said. “I like hats, and I get to wear lots of them!”

Wow! Look at LC being all witty… that’s definitely a first! Looks like leaving The Hills may have given this chick an actual personality!

Never in her dreams did Conrad thing her first-time novel would ever be turned into a movie.

“I was just hoping that the book did well,” she said. “It’s a little surreal, but it’s cool!”

Definitely exciting and all but girl shouldn’t get too giddy because we honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it went straight to DVD!

Props to Lauren though for being the only sensible person from that fake-ass show! She appears to be the only one with enough common sense to realize one can’t live the rest of their life on reality-TV…

Although Lauren Conrad’s stint on MTV’s The Hills has been over since May, has the former star of the show been keeping up with the new season?

When asked by a reporter at the 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards in L.A. Sunday night if she’s been tuning it, Conrad said, “I haven’t,” according to OK! Magazine.

Though Conrad may have narrated the show before, there’s a new bitch running The Hills drama now and that’s LC’s former high school rival Kristin Cavallari! The season is only two episodes in and of course the blondie has been smack dab in the middle of EVERYTHING!

“I always tended to kind of, you know, stay away from that,” she says of controversy. “I tried to just be in the background.”

You’re right girl, you’ve always been the boring one!

While LC’s buddies are still pretending to be real, she’s moved onto bigger and better things, such as her new clothing line which just debuted at Kohls stores.

“It’s really exciting!” she says. “I think that there’s always a lot of pressure and build up to the launch, and when it does well it’s just such a relief.”

“I’ve moved on from just the stress of having to film and promote a show, to book deadlines and promoting clothing lines, so it’s just different, but it’s nice,” she adds.

As if we don’t get enough LA drama from The Hills, Lauren Conrad just snagged a film deal for her book, L.A. Candy.

Temple Hill Entertainment recently gained the screening rights to the novel that’s been on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 weeks.

The book follows a 19-year-old girl named Jane Roberts who moves to Hollywood and finds fame as a reality star. Hmm… sounds familiar.

“Lauren, who became an icon in that reality show world, came to us with a structure of how to tell the story in an interesting fashion that was separate and apart from the book,” Temple Hill producer Marty Bowen said. “We loved her take. Her book is an honest portrayal of what it must be like to set out to be normal, then sign on to become famous and eventually realize, wow, this isn’t at all what I’d planned for myself.”

Additionally, Lauren will take the role of executive producer on her film.

Reality star, best selling author and executive producer all at 23? Damn Lauren… we’re impressed!

So, who’s raking in the most moolah on MTV’s The Hills?

Although it’s only her first season, Kristin Cavallari earns $90,000 an episode!

Seems excessive right? Well, according to figures reported by the Daily Beast, Aurdrina Patridge and “Lo” Bosworth both earn $100,00 per episode!

As for Speidi, Heidi Montag nets $100,000 as well, but Spencer Pratt only gets $65,000.

And after discovering that Lauren Conrad made a whopping $125,000 an episode, we wonder why she ever left the show! She even had in her contract that no other character could match her salary.

Finally, poor Brody Jenner earns the least at $45,000 a show.

Essentially, these idiots earn thousands upon thousands of dollars for walking around, being their stupid selves while a camera follows them. Seriously?! It’s not like we’re in a recession or anything…

When it comes to reality drama, enough is enough. Lauren Conrad has starred in two “reality” series and for her… that’s enough!

Apparently, MTV has offered the retired-Hills star a Newlyweds-style reality show if she and her current boyfriend, Kyle Howard get engaged, reports In Touch Weekly.

However, when Usmagazine.com confronted Conrad about the tabloid rumor, she simply replied “no”, in addition to admitting it’s been “nice” not having the cameras follow her anymore.

She added that she most likely will not be watching the sixth season of The Hills, stating that, “when you’ve been a part of a show, it’s different to watch. It takes the entertainment factor out of it.”

CLEARLY, this girl is done with the reality show lifestyle. Additionally, she never even showed off her BF on The Hills so why would she make a show out of their relationship?! Based on previous couples that have debuted their unions, success is not an option when you exploit your personal-life on MTV. So good job Lauren, way to live and learn!

What’s the WEIRDEST thing Audrina Patridge has ever heard about herself?!

“That I have chin implants, cheek implants, a nose job … God, everything,” she tells the most recent issue of Maxim.

And, not only is her body constantly being judged, but her love life is scrutinized too.

“I took my brother out one night, and he was my boyfriend the next day,” says the Hills star, who is back together with on-again-off-again BMX BF Corey Bohan. “I went out with a cousin another night, then he was my boyfriend. Someone also said I was pregnant with somebody’s love child. I was like, ‘Do I look pregnant?’”

Also in the interview, Audrina talked about her buddies from The Hills.

“I barely talk to Lauren,” she says of Conrad, who left the show last season. “We’ll text every now and then, but that’s about it.”

As for newlywed Heidi Montag? “Heidi, um, keeps asking me to go to Bible study with her,” she says.

Haha, awkward…

Additionally, Audrina dished on why now it’s her time to leave the reality drama.

“You know, it’s just something that I felt inside,” she says. “I’m an adult now, and I don’t need all the petty drama and drinking and fighting. I’ve done that, and I’m ready to move on.”

She is however working on her own reality series and says it will be much different than The Hills.

“It’s a behind-the-scenes look at my life in L.A. — the movies and shoots and parties. It’s not as glamorous as it appears, plus it’ll actually feature people I know,” says the Sorority Row star. “It’s, like, real.”

Ha, our guess is that it’s probably just about as “real” as The Hills…