Heidi vs. Kristin

If you're anywhere near cool or awesome then you definitely watch the shows The Hills and Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. Laguna was the original show and it centered around Kristin (pictured to the left), who has been spotted with Nick Lachey, Stephen (her boyfriend at the time), and Lauren (pictured below), better known as "LC" and Kristin's arch-nemesis. Lauren, while on Laguna, had a hardcore crush on Stephen who has been her best friend since they were children. They were seniors and Kristin was a junior. Kristin was the apple of Stephen's eye. Kristin absolutely, positively, without a doubt, hated LC and vice versa. This of course placed a strain on Stephen; however, when Stephen and Kristin broke up, Stephen shacked up with LC. Sneaky, dirty, and scandalous. That's the only kind of TV I watch. By the time the second season of Laguna came to a halt, LC had come back from her first year of college in San Fran and decided to go to LA to FIDM and was spending her summer months transitioning in at where she makes her home, Laguna Beach. During the summer she meets Jason, who cheats on her with his ex-girlfriend, of course, and then they break up and she leaves for LA pissed off at him and never wanting to hear from him again.

Of course, the brains at MTV are in full force and they come up with the concept of having LC's new life in LA being taped. They name this show The Hills. I don't live in California but if that's what they want to name it, hey, they can name it that... and I will still watch it every Wednesday night at 9PM with Danielle on our couch. I am infatuated with bullshit reality-TV like this. Anyhow, I digress. LC's move to LA entails several things in addition to the new life that she will now be leading without the drama of Kristin and Stephen: 1) She will be attending fashion school full-time at FIDM; 2) She will be living with her best friend, Heidi (pictured below) who she met in San Francisco while they were at the Art Institute; 3) She has a bad-ass internship at Teen Vogue that she most definitely does not have the merits for, this has raised great speculation on MTV's role in "paying off" Lisa Love, the Editor of Teen Vogue, to hire her; and 4) She reunited with Jason, who has also moved to LA, and they are now in a relationship. LC has a new change of life and obviously has many new challenges and blah blah blah.

This post has nothing at all to do with LC, except that I will be conducting a character analysis of Kristin and Heidi, who have been apart of LC's life at one point or another, and how they share similar and simultaneously, quite dissimilar characteristics and personality traits. It has been brought to my attention on several occasions that Heidi reminds many viewers of Kristin, which can be reasonable and ludacris on many accounts. I have many issues with LC's decision to not go to Paris though, so believe me, you will hear my opinions on that load-of-shit type of behavior. I have no desire to write anything profound as you can tell by the topics of my posts thus far. This is due to the fact that I read quite a bit and I get all the profoundness I desire and need from that activity alone. Further, my life is quite mundane and analyzing human behavior is one of my favorite pasttimes and its rather insightful. My friends have told me they learn quite a bit from my people watching and analytical skills.

Anyways, back to the point. Heidi reminds many Laguna viewers of Kristin not only because of appearances but because of their personalities as well.

Heidi vs. Kristin - Similarities

• They both have very similar appearances: blonde hair, stature, height, weight, body frame, and facial structure.
• They both get extremely worked up over mindless and insignificant drama
• They are both boy crazy
• Both are so self-absorbed that they can't even successfully have too many friends or people in their lives
• They are both spoiled and too accustomed to living the "high life"
• Both get too many boys - Heidi got her job through a guy she met out one night... what does that tell you? Kristin had Stephen, Talan, and I think Jeff (the guy that Jessica had a mini-crush on) that wanted her... including I'm sure many others that we just never saw on television
• Both complain too much and have annoying voices when they complain and are not great at taking constructive criticism
• They both have superiority complexes as apparent in Kristin's demeanor and Heidi's self-over-assured dialogue
• Both have very controversial relationships in which they constantly bicker in a non-cute or healthy manner with their boyfriends and make complete asses out of themselves in public places

Heidi vs. Kristin - Differences

• Heidi only wanted to attend school in order to be a party promoter; Kristin wanted to go to college because it was the next progressive step to take
  
• Heidi knows how to think about others, especially those that matter to her the most (e.g. she went home with Lauren on New Year's even though she had a boyfriend to kiss at midnight); Kristin does not have much of a conscious, her intentions are malicious and she knows that they are and still proceeds to follow through on ill-willed actions (e.g. She made out with a guy that her best friend Jessica was interested in and did not even sincerely apologize)
• Heidi has ambitions - being a party planner; Kristin does not know what to aim for or how to make goals, well other than how to steal men away from other girls
• Heidi does not talk like a 4 year old or even like a valley girl, she has moments where she comes off immature or even stubborn, but Kristin always sounds like a valley girl that's up to no good
• Heidi and her ex-boyfriend, Jordan, were good together and could give constructive advice to Lauren and Jason when they had problems, but Kristin and Stephen could never get to that level. They could never stop fighting over small things, ever or Lauren being in Stephen's life.
• Heidi treats her friends like family while Kristin screws them over like family
  
• Kristin does throw some great parties at her house, but Heidi throws parties at clubs and gets paid to do so
• Kristin dates famous people while Heidi only lets them through the doors at parties

Many more differences exist; however, I do not want to go any further, I think I've made my point. Heidi clearly has a soul and heart while Kristin's are quite questionable to be frank. Despite their physical similarities, there are many character traits that separate the two blonde bombshells of MTV reality-TV. I do not know how much more I could compare and contrast the two girls of rich California backgrounds, but I can say that this show does not do enough justice to Heidi. Who knows if Kristin has a nice streak. Who knows?