Heidi Montag Learning Martial Arts For Protection

Heidi Montag’s life may have seemed charmed during her days on The Hills, but the reality TV star revealed a darker side of fame in a recent exclusive interview with Radar Online. Montag says that the attention can often be more overwhelming than flattering and she recently schooled herself in martial arts to learn ways to protect herself.

“I can’t afford security, so I practice self defense and chain punching,” Heidi explained to Radar Online.

Though she used to have a posse of bodyguards on hand, she and husband Spencer Pratt have fallen on learner times. “I have spent millions in security in the last 4 years because I had to take care of the cost all on my own. It’s crazy and it’s hard, but life is not always fair.

“I have had to change my life. I can’t afford to go out to the clubs anymore because the sort of protection I need can cost anywhere from 5 to 10 thousand dollars a night...when you travel it’s even worst, because you need to cover the guards travel, food lodging, etc., and pay them. That is actually where all my money went because safety is number one.”

Besides cutting costs, Heidi has enjoyed the burst of independence from her practice.

“It gives me a confidence I didn’t have before,” she added. “I am doing this self defense because it gives me inner strength, and I feel safe in my home. It’s a deterrent, but I know I can’t do what the body guards do.”

Heidi has been training to become a black belt in Wing Tsun with her trainer (SIFU) Michael Casey who explained that “the system is geared straight towards self defense, so there are no rules. Punches, kicks, knees, elbows, ground fighting, strikes to vital areas. Anything goes as the goal of the system is to stop an opponent.”

“It is scary to be out there without protection, people do follow me and you can never be to careful,” Heidi added.

“It’s overwhelming, and it’s most difficult when I’m in large groups of people.”

The beautiful reality star said that while it takes years to perfect the ancient Chinese martial arts form, she has been practicing for about 6 months and realizes she has a long way to go.

“I’m not ready to go out alone yet...I’m only 5ft 2inches tall and have a small frame so I understand I can’t completely do it alone. Which is why I don’t go out as much anymore.

“Half the reason I am laying low and staying to myself is because I don’t have that security like I used too, and you never can predict what will happen.”

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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Say "I Do" Again

There may have been a Mexican elopement and a lavish Hollywood ceremony in front of "The Hills" cameras, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have finally said "I do" for their first "real" wedding and ETonline Senior Editor Nicole Dabeau was exclusively there for their romantic nuptials!

Reality TV's most polarizing couple renewed their vows just before sunset late Sunday afternoon at a beachfront house in Southern, CA.

"[This time] it's just me and my bride on a little secret beach with nobody else and it's just about her," Spencer says. "Versus last time it was about everything else, it was about drama, it was about ratings."

Heidi adds, "It was about everyone but us, so this is really our first wedding about Spencer and I and our love. Now I feel like I can finally just be Heidi and just be in a marriage and just be a person. I’m just really enjoying every day."

The couple, who has gone public about being broke, had their dream wedding donated to them. Everything from Heidi's Jenny Yoo gown, which she picked out with the help of wedding stylist Anya Sarre, to Spencer's Rik Ducar tuxedo, to their four-tier, multi-flavored cake decorated with white chocolate seashells from Hansen's Cakes, and rings from Alan Friedman. They received a 50% discount on their flowers from Sky Flowers.

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Speidi: What I Really Wanna Do Is Direct ... Porn

Since the Heidi Montag/Spencer Pratt sex tape is never going to see the light of day, a leading porn company is going after the next best thing ... a porn directed by Speidi themselves.

TMZ has obtained a letter sent by Vivid honcho Steven Hirsch, offering the couple the chance to get behind the lens. The idea, it appears, is to have the gruesome twosome helm skin flicks that will draw directly from the couple's own fantasies.

We're told both sides will get together in the near future and discuss the deal, and Spencer is definitely interested ... if the numbers are right.

That's a phrase that applies to almost anything Spencer is offered.

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt Plan To Renew Their Vows

Happily back together, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt feel that their rekindled marriage needs to set off on the right foot.

Trying to put their fake precious moments in the past, the former "Hills" stars have announced plans to renew their wedding vows.

Talking about the decision, Spencer told ET of he and Heidi's previous televised nuptials: "It was a movie, it was a script and it didn't feel right. No one in that building wanted us to get married. It was a nightmare."

Agreeing and expanding on her man's comments, Miss Montag chimed in to say: "We had just gone through so much crazy stuff personally and through our jobs and everything, so for me this feels like our first real marriage. Like our first restart. We deserve a second chance at our marriage and really having this moment and not being robbed of this."

Details regarding the vow renewals will be revealed on Entertainment Tonight this coming Monday, November 25th.

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Spencer Pratt: I Wanted Heidi To Divorce Me

Spencer Pratt opens up in a surprisingly candid interview about how he and Heidi are broke and practically homeless after they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to "buy fame", how he sees no future for himself, and how he urged Heidi to divorce him to save his career.

Spencer tells ET:

"We felt the fleetingness of 15 minutes of fame so we were trying to buy, like, … Let's buy fame. Like if we could eat at this restaurant all the time, maybe we'll get seen with Mel Gibson or these bigger stars. So you know, we knew our positions, so we were having basically to buy into a tax bracket we didn't belong into."

"I know it's the dumbest thing ever spending money on things. But it's like, if we didn't, we wouldn't have got this post, or we wouldn't have got this picture in the magazine, and then we wouldn't be famous at all, and that's the only thing we had going for us at the time."

"I would say we were spending more than $100,000 [each month] on clothes for sure. And we would only wear them once."

"For me to think I was going to be famous and continue at that level of income on a steady basis, was … naive, egotistical, and just foolish. I can't have a long-range plan because I'm so hated I don't see anywhere I could go."

"I'm not afraid, I know it's a reality if we didn't have my dad letting us live in his guesthouse, Heidi and I would have no place to live so we would be homeless and we couldn't afford [to live] anywhere."

"As much as I love her, I was like, 'You need to divorce me to save any chance of a career, a business for yourself.' It's not fair for this sweet, innocent Heidi Montag to be part of Speidi. So really I was trying to divorce Speidi … ’cause you know I know I have no future career on camera, on TV, but Heidi, still to this day, I think could be the biggest actress, TV star, movie star, singer — she was born for it."

"I became this hated to buy things that I don't even have anymore. So I have nothing to show for it. Thank everything that Heidi has stayed with me through all of this because I wake up and say, 'At least I have Heidi. [That's] the greatest thing out of all of this.'"

Wow, he said a mouthful. Do you think this is the "real" Spencer or has he just decided to work this new more sympathetic angle to get some of his fame back?

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Heidi & Spencer: $100,000 To Leave The US

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are considering taking a high-paying gig that could save their disastrous finances -- but there's a catch ... they would have to leave the country for a while.

With Speidi recently admitting that they're practically dead broke -- a betting website called YouWager.com has offered the couple real life jobs -- with a real big salary -- if they would relocate to Costa Rica.

Here's the deal -- Heidi and Spencer would get a cool $100k to "manage the odds and lines surrounding the entertainment sector ‐- ranging from celebrity news and pop culture to music and movies."

Sources close to Spencer tell TMZ, he's considering the gig -- but in light of the recent political turmoil between CR and Nicaragua ... he's "looking into how he can legally own a firearm over there so that he can protect himself."

Fingers crossed.

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt Visit The Hustler Club

If you were looking for backup dancers for your next music video - where would you look?

If you're Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, you go to a strip club in Sin City (of course!), and Radar Online has the pics.

Yes, our favorite reality TV trainwrecks visited the Hustler Club in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but it was strictly 'business'.

The recently reconciled (assuming they even did break-up) couple said they were there to scout a location for Heidi's next music video and to search for backup dancers.

The surgically-enhanced Heidi posed with some of the scantily clad ladies, and they even showed her showed her some of their moves. (As if Heidi's never been on a pole before!)

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt: We Are Bankrupt 'Idiots'

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are apparently dead broke and living at Spencer's parents house.

In the new issue of Life & Style magazine, the worlds most annoying couple admits they blew through $10 million dollars.

After spending $35,000 per month on rent for their Malibu pad, $3 million on Heidi’s "music career," renting studios and paying producers, spending hundreds of thousands on Heidi’s surgeries and aftercare, six cars, healing crystals and private jets the fame hungry couple now owe $2 million in taxes, are considering filing for bankruptcy and are homeless.

“We were immature, worrying too much about the famous part instead of the actual business part,” Spencer tells Life & Style. “In hindsight, we shouldn’t have spent any of our money. We should have been low-key and saved.” Spencer continues, ““We spoke with a bankruptcy attorney and I’ve looked into unemployment checks.”

He added, “We thought The Hills was going to be like 90210 and we’d have another five to 10 years,” Spencer says. “The ratings were consistent. But we never saw Jersey Shore coming. Before, TV audiences were fine with seeing us all argue, but now they want you to punch one another in the face and hook up with three different people. Our cast was a bit boring and snoozeworthy in comparison. No wonder we got canceled.”

Spencer claims they're now living at his parent’s house in their guesthouse—a studio apartment. “My parents are my lifeline.” And for once, his statements aren’t an exaggeration. “Spencer’s parents go to the grocery store for us once a week and that’s all we get.”

Sounds hard to believe that someone can blow through $10 mil, but Heidi's so called music career was definitely a bad move. Spending half a million on crystals wasn't a bright idea, and Heidi's shoe and handbag collection would have sent anyone into bankruptcy.

Sadly no one even cares about these two anymore. After all the surgeries, fake breakup and non stop publicity, we're just over Speidi. And in case you're wondering, they didn't even get the cover for their sad story, they just got a small picture on the side.

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Heidi: I've Had "Ups and Downs" With My Body

Reunited spouses Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt packed on the PDA in Las Vegas on Saturday, where Montag, 24, hosted Pure nightclub's Halloween Haunt. Pratt, 26, dressed as a Close-Encounters-style alien; Montag skipped a costume, but showed off her surgically-enhanced curves in a gold mini-dress.

"I'm Heidi Montag for Halloween," she told reporters on the red carpet. "I designed my own dress."

How does Montag feel about her body (she famously had 10 procedures done in one day) these days? "Um, ups and downs!" she said. "I'm good. I'm just trying to focus on other things, not focus so much on my body."

A lot has happened since then. The Hills, the MTV reality show that made them stars, aired its final episode. And over the summer, the pair (who married in April 2009) separated, filed for divorce and then reunited.

Montag gushed on the red carpet that, this time around, she's "enjoying our relationship. I had so much going on [before, I didn't have a chance to enjoy being a newlywed."

One thing that's definitely real: Montag's sad isolation from most of her friends and family. Her mom Darlene Egelhoff hasn't seen her daughter in nine months, and is now working as a maid in Crested Butte, Colo. to make ends meet.

Egelhoff -- who loudly objected to Heidi's surgery and her husband Pratt -- admitted to Inside Edition that it's awkward when folks now recognize her from The Hills.

"That's very humbling for me and I very much appreciate that experience because I don’t ever want to get full of myself and think I’m too good to do anything."

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt's Pure Halloween Party

Spending the holiday in Sin City, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were side-by-side at Pure nightclub inside Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday night (October 30).

The attention-loving pair shared smooches with Spencer also making time to play around with a stuffed doll while hosting a Halloween bash at the popular nightspot.

During their time in Vegas, Heidi chatted with Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal about being back together with Pratt.

She said, "Fortunately, we are together. So it's been a long summer, and we are together, and I'm so excited to be in Vegas together and to have our friends there."

Continuing on, Heidi gushed, "I'm definitely feeling the best I've ever felt."

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt's Pumpkin Beach Romp

Getting into the holiday spirit, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were spotted having a pumpkin of a good time while out near their Los Angeles home on Thursday afternoon (October 28).

Ever the outdoorsman, Spencer carved a face into his pumpkin with an army knife and put it over his head while Heidi made a half-hearted attempt to hide her chest with two smaller pumpkins. 

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Eliminated Audrina Patridge Visits Jimmy Kimmel

Audrina Patridge was voted off Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday's results show, leaving ABC late night ace Jimmy Kimmel to pick up the pieces, as he does every week with the show's most recent castoff.

Kimmel continually said he was surprised at how early Patridge, a beautiful and skilled dancer, was eliminated.

Patridge told Kimmel, "I'm still in shock."

"There's no way you should have been voted off tonight," Kimmel said. "Did Heidi and Spencer have anything to do with this? I wouldn't put it past them, I really wouldn't.

"What percent is Tony's fault?" Kimmel asked Patridge. "Tony, you've been on ten seasons, you've never won -- you're bad luck, that's all there is to it."

Audrina said of the moment she was eliminated: "We had no idea we were going home tonight ... and then I heard Tony said, 'It's us.'"

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Heidi Montag Not Having Breast Reduction

Heidi Montag has decided not to have a breast reduction as she fears her life could be at risk if she has another cosmetic procedure.

The Hills star, who earlier this month reconciled with hubby Spencer Pratt, will not be having her boob implants removed, despite complaining that she 'regrets having surgery.'

Heidi told People magazine: "I will never have surgery again. (It) wasn't worth it. I just don't want to put my body under the knife again."

The 24-year old added that she would rather put up with her huge G-cup surgically enhanced chest then having them reduced, telling to the publication: "I would rather have a little bit too big of breasts than risk my life again."

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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Riding Bikes

Heading out for some exercise, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were spotted taking a bike ride near their home on Sunday (October 17).

And of course the former “Hills” stars made sure they were ready for plenty of paparazzi action, as they both donned stylish attire as they pedaled down the street looking more normal than ever following their crazy Costa Rican summer.

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Audrina Patridge Talks DWTS, BF Corey Bohan

Audrina Patridge seems to have gotten over The Hills with the help of now being a contestant on Dancing With the Stars. Right now Audrina is focused on the competition and seems to have lost touch with what’s going on in the lives of her former pals from The Hills.

Audrina chatted with reporters at the Make Up Forever Event in NYC at Sephora in NYC’s Soho neighborhood on Thursday about how Dancing With the Stars is going for her!

Who does she think are the biggest competitors for her and partner Tony Dovolani?

“Everybody has such potential,” Audrina explained to reporters. “Everyone’s really good and unique in their own way. Brandy definitely is competition. She’s very driven, very competitive. She wants it so bad. Jennifer Grey is really good, as well.”

But Audrina wants to win!

“I’m definitely, that’s what I’m aiming for. I definitely want to win,” she said. “I’m very driven and I want to push myself every week and become a dancer!”

And she thinks she has something the other contestants don’t!

“I’m very driven. I do not give up,” Audrina told OK!. “I will push myself until I perfect the move and I’m all about having fun. I don’t take anything too serious because at the end of the day, it’s fun. You have to have fun with it.”

Audrina had some drama in her life when her boyfriend Corey Bohan didn’t understand her intense schedule. But now, things are better and they’re working it out!

“I am very busy right now and I told Corey before I started the show because we were together, inseparable, 24/7 and now I don’t get to see him.” But, I am in LA,” Audrina told OK!. “After rehearsal, he’ll drive up and we’ll go to the movies or go to dinner and hang out so we make it work.”

With all the success Audrina has been having lately have any of her Hills co-stars called her to wish her good luck on DWTS?

“Everyone’s been super busy so I haven’t heard from anyone,” she explained.

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Heidi & Spencer's Divorce Paper Beach Burning

Newly reconciled Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt spent yesterday evening roasting marshmallows -- over an open fire of their burning divorce papers (click here to watch the video).

As we previously reported, Heidi called off her divorce from Spencer -- and as a symbol of their (unfortunately) undying love, Speidi fed each other s'mores that they'd cooked over the inferno of legal docs.

Heidi tells TMZ she was waiting for Spencer to make her his top priority: "All I ever wanted was to know that Spencer loved me more than he loved all this other nonsense."

For his part, Spencer tells us, "Through everything it's been Heidi's love that kept me grounded. Realizing my behavior was pushing her away was a terrifying wake-up call. I've still got a long way to go to repair the trust, but I hope with continued self improvement, our relationship will be stronger than ever."

Still ... something about this leaves a bad taste in our mouths.

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Heidi Montag Pulls the Plug on Divorce

TMZ has learned ... Heidi Montag has officially called off her divorce from Spencer Pratt.

The two had been seen out in public together recently -- but yesterday, Montag made the reconciliation official, filing a motion for dismissal at L.A. County Superior Court.

As we previously reported, Montag filed for divorce back in July -- citing irreconcilable differences.

But now, after the two reunited in Costa Rica to deal with a sex tape scandal -- it seems Heidi is once again on board with the whole "'til death do us part" thing.

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Heidi & Spencer Reportedly Living With Parents

Cash-strapped reality TV (former) stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are living in one of his mother's beach homes because they have serious money problems, Radar Online has exclusively learned.

Radar Online revealed how the couple made a mess of their $5 million Malibu rental home after they planted trees without permission and allowed their dogs to pee on the carpets, infuriating the property's owner.

But according to a source close to the couple, the real reason that they left the house was because they could no longer afford the $20,000-a-month rent.

"The truth is that they are cash-strapped right now and their only real form of income these days is from set-up paparazzi photographs," the insider said.

"But the U.S. magazines are not really that interested in them anymore and they are becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.

"A lot of the editors know that the recent split story was a complete sham and they realize that there readers can see through it all now too.

"Spencer thought the shaving off his beard stunt would make a lot of money but he kind of blew it by releasing footage of him shearing it on YouTube.

"Heidi believes that they should be getting paid a lot more money and she has become really demanding now too," the source said.

"The reality is that they earned a lot of money but did not invest it wisely, spent way too much, and now they are in trouble."

Spencer in particular has real problems managing his cash and has spent a fortune on expensive cars like a Porsche Cayenne SUV, a 1968 Camaro and a customized pick-up truck.

He recently admitted to spending $500,000 on energy crystals saying, "I am so addicted to crystals, it's like a sickness."

Spencer confessed, "I've spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left. There's a whole science to this. I'm not crazy."

When Radar Online contacted Spencer Pratt about his and Heidi's financial plight he made light of the situation.

"Broke? I've been wisely investing in a substantial and diverse portfolio of film projects like Tower 69: Beach Patrol and buried pirate treasure. True, I might've lost my pirate map, but my broker's working on that. If you find it make sure you send it back to me. It's got a curse on it!"

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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt: Beach Lovin'

Showing off his freshly shaven face, Spencer Pratt joined wife Heidi Montag on beach romps for the paparazzi over the past few days in Malibu, California.

On Tuesday afternoon (September 21), the attention-starved duo appeared to be relaxed and in love as they sported colorful garb while smooching for the cameras.

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Heidi Montag Walking Her Dogs

Heidi Montag was spotted chatting on her cell phone while walking her dogs last week in Costa Rica. She is currently back home in Malibu with her husband, Spencer Pratt.