Lauren Conrad and her mother Kathy Conrad shoot her new MTV reality show on San Vicente in Brentwood, CA on November 11,2010.

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Lauren Conrad is getting camera-ready: She tells UsMagazine.com she begins shooting her new MTV reality show in a week!

“Right now it’s like music samples and picking lights,” she told Us Wednesday at an Operation Smile event in Beverly Hills. “We start in about a week. I’m excited. It’s smaller this time, which is really great and most of the people I’m working with are most of my favorite people.”

The show will be shot more like a documentary (think The September Issue) and focus on getting her new fashion line, Paper Crown, off the ground.

“It’s going to focus on a clothing line I’m doing with two of my best friends, but it’s also going to show all the other things that I do as well as the lifestyle,” she told Us.

Don’t expect any catfights a la The Hills.

“This [show] is the other side,” she told Us. “While we were filming, there was so much of our lives that we weren’t allowed to show, and this is basically the rest.”

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The important issues in life, right? ‘

Lauren Conrad is not only a reality star, fashion designer, and New York Times best-selling author, but a humanitarian as well.

Conrad has teamed up with Ryan Seacrest to selflessly be the spokesperson for a public service announcement to combat the effects of “Fashion F*** Ups,” an issue which affects thousands around the world every hour.

Lauren addresses the familiar feeling we’ve all had when seen with a friend who is fashionably challenged, and reveals it’s okay “to change your friends if it makes you look better.” Because, if you’re not, you’re only “f***ing yourself.”

The video urges against kitten heels, “jorts,” bedazzles, and skinny jeans on men. Conrad speaks out against kitten heels to shed light on their uselessness and to spread the message only Suri Cruise can pull off the heels. Conrad also steps forward against “jorts,” the phenomeon of males thinking it’s okay to wear jean shorts in the style of Daisy Dukes which Conrad admits she’s stunned she even has to address. Lauren also calls out males who sport skinny jeans, warning “make sure when you use that crude pick-up line of what’s in your pants…that you’re not already calling your own bluff.”

Alongside the non-profit PSA, Conrad offers further advice in her style book, Lauren Conrad Style, written by Lauren Conrad, to urge “when it comes to fashion…the more you know…the further you’ll go.”

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Lauren Conrad is all smiles as she proudly does double duty book promotion in NYC, at Barnes &Nobel where the former cast member of “The Hills” promoted “Style” and “LA Candy”.

During yesterday’s book signing, Lauren spoke with MTV about her new reality show, which she promises will be much different than anything she’s done before.

“Well, I never was completely done with reality. It was just reality based on my personal life,” she told MTV News on Tuesday evening in New York City. Conrad held a book signing for her two latest efforts, her final “L.A. Candy” novel, “Sugar and Spice,” and her aptly titled style manual, “Style.” “So this time around I’m involved with producing,” she continued. “I love the style they want to film it in.”

Of course, the biggest change fans will notice is that instead of giving viewers a peek into her personal life, Conrad will document the challenges of starting up a fashion line from scratch. “It’s focusing on my career and all the things that I love to do,” she said. “So I think it’ll be a very different show. So that’ll be nice.”

And going back into production means that Conrad will also get the chance to work with some familiar faces. “I’m excited because I get to work with some of my old crew, which is really cool,” she dished. “I haven’t gotten to see them in a while because they’re all very busy people, but hopefully I’m going to get some familiar faces. I already have a couple of the guys from ‘The Hills.’ ”

When the show was announced late last month, the reality TV darling gushed about returning to the network. “I am so excited to be rejoining the MTV family,” she said. “The new project will follow me as I develop my new contemporary line and also touch on my other businesses.”

Lauren Conrad confirmed this morning on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show that she’ll be returning to MTV in her own reality show.

The 24-year-old wouldn’t give many details. “It’ll be something very different,” the fashion designer said on Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show, adding that the show would follow her “career.”

She told Seacrest she’ll likely begin shooting soon. “If I was going to do a reality show, it’ll probably start in October,” she said.

Lauren Conrad confirmed this morning on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show that she’ll be returning to MTV in her own reality show.

The 24-year-old wouldn’t give many details. “It’ll be something very different,” the fashion designer said on Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show, adding that the show would follow her “career.”

She told Seacrest she’ll likely begin shooting soon. “If I was going to do a reality show, it’ll probably start in October,” she said.

Tired of being in the public eye constantly, Conrad quit The Hills in 2009. But, she said she’s been wanting to do reality again lately.

“I’ve always been open to doing reality again,” she said. “Just under different circumstances. As long as you have a separation, then it works.  You have your personal life and you have work life; when it’s combined, it’s difficult.”

An official MTV announcement will come out next week, she said.

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Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried and Lauren Conrad all help celebrate the 25th anniversary of ELLE Magazine. The magazine profiles 25 women under 25 and there are four different covers which feature Lauren Conrad, Amanda Seyfried, Megan Fox, and Gabourey Sidibe.

I love each of these covers! Amanda Seyfried is adorable!

Megan Fox

On being married: “When I talk about my husband [Brian Austin Green], I feel as if people roll their eyes. It’s like when you’re 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, ‘Do you think I’m stupid?’ They can’t grasp that I’m old enough to be married.”

Lauren Conrad

Best part of being in her twenties: “It’s your time to be selfish; you still have freedom.”
Where she thought she’d be now: “I was never that girl who just wanted babies. I wanted a career before all of that.”

Amanda Seyfried

What are the best and worst things about turning 25? “The best thing is, I’m happy. The worst is that I’m scared; the scariest thing is that I know it can’t be easy—the years to come.”

Gabourey Sidibe

On celebrating her twenty-fifth birthday: “Part of me thought it would be weird if people knew I was a grown-up playing a teenager in Precious. So I had a twenty-first-birthday party. We had drinks and went to a strip club called Shotgun Willie’s.”

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ELLE 25: The Top 25 People, Movies, and Music in 2010