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When Hills star Heidi Montag returned home to Colorado to show her mom her new face, she didn't exactly get the warm welcome she was expecting!

Heidi tells People, "I was nervous, but also excited…I never thought in my wildest dreams she was going to react the way she did. She was looking at me almost like a zoo animal. It wasn't like I was her daughter anymore. She was looking at me like I was a circus freak."

"I think she was most upset that Spencer was there for me and she wasn't. She was saying how sad it is that my confidence is gone because of the music industry I'm trying to get into," Heidi continued. So what's her real reason for going through with the ten drastic procedures? "I wanted to be the most beautiful, inside and out. It's part of being a pop star," she says.

And Heidi finds all this surprising? I don't know about you, but I think mama Montag's reaction was pretty normal!