Broke Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt Lament Reality TV Regrets

Chris Weeks/WireImage(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) -- Not long ago, Heidi Montag flaunted her plastic surgery-enhanced figure, confident that her new body would take her to heights of fame as yet unrealized by reality TV stars.

So much for that.

The former cast member of MTV's "The Hills," 24, is now broke and living with her equally spotlight-hungry husband, Spencer Pratt, in his parents' Santa Barbara, Calif. home. In an interview with the Daily Beast published this week, the couple lamented their ploy to turn reality TV stardom into a legitimate career.

"This isn't a business," Pratt told the Daily Beast. "That was the big thing I didn't get: Reality TV is not a career. Anyone who says, 'Oh, you can have a career in reality' -- that is a lie."

They also admitted that despite multiple tabloid reports about their break-ups and make-ups, they never actually ended their relationship.

"Not for one minute," Pratt said. Montag added, "We've never even been apart."

Montag spent millions of dollars on a failed attempt at a music career and more than a dozen plastic surgeries (among them -- a chin reduction, a brow lift, buttock augmentation, two nose jobs, two breast enhancements). Pratt blew his bucks on a "million-dollar wardrobe" and "props" like a "a big blue monster truck" that he drove on one episode of "The Hills."

"I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had," Montag said. "I thought I was investing in myself and my brand. Like Kim [Kardashian.]"

Now Pratt, 27, will do pretty much anything for money.

"If they called me right now and said, 'We want you to be on 'Jersey Shore' and be a bully, and we'll bring your paycheck back,' I'd say, 'Get me on a plane to Italy,'" he said, referring to his former MTV bosses.

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