The Hills star Heidi Montag isn’t content to get US Weekly covers for non-stories about how she’s fighting with her ex best friend or thinks her boyfriend betrayed her, but isn’t willing to reveal any actual details. Now she’s planning to fake a pregnancy in order to get more attention over the summer. Star has the story, and while they do make up a lot of their content I would bet this one is true:

A source tells Star that [Heidi and Spencer] want to hog more of the spotlight by faking a pregnancy!

“This summer, Heidi plans to wear loose clothes and even strap on some padding around her waist to make it appear as if she’s about three months along,” says the insider. “The plan is to get the baby rumor mill going so she can get phoographed more. She and Spencer won’t confirm or deny the pregnancy so they can keep everyone guessing.”

According to the source, Heidi, 21, and Spencer, 24, have plotted each step carefully. First the aspiring singer will stop drinking. Then she’ll visit chic children’s boutiques… to pick out baby stuff. But by the end of the summer, Heidi will be photographed bumpless and sporting a skimping bikini while strolling along the beach.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, May 26, 2008]

Just about everything about Heidi is fake, so a fake baby would be just her style. I guess there isn’t much more she can pull to get attention. While it’s not original, a faux pregnancy is better for extended press coverage than a see through top or a crotch flash. Heidi may not have a lot of class, but at least she hasn’t shown us her goods yet.

In related Hills news, Heidi’s co-star and friend Audrina Patridge is said to have held two separate birthday parties for her 23rd birthday in order to accommodate both Lauren and Heidi, who can’t stand to be around each other. According to the latest edition of In Touch, Lauren held a barbeque party on May 9 at their home for Audrina, and then Audrina had a casino-themed party at her parents house the next night. She invited Heidi, but not Lauren because she “didn’t want there to be any awkward run-ins.” Lauren was hanging out with other friends that night and it sounds like Audrina knew this and did not deliberately snub her.

TMZ reports that Heidi and Spencer and two of their friends were out at a restaurant this weekend while filming The Hills and that Spencer tipped a whole $16 on a $783 tab. 15% would have been over $100 so that is indeed cheap. A producer is said to have paid $60 additional in tip after the waiter asked why the tip was so low.

Let’s hope these two aren’t going to have a actual child anytime soon.

Heidi and Spencer are shown at a Kentucky Derby party on 5/2/08, thanks to WENN.

Audrina Patridge, 22, the lesser-known female from the trio on MTV faux reality show “The Hills,” has released more topless photos of herself. While she hasn’t commented on the latest photos, they’re new posed photos of her topless, so she doesn’t really need to explain that she wanted more publicity. They’re more like something you would see in FHM than Playboy, and maybe she thought her last set of topless photos taken three years ago were just a little bit porny and she wanted to show us that she’s capable of more subtle sexuality. She called the release of her first photos a “lesson learned,” and explained her involvement by saying she was “very trusting of others and… didn’t know to protect myself.” She probably thought that she didn’t know how to pose well either.

Audrina continues to deny that she leaked the first photos herself, saying “They were intended for my personal use and portfolio only. I never imagined they would come out.” She also suggested that the photographer betrayed her.

Audrina’s second set of photos, which are about as provocative as you would see in a non-nude men’s magazine, were released through the same photo agency that somehow had dibs on her earlier pictures. Star Magazine reported this week that those pictures were taken by a female photographer friend of Audrina’s at the home of an older rich friend of the photographer’s. Audrina sent them to Playboy magazine before she became semi-famous and never heard back so it’s not like she can claim innocence in the matter even if she didn’t intend for them to be released at this point.

On Friday night Audrina introduced the burlesque troop “The Pussycat Dolls” in Las Vegas. She claimed ahead of time that “I’m not going to be in the Pussycat Dolls. I don’t know where that came from. I’m going to introduce them one night and that’s it.” SFGate reported that she meant that she wasn’t going to wear a sexy outfit and perform with them on stage like Paris Hilton did, but that wasn’t exactly true. She was seen wearing two different barely-there outfits when she introduced them.Fox News notes that there wouldn’t have been as much interest in Audrina’s appearance with The Dolls if those nude photos hadn’t come out ahead of time. Maybe she should have spaced out the release of her latest pics until at least the end of the week. It’s possible though that given how quick the news cycle is she just wanted to take advantage of her fleeing fame while she can.

Audrina is shown “introducing” The Pussycat Dolls. The new topless photos of her are at TMZ.

Of all “The Hills” girls, 22 year-old Audrina Partridge gets the least publicity and seems the most normal. Now she’s set for a little injection of mid-week fame with topless photos from her pre-Hills days.

Patridge’s rep gave TMZ her carefully worded all too perfect statement:

“I took these photos years ago when I was just out of high school and beginning to model. I was young and very trusting of others and I didn’t know to protect myself. It is a lesson learned, for myself, and hopefully for the young girls who look up to me.”

[From TMZ]

According to the photo description quoted on WWTDD, she took the pictures at 19 to send to Playboy, but they turned her down.

Earlier this month Patridge was rumored to be joining a performance of the burlesque troupe Pussycat Dolls, but said that she’s just going to introduce them and won’t grind it on stage like Paris Hilton did.

You know she leaked these photos herself, but it wasn’t a bad idea. She comes off looking like the sexy victim, and gets a lot of press in the bargain.

You can see the photos at WWTDD.

Audrina is shown at the DCMA Collective story opening on 3/14/08, thanks to PRPhotos.