“At the end of the day, I’m just Mom,” she tells PEOPLE
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- Kristin Cavallari opened up to PEOPLE about her three children’s opinions on her Laguna Beach fame
- Cavallari shares sons Camden, 13 and Jaxon, 11, and daughter Saylor, 10, with her ex-husband, Jay Cutler
- “At the end of the day, I’m just Mom,” she said
Kristin Cavallari is many things to many people — but to her kids, she’s “just Mom.”
At the red carpet premiere of The Reunion: Laguna Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., on March 26, the Let’s Be Honest podcast host opened up to PEOPLE about her children's perspective on her fame, which began when Laguna Beach premiered in 2004. The cast’s reunion comes 20 years after the original show concluded.
Cavallari said her three kids — sons Camden, 13 and Jaxon, 11, and daughter Saylor, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband Jay Cutler — have seen fragments of Laguna Beach, but aren't particularly entertained by it.
"They've seen little bits and pieces, but they think it's really boring," Cavallari explained. "They have no interest in watching a full episode."
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“My kids are older now. I’ve got a teen and then some preteens, and so yes, I can have real conversations with them about it now.” she continued.
Her children are aware of who Cavallari was at the time of the show, as well as the headlines and internet fame that has followed her since the series ended.
"At the end of the day, I'm just Mom," Cavallari said. "And yes, this is something I went through, but they know me as Mom … they know that that's not me."
She added, "There's a huge separation [between Laguna Beach] to who they see on a daily basis, and so they kind of think it's all silly."
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The original show, which premiered in September 2004, followed the relationships and friendships between a group of high schoolers at Laguna Beach High. Season 1 starred seniors Stephen Colletti, Lauren Conrad, Lo Bosworth, Morgan Olsen, Trey Phillips and Christina Schuller, plus Cavallari and Talan Torriero, who were juniors at the time.
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The reunion, a two-hour special, will see the return of Conrad, Cavallari, Colletti, Schuller and Phillips, as well as Dieter Schmitz, Alex Hooser, Jessica Smith Evans and Morgan Smith, who starred in the later two seasons.
The Reunion: Laguna Beach debuts on the Roku Channel on April 10.
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