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Spencer Pratt is in the crystal business now and he's gunning for Gwyneth Paltrow

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Spencer Pratt holding a big crystal.

The INSIDER Summary

  • Spencer Pratt loves crystals and believes they have healing powers.
  • He sells them and wants to beat Goop's healing crystal kit, he told INSIDER.
  • Crystal healing is a pseudoscience.
  • Pratt acknowledges that healing crystals may not have any scientific backing, but he still thinks they look cool.

Spencer Pratt believes in the power of crystals and he is turning it into a business.

Earlier this year, he sold a line of crystal kits called Spencer's Rocks for around $30. They quickly sold out. Now he's gunning for Gwyneth Paltrow. Through her website Goop, Paltrow sells crystals at high prices. The site claims they're "medicine" crystals that interact with "energy" around them.

His own crystals, "The Hills" star told INSIDER, are the real deal, while Paltrow's are overpriced junk.

"My new competitor is Gwyneth Paltrow selling her $85 medicine bag of tumbled rocks," Pratt told INSIDER. "While I was shopping real crystals."

Pratt's wife, Heidi Montag, is less enthusiastic about the whole crystal thing. She forbade him from "using baby money to just be buying rocks." (Montag is expecting a child in October.) Pratt is only allowed to buy more crystals if he sells crystals he already owns.

Luckily for him, Pratt's first round of crystal kits sold very well and he was able to buy his original crystal collection back. He's also able to invest in more crystals.

lapis playa 📸@forestaragon @thefullestmag @nikkibostwick

A post shared by Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) on Jul 14, 2017 at 9:47pm PDT

Pratt believes that crystals hold "energy," and that different crystals can amplify emotions in the people who interact with them. It's a system that goes hand-in-hand with meditating on one's own emotions. For example, someone meditating on love would feel more love if they were holding a rose quartz, the crystal associated with that emotion.

"My vibe is that our body is electric," Pratt said. "We have chakras. And these cords on our computer screens or whatever — somehow it holds energy or a picture or whatever."

Pratt concedes that his theory isn't exactly backed by science.

"My made-up idea is that you holding or being around these crystals that hold energy — because we use them in technology, there’s some type of circuit."

new lazuli who dis 📸 @forestaragon

A post shared by Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) on Jul 16, 2017 at 2:32pm PDT

Crystal healing is a pseudoscience. But even if science never proves that crystals can harness energy, Pratt still thinks they look cool. And that's good enough.

"I think they’re beyond the coolest thing you can decorate your house with," Pratt said. "If one day we prove there is energy off of them and everyone agrees, that would be great. If not, I’m fine with them not. And they look dope to me."

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