"Speidi," aka Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, have made the reality TV rounds as a couple many people have loved to hate first on The Hills in 2006, then on I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother, and Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. But the craziest thing is that despite their relationship drama being consistently played out on screen, the married couple (they tied the knot in April 2009) is still going strong. On creating a successful marriage "against the odds," Pratt said:
"Having the perception of being not so liked in the media and the public made our marriage stronger because when it seems like no one else likes you, you're like, 'Well I love you!' So I feel like that really brought us together, when it felt like it was only us on the planet and everybody else is like 'We hate you.'
Other than that, very few jobs you spend every minute with your wife. I always say, my parents have been married 40 years, but I feel like I've spent more time with my wife then my own parents have because my dad goes to work at 7 a.m. and comes home at 7 p.m. Whereas, Heidi and I wake up and are like, 'Hey! How are you again? That was fun last night! Have a good day!' So we definitely spend a lot of time together."
But what are they up to now? Montag filled us in (and you might be surprised):
"We moved up to Santa Barbara and took a few years to be like 'OK, who are we? What do we want to do? Let's really work on our real relationships with family members and figure things out.' Spencer went back to school, and he just graduated from USC with a political science degree. I was his notetaker in class, so that was fun, too."
Yes, she went to all his classes with him.
"He wasn't going to go! We would drive from Santa Barbara to LA, and that's a long commute. So I had to be there to help him. But we've maintained two lives. We have a character, Speidi, and then it's our real marriage. For us, it's two different worlds that we've been able to kind of separate at the same time. But we're always a team. We get to go on as a team. We get to work together, and that always continues to strengthen us."
