After appearing on The Hills in 2006, reality TV fans quickly fell in love with Whitney Port’s bright personality and trendy clothes. In fact, they loved her so much that in 2008, she was given her own show, The City, which ran from 2008 until 2010. Now, 15 years later, Port is ready to open up about her time on the show, including what really happened between her and her husband. Read on for more.
Whitney Port reflects on her time on ‘The Hills’
The Hills was an MTV reality show that ran from 2006 until 2008. It followed Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, Kristin Cavallari, Lo Bosworth, Audrina Patridge, Stephanie Pratt and Port as they tried to make it both personally and professionally in Los Angeles.
“That show was so pivotal for me and for the most part, I have nothing but really fun memories and thoughts about it,” Port, age 40, told First for Women. “I’m so grateful that I was given the opportunity to show my fashion career on TV, and then be able to launch a clothing line. It’s all because of The Hills.”
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“There’s certain weird feelings about getting on TV at 20, and growing up on it, but for the most part, it is one of the better things career-wise that has ever happened to me.”
The mother of one also revealed that it was actually her interest in fashion that landed her a role on the show in the first place.
“I was interviewing for a job at Teen Vogue, and all of a sudden MTV was calling me, saying they were filming a show at Teen Vogue,” Port said.
Whitney Port opens up about her husband
Port and her husband, Tim Rosenman, have been married since 2015, and they actually met on the set of her 2008 reality show The City.
“I had met him in New York previously through a friend, but through this same friend, he got a job on The City as a producer. We got really close while he was on the show, but we didn’t get together until after the show was over,” she explained. “I think it was one of the things that made me feel super close to him. There were not a lot of people who knew what it felt like to be in that reality TV world all that time. And so for me, I felt so safe. He really knew what my life was and knew what came with it, and wasn’t bothered by it. And so that was always a huge anchor in our relationship.”
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Now, 15 years later, Port and Rosenman love to look back at their time on the show. They even started a YouTube Channel dedicated to rewatching The Hills, The City and other reality TV shows.
“It was such a blast to re-watch all that because I really hadn’t watched it in so long, and it made me even more grateful for my experiences,” Port exclaimed. “I was able to do and see people, I was able to meet people and it was just a really cool time. I think sometimes when you’re in it, you can’t see it as much, but now I have perspective on it.”
The mother of one shares her parenting secrets
After a long battle with infertility, surrogacy, IVF and two miscarriages, Port and Rosenman finally welcomed son Sonny Sanford Rosenman, 7, into the world in July 2017.
“Life as a mom is so great and it just keeps getting better and better,” the reality TV star exclaimed. “Honestly, for me, the baby phase was hard. I feel like it didn’t come as naturally to me to be a mom to a baby, and now that I have a little kid, it is just so special to be able to have real conversations with him, learn who he is as a person and help shape him into the best that he can be. It’s really such a pleasure having a seven-year-old who’s just so fun and curious and still wants to cuddle and love on me, and so I’m trying to soak up every second.”
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One way Port is doing this is by feeling safe about what her son will eventually look at online when he’s older, which she says Meta’s new Instagram Teen Accounts are helping with.
“For me as a parent, living in an age with so much new technology every day, it makes me feel so safe and so heard, knowing that Meta is taking so many different things into account,” Port said. “As a parent, you have to make so many decisions. With technology, it’s just another thing I feel I need to be versed in and it’s just so nice that Meta actually cares about that. They’re taking into account the safety of our children. It makes me want to allow Sonny to use the platform when he’s of age and not be so scared of it.”
Hill lives in Los Angeles and, like the rest of us, is ready for summer so she can get into “that head space of slowing down and savoring all the moments life has.”