Kristin Cavallari, who is about to take the MTV reality TV series The Hills by storm in just a few short weeks, is featured in the new issue of Nylon magazine. Here is a photo from her pretty cool photospread and some excerpts from the accompanying article:

Back in 2003, when MTV was casting for Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County — the show from which The Hills spun-off — Cavallari, then just a sophomore at Laguna Beach High, already had an innate sense of what producers and audiences craved. Her Locklear-ean potential was impossible to miss. “One of the questions was, ‘Who do you think’s going to be prom queen?’” she recalls of the audition form. “And I said, ‘I don’t know, and I don’t care as long as it’s not Lauren Conrad.’ So it’s like, I know what I’m doing, and obviously they’re not going to put on some boring person who doesn’t make good TV” … Cavallari will be replacing her sworn frenemy since time immemorial (or at least sophomore year), the notoriously bland Conrad. Naturally, the blogs have been all ablaze with Team Lauren versus Team Kristin, each weighing in on the show’s future. But one thing Cavallari’s haters and supporters can agree upon is that her presence on The Hills will inject some much-needed drama into a show on which, as most everyone who watches it acknowledges, nothing much happens. Of the little that does happen (jealous infighting, mostly), do the show’s fans suspect or even care if it’s real? “Maybe some do,” Cavallari speculates. “Maybe some really want to believe that these really are our lives. It’s like any other TV show — obviously these people are playing characters, nobody really cares if it’s their real life” … Cavallari insists that the show isn’t her reality. “It’s a soap opera about 20-year olds living in L.A. with lots of money. If it was a reality show,” she says, her eyes darting self-consciously down to my digital recorder on the table, “they would focus on me being an actress. You know what I mean?”

Um, no … if The Hills was a show focusing on Kristin or any other castmember’s “being an actress” then it would be a comedy, not reality TV. But, really, who cares? The show is deliciously entertaining and totally void of any substance … it’s fun! But, none of this is really news … it’s just refreshing to hear KC talk so candidly about what is really going on on this “reality TV” series. After the jump, check out a few more photos from Kristin‘s photospread in Nylon magazine …

Love her or hate her you cannot deny that she is a very pretty girl. I don’t know that KC will be able to save The Hills but one thing you can be sure of, she will be bringing the drama like only she can. I can’t wait … I just hope the new season lives up to the hype, you know?

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