What is Heidi Montag's net worth and salary?
Heidi Montag is an American reality television personality who has a net worth of $1 million. That is a combined net worth with her husband, Spencer Pratt. If you scroll down to the next section in this article we give a detailed timeline and breakdown of how we have previously and currently landed on an estimate for Heidi and Spencer Pratt's net worth.
Heidi Montag is an American reality television personality, singer, and actress who rose to fame in the mid-2000s. She gained widespread recognition for her role in the MTV reality series "The Hills" (2006-2010), which chronicled the personal and professional lives of several young women in Los Angeles. During her time on the show, Montag's friendship with co-star Lauren Conrad and her romantic relationship with Spencer Pratt became central storylines.
In addition to her reality TV career, Montag pursued a brief music career, releasing her debut studio album "Superficial" in 2010. The album received mixed reviews and modest commercial success. She also appeared in a few films, including "Just Go with It" (2011) and "Assassin 33 A.D." (2020). Throughout her career, Montag has been the subject of media scrutiny, particularly for her extensive plastic surgery procedures, which she openly discussed. She and her husband, Spencer Pratt, have continued to appear in various reality television shows, such as "I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!" and "Celebrity Big Brother."
Heidi and Spencer Net Worth Timeline
Accurately pinpointing Heidi and Spencer's net worth has been difficult over the years. The TLDR bullet point timeline is:
- 2010: Peak of net worth, perhaps as high as $10 million
- 2013: In an E! interview, they claim to have blown their fortune through insane spending habits
- 2016: They are living rent-free at his parents' beach house, no longer able to go out to fancy dinners, trying to make ends meet with reality appearances
- 2017: They buy a $2.5 million home in the Pacific Palisades
- 2025: Their home is destroyed, and they apparently did not have insurance to rebuild
Longer explanation:
In December 2013, Heidi and Spencer appeared in a special titled "After Shock: Heidi & Spencer," which aired on the E! network. In the one-hour special, Heidi and Spencer revealed a number of interesting details about their finances up to that point. In the interview, For example:
"We have kind of come to the point where it's a reality check and it's like, whoa, we had a lot of money and whoa, we spent a lot of money," Heidi said. Spencer added, "We should have like $10 million plus in the bank. And we don't."
Elaboratiung, "We thought we were Jay-Z and Beyonce, or the new Beckhams."
Unbelievably, Heidi further claimed that they "heard the planet was going to end in 2012… [so we thought] we have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits."
Heidi also revealed she they spent an estimated $1 million on handbags and designer clothes. Montag was especially obsessed with Birkin handbags that can cost as much as $40,000. She also spent an estimated $100,000 per month on her hair and makeup. Heidi spent $200,000 in a single day when she underwent a marathon of 10 plastic surgery procedures at once. Other splurges included a full staff (bodyguards costing up to $15,000 for a night out), expensive dinners with $3,000 bottles of wine, and Spencer's crystal collection, which he estimated was worth up to $1 million. At their peak, they were spending $10,000 per month on restaurants. After "The Hills" was canceled the couple lived at the Ritz Carlton in Costa Rica for six months, ordering room service for themselves and their four dogs.
Meanwhile, Spencer spent an estimated $1 million on clothes because, in his words, "I wanted to be taken seriously as an A-lister. I wanted to be in fashion magazines alongside Brad Pitt."
Furthermore, Spencer developed a particular passion for crystals. He reportedly spent around $500,000 on various crystals that would supposedly give off positive energy. One crystal in particular, which came from a volcano in Peru, cost over $100,000 alone and required a crane to be installed at their $35,000/month Malibu rental.
Finally, they spent $2.5 million on Heidi's musical career, which produced one album that sold a total of 6,000 units.
In 2016, Heidi and Spencer gave an interview with People.com. In this interview, the couple revealed that at their peak they were making $2 million per year, thanks largely to six-figure paychecks for their rolls on "The Hills," plus staged paparazzi photos and various paid appearances. As Heidi explains:
"We were keeping up with the Joneses, but we were going against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. We should have stayed in our reality TV lane… I was kind of playing house. I felt like I was someone I wasn't. We had business managers who told us to stop spending but we acted like we knew what we were doing."
At the time of this People interview, the couple was living rent-free at Spencer's parents' vacation home on the beach in Carpenteria, California. Spencer's parents bought the 3-bedroom home in 1992 for $825,000, and today it's worth around $5 million.
Pacific Palisades Home
In February 2017, Heidi and Spencer paid $2.52 million for a home in LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood. As you likely have heard, this home was destroyed in the January 2025 Palisades Fire. Before the fire, the home was worth close to $4 million. In various interviews after the fire, Heidi and Spencer have claimed that they did not have fire insurance as they were dropped from their former insurance company four months prior to the disaster.
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The Hills
Heidi Montag gained fame by becoming a cast member of the MTV reality series The Hills. Montag met Lauren Conrad when they both attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. The pair became instant friends. Montag left the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising when she was hired at Bolthouse Productions. During this stage of her life, both Conrad and Montag appeared on The Hills, which aired from May 2006 through July 2010, and chronicled the lives of Montag, Conrad and Kristin Cavallari.
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Spencer Pratt Relationship
Montag began dating fellow cast member Spencer Pratt during the series and the relationship began to cause problems with her friendships. Montag and Pratt married in 2009. Montag starred in the sixth and final season of The Hills, but Montag and Pratt were removed from the series after Pratt made threats to the series producer. Heidi and Spencer have two children together, sons Ryker and Gunner.
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Plastic Surgery/Singing Career
Montag released a debut album, Superficial, on January 11, 2010. The digital album sold only 1,000 copies in the first week. Montag's song "More Is More" from Superficial is the only song that made the music charts. Montag gained attention in January 2010 by revealing to People magazine she had ten plastic surgery procedures performed in one day. Among the procedures were brow-lifts, ear-pinnings, a chin reduction, as well as a second rhinoplasty and second breast augmentation. She commented that she almost died from too much Demerol, reducing her breath rate to five breaths per minute.
Reality TV
In 2011, Montag was featured on the television series Famous Food, where she and several celebrities competed for a restaurant partnership. She also appeared on shows like Celebrity Big Brother and I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here with her husband, Spencer, and the drama continued to follow them while filming both of those shows. The couple also appeared on the hit reality series, Marriage Bootcamp: Reality Stars, and Celebrity Wife Swap where they trade lives with Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard and her husband, photographer Sacha Brown. In 2019 Heidi and Spencer returned to MTV as part of the rebooted series The Hills: New Beginnings.
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