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Lauren Conrad may be considered a style-setter now, but it wasn't always this way. The 26-year-old Hills alum tells Lucky that her flip flop-wearing OC beach bum days are long gone: "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, no!' I wore these capri denim pants a lot and they were so bad." [People; Previously]