Lauren Conrad almost didn’t return for the third season of “The Hills.” Apparently she was so fed up with her co-stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt that she thought about quitting. Then she remembered she loves that easy money. People reports:

“I actually came dangerously close to not doing season three, because I really didn’t want to do the show with Heidi and Spencer,” the reality TV star tells Seventeen magazine in its October issue. “I’m not who they are. I don’t stage my own publicity. I just kind of live my life and do my job, and I don’t want to be grouped with them.”

Lauren Conrad really does have it rough. I mean, she has to sip lattes and talk on her cell phone. She actually has to lift the latte to her lips and take a sip. And then more lifting, with the cell phone, again to her lips. Then she has to speak words into it. Not even coherent sentences, just random words. Ugh, so freaking hard. When kids working in sweatshops complain, the owners crack them with a whip and say, “Hey, be glad you’re not Lauren Conrad. She has to drink lattes – and talk!” The children can’t believe such a fate and quietly return to work.