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Why Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Say 6-Year-Old Son Gunner Is Ready for His YouTube Career

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag's son Gunner is just beginning. The pen, or rather the camera, is in his hand as The Hills stars tells E! their 6-year-old wants to launch a YouTube channel.

At just 6 years old, much of Gunner Pratt's life is still unwritten.

However, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag's eldest son is already following in his parents' famous footsteps and reaching for something in the distance—social media fame.

"Gunner is gonna come out with his own YouTube channel," Heidi told E! News in an exclusive interview last month. "We're actually working on it."

In fact, The Hills couple—who are also parents to 19-month-old son Ryker Pratt—say Gunner has been asking for his own YouTube channel for over a year.

"No momager-dadager," Spencer insisted. "But he watches all these kids on YouTube. So he sees like, 'Why do they get to have unboxed toys?' It's not us—even though I'm so excited for his channel."

Still, Gunner isn't exactly staring at a blank page before him. After all, both he and Ryker have their own Instagram pages managed by their parents—with the older sibling already accumulating more than 70,000 followers.

Plus, Gunner is awfully familiar with his mom and dad's fame.

"He now sees mom as like a singer-pop star," Spencer said of the "I'll Do It" artist. "But before, he just understood social media because we're always filming ourselves. So he's like, 'Show this to Snapchat. Dad, put this or don't put this on Snapchat. We don't want this.' So, he's already a good little director."

And while Gunner just graduated from kindergarten, he's already developed an appreciation for respectful fans.

"He loves when people come up to us and ask for a photo and they leave," his father added. "He goes, 'That was a nice fan, Dad.' I'm like, 'They were very nice. Supporter—we'll call them supporters, son.'"

Though Gunner and Ryker aren't old enough to have watched their mom and dad on The Hills in the aughts, the Speidi they would have seen on their screens then probably wouldn't match the duo they know now—especially because Heidi says she's grown more serious since becoming a parent.

"Kind of like the captain of the ship," she said. "I'm scheduling things, and I have to get everyone out on time, and 'do you have snacks and water and this and that?' So I feel like I'm always on this go-mode. So I'm trying really hard to breathe in that and not take everything so seriously. But it's hard. You ask 10 times to get out of the house, and you're late, and there's just so much going on. So I'm trying really hard to find that balance of letting things go and keeping things in order and on time."

Meanwhile, Spencer said he's trying to maintain balance in other areas of his life. This includes his approach to fitness and nutrition, with him noting he was inspired by Heidi's weight-loss journey.

"Heidi still has a fun life," Spencer said while promoting his partnership with Hydroxycut. "She has red wine sometimes and eats bread. But she works out so hard. If we're at soccer practice with Gunner, she's doing lunges or air squats. And so yeah, the six pack is obviously my goal, but I just really would like to have a fitness, health lifestyle."

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