Being the nicest person on reality TV worked out well for Whitney Port.
May 31 marks the 10-year anniversary of the premiere of "The Hills" on MTV, and in the six years since the show (and her spinoff, "The City") ended, Port has done well for herself. The 31-year-old recently launched the Spring 2016 collection of her fashion line Whitney Eve and is enjoying her first year as a newlywed after marrying Tim Rosenmann in November 2015.
The Huffington Post caught up with Port, who teamed up with goodnessknows for Los Angeles' Bike to Work Day and chatted about the 10-year anniversary of "The Hills."
Once and for all, how scripted was the show?
I've gotten this question so much, but I was never given a script. There were things that we would maybe have to exaggerate or dramatize for the sake of being on the TV show, but it's the same as all these other shows that you watch now. All the drama was real. It was just that we were continuing to have to, like, relive it over and over for the sake of making a TV show.
Lauren Conrad recently claimed that producers locked her in the basement of a church so she couldn't leave Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's wedding. What was the craziest thing that happened to you while filming?
That's funny ... [Producers] were always setting me up with different guys and making dating really easy for me. That's not something, really, normal girls in New York get to experience. But I don't really have an experience like Lauren's where they were like forcing me into staying somewhere. It was never like that for me.
Do you have a favorite memory from filming?
I think my favorite memory from filming was probably when I walked in that DKNY fashion show when I was working at Teen Vogue. It was just a really cool experience. I was obviously not prepared by any means, nor did I ever want to be a model, but it was just a very cool, surreal out-of-body experience. And the fact that they trusted me to do that was really cool.
Do you have any advice to anyone trying to make a career in reality TV today?
I think the biggest advice is just to stay true to yourself, be who you really are and try not to react based on what other people are wanting you to do or telling you to do. The thing about the show is that you do have producers that want it to be a dramatic and an entertaining show, but at the end of the day, you have to live with yourself. And you have to live with the actions that you did. So I would just really think good and hard about all those decisions that you make.
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