Lauren Conrad embarrassed by her teen style

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Former "Hills" star Lauren Conrad has confessed she can't stand to see her bad fashion sense during her teenage years on "Laguna Beach." The 26-year-old first came to reality TV in 2004 as the scene-stealer on MTV's hit docuseries featuring high school teens in the ritzy town of Laguna Beach, Calif. And although Conrad is making a name for herself as a fashion designer and style guru, she tells Lucky magazine that her clothing choices as an 18-year-old now make her cringe.

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She confesses, "I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of Laguna Beach because it was pretty bad ... head-to-toe bad. This past summer, MTV replayed every episode, and I would always see it and be like, 'Ahh, noo!' I wore these capri, denim pants a lo,t and they were so bad." Conrad admits that her time on "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" didn't automatically make her a big name in the fashion industry. If anything, her past made it much harder to be taken seriously.

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Conrad says, "The TV show did not help my reputation very much. It was difficult to be taken seriously. But I think the fact that I went to school to study fashion and worked in the industry helped me. I think it's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something, because you're always going to have to work a little bit harder." The California beauty currently has two fashion lines and seven New York Times best-selling books, including guides to her personal style and beauty secrets.