What Happened to Lo Bosworth? Running a Wellness Empire in 2026

If you came of age watching MTV in the mid-2000s, you knew Lo Bosworth as the sensible one. While the rest of the “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” cast generated drama by the bucketload, Lo was the friend rolling her eyes in the background, the voice of reason who somehow always seemed a little too grounded for the genre. Then, when “The Hills” wrapped, she did the one thing reality stars almost never do: she left, completely, and didn’t look back. So what happened to her? The short version is that she built a wellness empire most of her castmates never saw coming. Here’s where Lo Bosworth is now.

01Profile

Full name

Lauren "Lo" Bosworth (now Lo Bosworth Natale)

Born

September 29, 1986 (39 years old)

Birthplace

Laguna Beach, California, USA

Occupation

Entrepreneur, founder and chairwoman of Love Wellness, podcast host

Best known for

"Laguna Beach" (2004) and "The Hills" on MTV

Company

Love Wellness, the women's wellness brand she founded in 2016

Family

Married to Dom Natale; daughter Nelle, born January 2026

The funny thing about Lo is that she was always cast as the level-headed best friend rather than the lead. That instinct for keeping her feet on the ground turned out to be the through-line of her whole career — it’s exactly what let her walk away from fame and build something more durable in its place.

02The Rise

From a real Laguna Beach to “Laguna Beach”

Lo Bosworth didn’t have to act like a Laguna Beach teenager — she actually was one. When MTV launched “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” in 2004 as a glossy, scripted-feeling spin on reality TV, Bosworth was part of the original ensemble, a real friend of the show’s central cast. The series was a sensation, essentially inventing the template that “The Hills” and a decade of imitators would follow.

Becoming a fixture on “The Hills”

When the franchise migrated to Los Angeles for “The Hills,” Bosworth came along as a recurring presence and eventually a main cast member, often positioned as the steady, no-nonsense friend in a world built on manufactured conflict. She stayed with the series through its run, which concluded with the sixth and final season premiering in April 2010. By then she’d spent the better part of her late teens and early twenties on camera — long enough to know exactly how the machine worked, and exactly how little she wanted to keep feeding it.

03Stepping Away

When “The Hills” ended in 2010, the 23-year-old Bosworth made her intentions clear: she was done with reality television and planned to build a career outside the genre entirely. It was an unusually clean break for someone who could easily have ridden the format into spin-offs and appearances for years.

What followed was a stretch of trial and error rather than an instant second act. By her own account, she took a job at a sports talent agency that she’s described as the worst she ever had, then left for New York City with a different idea: food. She enrolled at the International Culinary Center, hoping to channel her interests into something tangible — a cooking show, a lifestyle brand, a path that was hers rather than MTV’s.

• 2004Appears in the original cast of MTV's "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" as a teenager in her actual hometown.
• 2006–2010Becomes a recurring then main cast member on "The Hills," typically cast as the grounded friend.
• 2010"The Hills" ends; Bosworth announces she's leaving reality TV to build a career elsewhere.
• 2011–2015Moves to New York, attends culinary school, and launches a lifestyle blog while figuring out her next chapter.
• 2016Founds Love Wellness, the women's wellness brand that becomes her life's work.

04Building Love Wellness

The most important part of Lo Bosworth’s story doesn’t involve cameras at all. By her own account, the years leading up to 2016 were defined by a frightening run of health problems. She has described dealing with depression, anxiety, fatigue, vertigo, and recurring infections — symptoms that went unexplained for roughly a year and a half as she struggled to get doctors to take her seriously. The breakthrough was almost absurdly simple: a physician finally ran a blood test, which revealed vitamin deficiencies that had been driving much of what she was feeling.

That experience left her convinced that women are routinely failed by a system that doesn’t listen to them, and that there was a gap in the market for products designed honestly around women’s bodies. In 2016 she founded Love Wellness, putting in what she’s described as the last of her MTV earnings. The brand focuses on the microbiome — gut, vaginal, and hormonal health — with products like its Bye-Bye Bloat capsules and Good Girl Probiotics becoming bestsellers.

Crucially, she didn’t just slap her name on it; she founded the company and ran it as CEO for years before stepping into the chairwoman role in 2023, when Maria Dempsey (a beauty-industry veteran) took over as chief executive. It hasn’t been a vanity project, either. The brand has reported more than $100 million in retail sales since 2021, with distribution across major retailers — a genuinely significant business rather than a celebrity side hustle.

She’s also been candid that going public about intimate health issues was not, at first, a good look in the influencer economy of the mid-2010s.

It was not cool in 2016 to have your own wellness brand. When I went on Instagram to talk about my health, people were like “this is so embarrassing and cringe.” But a decade later, the status quo has changed pretty quickly. — Lo Bosworth, on launching Love Wellness, WWD, 2026

05What She Is Doing Now

A 10-year wellness journey, and a brand that outlasted the skepticism

In 2026 Love Wellness hit its tenth anniversary, and Bosworth has spent the year reflecting publicly on a decade of building it. What started as a slightly taboo idea — a former reality star talking openly about gut and vaginal health — has aged into the kind of women’s-wellness positioning that’s now thoroughly mainstream. She remains the company’s founder, chairwoman, and public face — having handed day-to-day CEO duties to Maria Dempsey in 2023 — and her arc from MTV cast member to founder is increasingly cited as a model for how reality fame can be converted into a real career.

A new baby and a new podcast

On the personal side, 2026 brought a major life change. Bosworth and her husband, Dom Natale, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Nelle, in January 2026. Becoming a mother reshaped her priorities and gave her a new project: in March 2026 she launched a motherhood podcast, “Tell Me I’m a Good Mom,” through the Dear Media network, with new episodes airing weekly. Rather than a tidy parenting how-to, she’s framed it as an unfiltered look at identity shifts, postpartum reality, and the conversations women have privately but rarely out loud — essentially turning the wellness-founder lens on her own new chapter.

Moms are tough and moms are great and moms deserve their own stage to be applauded. — Lo Bosworth, on launching “Tell Me I’m a Good Mom,” 2026

Reuniting with the Laguna Beach cast — from a distance

The nostalgia machine eventually came calling: in April 2026, Roku released a “Laguna Beach” reunion special bringing the original cast back together, including Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari. Bosworth was very much part of it — but on her own terms. Heavily pregnant at the time the reunion filmed, she joined virtually from New York rather than attending in person, and she also met up with Lauren Conrad to shoot scenes inside the Love Wellness offices that were folded into the special. It was a fitting way to come full circle: present for the reunion, but doing it from inside the company she’d built instead of on a set.

06Summary

Lo Bosworth is the rare reality-TV alum whose most interesting work happened after the cameras stopped rolling. She used the platform, then deliberately stepped off it to build something of her own.

The level-headed friend in the background turned out to be playing a much longer game than anyone on those shows realized. Two decades after Laguna Beach, Lo Bosworth isn’t chasing relevance — she’s running a company, raising a daughter, and talking about it all on her own terms.