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From Paris with Love

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The day after NYLON sent Paris Hilton the creative brief for this cover shoot, she came back with only one note: She had a better reference image in mind for feathery, blond waves than old photos of Farrah Fawcett — a picture of herself from the 2004 Teen Choice Awards. “I am the mood board,” Hilton tells NYLON later. “I am the blueprint.”

Who would dare disagree? Just ask Charli XCX, who nodded to Hilton’s trucker-hat reign in the early 2000s with her recent single “Von Dutch.” (Did Hilton have a Brat summer? “Always,” she says. “I’m the original brat.”) Or Miley Cyrus or Olivia Rodrigo, who have both joined Hilton for sing-alongs to her 2006 hit “Stars Are Blind” in recent years. Or pop powerhouse Bebe Rexha, who gamely steps into NYLON interviewer mode to chat with Hilton about her legacy, from her Simple Life days with Nicole Richie to multi-hyphenate motherhood. The two are IRL friends — the “I’m the Drama” singer attended Hilton’s wedding to Carter Reum in 2021 and calls Hilton one of her few true celebrity pals in Hollywood. “I only go out for a Paris party,” Rexha says.

Hilton, who endured more than her share of punchlines and tabloid scrutiny in the early 2000s, doesn’t take the love for granted. “For anyone to say they’re inspired by me means the world to me. I am just so proud to see all these girls killing it,” she says. And with her cultural footprint more apparent than ever, it feels only right that she’s returning to her pop career and finally releasing Infinite Icon, the long-awaited follow-up to her nearly 20-year-old debut, Paris.

Executive produced by Sia and featuring guest spots from Rina Sawayama and Meghan Trainor, Infinite Icon — out Friday — is an album Hilton says she couldn’t have made earlier in her career. But after unpacking the traumas beneath her party-girl image in last year’s Paris: The Memoir and the 2020 documentary This Is Paris, she’s ready for listeners to know her on a deeper level with songs like “ADHD,” a surprising ballad about her experience with the disorder, and “Legacy,” a banger about finding domestic bliss with Reum and their two children, London and Phoenix.

“People don’t see me as that [dumb blond] character anymore,” the 43-year-old says. “They see me as a human being with feelings, that I’m real and I’m vulnerable and honest. Now people can see me in a different way when it comes to music as well.”

Below, Hilton speaks with Bebe Rexha about opening up in the studio, throwing epic house parties with Megan Thee Stallion, and reuniting with Richie for a new reality show.

BEBE REXHA: Wow, excuse me! Press day! Dang! You look stunning. You’re glowing. And you have the [Infinite Icon] sign behind you and everything. Are you doing tons of interviews today?
PARIS HILTON: No, today after this I go to shoot something with Nicole.

Are you at your podcast house right now?
I’m at the house where I had the birthday party.

Got it. I get confused — there’s so many houses! [Laughs.] I listened to the album and I have to say, I know I texted you this, but I’m really proud. What I love the most is you talking about fame, talking about your ADHD. I feel like in your songs, you’ve never opened up like that before. It’s a different side of Paris. But before we get into that, I want to know: What is an infinite icon?
Someone who inspires generations to be unapologetic, be themselves, and make a difference in people’s lives. Someone who brings that sparkle and fun and does it all in an iconic way.

So just being you.
Basically. I thought it was the perfect title to describe me.

I’m dead. So this is your first album in 18 years. How do you feel about the whole process this time?
I’m so proud of this album. I’ve been working on it the past year and a half with Sia as executive producer.

Girl, that’s iconic.
Icons only, bitch. She brought out something in me that I didn’t even know I had. To have someone like Sia believe in me made me believe in myself even more. And she really pushed me to use my real voice. My first album was all about being hot and partying. It was during my party girl era. It was very 2000s and what that whole time was about. So I mostly would use my breathy Marilyn voice. But Sia really pushed me to sing with my real voice, like how I talk in real life.

Everybody talks about that on TikTok! People are obsessed with it.
In the beginning, it was kind of a trauma response, where I wanted to create this perfect Barbie doll life because of what I went through as a teenager at those emotional-growth boarding… I hate even calling them “schools.” This was a protective mask. And then getting on The Simple Life, I was being told, “We want you to play up this ditzy airhead character.” I didn’t realize it would be such a huge success and we’d have to continue on for five seasons. Doing all the late night shows and interviews, of course I would have to use the voice there, too. So I just got used to it.

Were you ever annoyed by it? Like “OK, this is getting too much.” Because I feel like now you’re settling into it and showing you can be both. You can be everything.
Exactly. I’ve been on this whole path of self-discovery the past few years, with my documentary, my memoir, and now with this album. I’m reclaiming my story. That voice is the more playful side of me. I’ll do it if I’m shy, or if I’m just having fun. It’s part of my personality, so I think it’s going to be part of me forever.

Full interview: nylon.com

August 05: On set of “The Simple Life” in Duarte

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July 29: on yacht in Saint Tropez

 

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From fighting for children’s rights to collaborating with Sia on new music

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“Do you want a blanket, Paris?” I ask from the side of the camera. She animatedly nods her head, a desperate “Please” escaping from her lips. Grabbing the only warm material I can find, I wrap Hilton’s shoulders in wool, and she holds on to me for body heat. As we cozy up to each other in a hug that feels way more comfortable than it should be (we’ve only just met), I tell her I hope she has a nice bath waiting for her at home. Does she ever! “Every night, my husband [Carter Reum] and I take a bubble bath together — it’s our ritual,” she shares, blushing. “We talk about our day and what’s going on with our businesses; it’s sweet and fun. These past couple of years with him have been the best of my life.”

You see, Hilton has just come out on the other side of an identity crisis of sorts. Ten (maybe even just five) years ago, it would have been easy, nay expected, to write her off as a spoiled heiress, the teenage star of a sex tape, the dumb blond from The Simple Life and a party girl who said things like “That’s hot.” But thanks to the 2020 documentary This Is Paris and bestselling book Paris: The Memoir, the world has learned just how colossally we have underestimated her.

Hilton is a performance artist (more on that later), a businesswoman who sits atop an empire of 19 different product lines, a survivor of the abusive “reform” boarding-school system, a fierce children’s-rights advocate who is fighting to pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act in the U.S. Congress, a wife and mom of two kids under two and a DJ and singer coming out of an early retirement.

“I’m here to save pop music,” she tells me playfully over the phone the day after the shoot. Her second album is coming out this fall, 18 years after her first and hot on the heels of her collaboration with Sia on the song, “Fame Won’t Love You.” And with the singer as the executive producer, Hilton’s new slate of songs promises to be the perfect cocktail of catchy and contemplative, especially as the first single makes its debut this summer, around Pride. (For reference, her 2023 Pride concert sold out in just three minutes!) “It has everything,” she teases about the album. “It’s very popcentric, obviously, but it also has love songs, dance music and a few ballads.”

Fittingly, the playlist Hilton has chosen for the photo shoot is called “Y2K party,” and, yes, her 2006 bop “Stars Are Blind” does come on, which prompts a few giggles. But nothing can distract her from her mission: to serve looks. Hilton knows how to pose, where to look, what angles to cheat and how to make her body look its best. (To be fair, though, it would be hard to make her look bad.)

What I was not expecting, however, was the shyness that took over once the cameras turned off. She’s quiet, gentle and incredibly kind to everyone on-set, and I get the sense that she’s a natural introvert thrust into extrovert territory for her job. Nevertheless, she’s glowing — more than any fake tan. I don’t doubt that she’s been recently touched by a tanning machine, but, forgive the sentimentality, it really feels like it’s coming from within — from a woman who is finally, to her core, happy. And she is happy; it just took a while for her to get there.

Paris: The Memoir paints the portrait of a young woman who is drowning in trauma, desperately grasping onto any available life raft she can find. Her rebellious childhood started in New York City in the early 1980s but reached a tipping point in the ’90s. Suffocated by her strict parents and private schools that couldn’t accommodate her challenges (she was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult), Hilton was desperate for an escape and found refuge on dance floors across the city. Afraid for her safety, the Hiltons decided to send their 16-year-old to a boarding school for “troubled teens.” And this is where things got dark. Like, really dark.

It started with two men kidnapping Hilton in the middle of the night, literally dragging her out of her bedroom by her ankles as her parents watched. For the next year and a half, a teenage Hilton was beaten, degraded and starved at multiple U.S. institutions, the worst of which was Provo Canyon School in Utah. Despite numerous attempts to run away, Hilton was regularly drugged and sedated against her will, subjected to invasive “cervical exams” by male and female “teachers” and eventually stripped and put into solitary confinement for days on end. (It has since come out that her parents were unaware of the mistreatment happening at these facilities.)

It was in those cells where the “Paris Persona” was first born. “The darkness was so all-consuming, the only way I could stay alive was to find a source of light inside myself,” she writes in her memoir. “This wasn’t a nebulous daydream; it was a mechanically specific vision. I plotted logistics…. I focused on my inner empire. I would make so much money and be so successful, no one could ever have control over me again.”

When Hilton finally got out, she wasted no time in putting her plan into action. After months of not even being allowed to look in a mirror, she was determined to make up for lost time, lost shopping, lost partying, lost love and lost attention. (For many years, Hilton equated love and paparazzi attention as one and the same.)

She quickly became an L.A. socialite, and so did her friends — like longtime BFF Nicole Richie, whom she met when she was a child. Enter the producers of The Simple Life, who were looking to revamp reality TV and knew just the two young women to do it. “They basically told us, ‘Nicole, you’re the troublemaker, and Paris, you’re the dumb blond,’ and I went full force with that narrative,” Hilton explains. “When the show became such a huge phenomenon, people thought that was who I actually was, so I played into it.”

Full interview: fashionmagazine.com

Paris Hilton Introduces Daughter London in First Official Photos as Family of Four

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Paris Hilton is introducing her baby daughter to the world!

The multi-hyphenate, 43, is sharing the first official photos of her daughter London, 5 months, exclusively with PEOPLE.

“With Mother’s Day around the corner, I couldn’t resist introducing the world to my baby girl London and sharing these precious moments of our family together,” Hilton tells PEOPLE.

“Phoenix and London are everything to me, and I feel like the luckiest woman in the world to be married to the love of my life and have our beautiful family. We make the absolute best team, and my life finally feels complete.”

In honor of London’s big moment, Hilton is releasing her new song “FAME WON’T LOVE YOU” in collaboration with Sia.

“When I thought of how to introduce the world to London, I realized the perfect soundtrack to her introduction is my new song with Sia called “FAME WON’T LOVE YOU.” This is my message to my babies — I will always and forever love you and be here for you,” says the proud mom.

She went on to describe her songwriting process with Sia, saying that the two leaned into Hilton’s personal experiences.

“When Sia and I started creating music together, we talked a lot about my personal story of fame at a young age, the traumas I experienced in my teen years, the pressure the media can put on young women in particular, my journey into motherhood and building my family,” Hilton says. “One of the first songs Sia brought to me was this incredible track that really felt like it told my story.”

“I’m honored to have had the opportunity to collaborate on this song with the brilliant Sia, the extraordinarily talented writer/producer Greg Kurstin and their whole team. The message of the song rings so true to me,” the mom of two continues.

“All of the things I thought were going to make me happy – celebrity, fame, followers, beauty – can often leave you feeling empty and lonely. What has brought me really deep fulfillment has been becoming a mother, building a family with Carter and deepening my relationships with my family and friends.”

Hilton shares her two kids — daughter London and son Phoenix, 15 months — with husband Carter Reum, 43.

Earlier this month, Hilton revealed why she hadn’t shown her daughter’s face yet, responding to a fan who commented on one of her TikToks of her son Phoenix.

One viewer expressed how cute Phoenix is and said she couldn’t wait until Hilton felt safe enough to show her daughter London.

“🥹🥰love you, soon 💗,” the mom of two responded to the commenter.

The weekend prior, Hilton posted a series of photos from her Easter celebrations with her family of four, posing on the stairs with Phoenix as they were surrounded by toy bunnies. In the comments, fans expressed similar sentiments, saying how cute Phoenix is and that they couldn’t wait to see London.

Reum responded to one of the user’s comments, saying that the couple wasn’t ready to share their daughter with the world yet.

“Not quite ready to share her w the world but she’s adorable and looks just like her mamma ❤❤,” Reum wrote.

Source: people.com

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