Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari aka Kristin biography

Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari was born January 14, 1987, in Denver, Colorado. And that’s precisely where she might have stayed if her mother and father hadn’t run into some marital difficulties. After her parents decided to call it quits due to irreconcilable differences, Kristin and her mother moved to Barrington, Illinois, while her father and older brother Michael relocated to the sunny climes of Laguna Beach, California.

Naturally, it didn’t take long for Kristin to realize that she had received the raw end of the deal, and she soon began acting out at home and at school. Her surly behavior eventually forced her mother’s hand, and “Kris,” as she’s known to friends, was granted her wish to move to Laguna.

Although Kris immediately took to her new surroundings, school was another matter altogether. After a year of attending a stifling Catholic school, she transferred to a hip public school called Laguna High at the beginning of her sophomore year. The move clearly paid off and Kris was soon invited to audition for a new MTV reality show called Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.

Not surprisingly, producers fell in love with her combination of good looks and bad attitude, and the network soon turned its cameras on Kris and seven of her rich and beautiful friends. “It’s funny,” she says. “Literally we were all going to high school one day, then the next day everyone knows your little inside jokes.”

Although Kris stayed in the shadows for most of the first season, she emerged to rule the school during her senior year in 2005, quickly becoming the show’s breakout star. In fact, she was even nominated for “It Girl” of the year at VH1’s Big in ’05 Awards, and she topped out at number No. 8 on Reality TV Magazine's list of the Greatest Female Reality Stars of 2005.

Unlike some reality show stars who simply fade into oblivion, Kristin later parlayed her notoriety into an episode of Veronica Mars, in which she played a lesbian cheerleader. Added to that, she became a regular fixture on the late-night talk show circuit and she was the subject of a vehicular prank on Punk'd. Kristin also got her feet wet with modeling, appearing in glossy magazines such as Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, CosmoGIRL, Seventeen, Teen People, and Maxim, which put her on its annual Hot 100 list.

Although she enrolled at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Kristin is still pursuing a life in front of the camera. “I’m done doing reality and I want to move on and do acting and movies and stuff,” she says. Luckily, we're already seeing the results. Kristin got a part in Fingerprints (2006), a terrifying horror film about a deadly Texas town, and another one in Spring Breakdown (2008), an upbeat comedy about three 30-something friends who invade a popular coed retreat.

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