Kristin Cavallari

Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari was born on January 5, 1987, in Denver, Colorado. After her parents’ divorce, she spent her early years in Illinois before moving to Laguna Beach, California, to live with her father and brother. She graduated from Laguna Beach High School in 2005. Her public career began during her junior year of high school when she joined the cast of the MTV reality television series “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” (2004–2005), which chronicled her relationships and high school life. Following her time on “Laguna Beach,” Cavallari relocated to Los Angeles and briefly attended Loyola Marymount University before pursuing her entertainment career. She appeared on various television shows and films, including a guest role on “Veronica Mars” in 2006 and a supporting role in the horror film “Fingerprints” in the same year. In 2009, she took on a more prominent role in reality television, joining the cast of “The Hills,” a spin-off of “Laguna Beach,” where she became a main cast member and narrator until its conclusion in 2010. She also starred in independent films such as “Wild Cherry” (2009) and “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder: Freshman Year” (2009).

Cavallari’s career expanded beyond acting and reality television into business and authorship. In 2010, she began philanthropic work as an ambassador for OneKid OneWorld, traveling to El Salvador and Kenya. This led to her first fashion collaboration with ShoeDazzle in 2010. She continued to develop fashion lines, including shoe collections for Chinese Laundry (2012) and a jewelry collection with GLAMboutique (2013). A significant turning point in her career was the founding of her own company, Uncommon James, in 2017, which initially focused on jewelry but later expanded to include homeware and beauty products. Her entrepreneurial endeavors were further documented in her E! reality series, “Very Cavallari” (2018–2020), which followed the establishment and growth of her brand. In 2019, she also launched a children’s clothing line, Little James. Cavallari is also an accomplished author, publishing her lifestyle autobiography “Balancing in Heels” in 2016, followed by two New York Times bestselling cookbooks, “True Roots” (2018) and “True Comfort” (2020), and a third cookbook, “Truly Simple” (2023). In 2022, she launched the podcast “Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen” and subsequently, “Let’s Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari” in 2023, for which she signed a multi-year, eight-figure deal to continue in October 2025.