Category: Photoshoots

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

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

Paris Hilton Enters Her “Mom Era”

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Paris Hilton really, really wanted a daughter. She wanted a daughter so badly that five weeks before her son, Phoenix, was born via surrogate this past January, Hilton and her husband, venture capitalist Carter Reum, were already trying for another surrogate pregnancy: undergoing a fresh round of in vitro fertilization, injecting Hilton’s belly with hormones and, through her whimpers of pain, pleading for a girl. On the morning of Hilton’s egg retrieval, she dressed to manifest the sex of her next baby: hot pink terry cloth tracksuit, blush pink bucket hat, and a Barbie-pink quilted Chanel purse.

About a year later, when I meet her at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, in the middle of a 24-hour press blitz for the second season of her Peacock reality show, Paris in Love, Hilton is beaming. Days earlier, only 10 months after welcoming Phoenix, she finally got her girl, London Marilyn Hilton Reum. Like her mother, London is named for an iconic European metropolis; Marilyn is an homage to Hilton’s late paternal grandmother. Hilton’s house is already festooned with pink Christmas trees, and she is “over the moon.”

“I always imagined my mini-me, putting her in little dresses and all the mommy-and-me things we could do together,” says Hilton, drinking a venti chai with coconut milk through an on-brand pink straw. “Just having my little best friend.” She’s wearing a red Rebecca Vallance cocktail dress bedazzled with crystal bows, nude fishnets, and silver heels. Her face is still glazed with TV-ready bronzer, after a morning filming back-to-back segments with Hoda & Jenna, Kelly & Mark, and Kelly Clarkson. “I miss her so much,” she says of London, who is home in L.A. Along with Reum, Hilton’s entourage fills a conference room: publicists, photographers, videographers. Her whole life is content, as Hilton probably knows better than anyone. She speaks, at first, in her patented baby-soft voice, which in person is as soothing as ASMR. “I’m in my Mom Era,” Hilton says. “This is my best era yet.”

To go from zero to two babies in the same calendar year would boggle most parental minds, but Hilton projects total serenity. The former host of Ibiza’s Foam & Diamonds party has been blessed with quiet nights. “They are such good babies. They’re on an amazing sleep schedule, eating schedule, so they don’t cry. They’re so happy,” Hilton says. She is transparent about child care, featuring her hard-working “baby nanny” on the new season of Paris in Love (now streaming). “I feel so lucky because all my other friends who have kids are like, ‘I’m up all night. They’re crying all night.’ My babies, they’re just so calm, so chill.”

For all the versions of Paris that have played out in her two decades of fame — party girl, The Simple Life starlet, tabloid punching bag, and now entrepreneur and New York Times-bestselling author of Paris: The Memoir — Hilton, 42, has longed for motherhood for some time. She’s had baby clothes in storage for years. Before reconnecting with Reum (whom she’s known since her 20s) four Thanksgivings ago at his sister’s house, she froze her eggs and was considering single motherhood. Burned by past relationships and engagements, Hilton remembers thinking, “I’d rather just have my own children by myself.”

Before Reum, “I was always searching,” Hilton tells me. “Even if I was in a relationship, I was always looking for something else.” Now, with a loving and supportive partner, plus their two babies, Hilton says she has found a sense of peace — her own version of the simple life.

“I feel like my life is finally complete,” she says. “We’re the cutesy crew.” That alliterative catchphrase dates back to her 2021 wedding at the former Bel-Air estate of her grandfather, Conrad Hilton, where Reum vowed, “I can’t wait for forever with our cutesy crew.” Phoenix and London join the crew’s teacup canine members, including Ether, Crypto, Prince Tokyo Gizmo Hilton, and Slivington — a riff on “sliving,” Hilton’s go-to portmanteau of “slaying” and “living.”

Hilton “is such a doting mother,” says her younger sister, Nicholai “Nicky” Rothschild, a mom of three herself. “I always joke: If her dogs are any indication about what kind of mother she’ll be, it’s going to be pretty fabulous.”

Although the timing of Hilton’s growing family may seem like a chaotic coincidence, she is grateful it happened as it did. “We wanted them to be close in age so they could grow up together,” she says. And she’s glad Phoenix arrived first. (Hilton has no particular emotional attachment to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, but she liked the idea of referencing River Phoenix and the symbolism of a “magical, rising phoenix.”)

“He’s going to be the protective big brother,” she predicts, sharing that Phoenix is already gently petting London’s head. The high chirp of Hilton’s voice falls ever so slightly as she shifts the conversation from bubbly “It’s a girl!” chat to the difficult and traumatic past she has begun to share with the world. “I wish I had a big brother growing up,” Hilton says. “So many bad things that happened wouldn’t have happened if I had a big brother at school to watch and protect me.”

Full interview: romper.com

Paris Hilton Implores You to Add Pink to Your Kitchen

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It is now a fact that is, if not widely acknowledged, at least hard to dispute: Paris Hilton is an astute businesswoman. She has her own agency, a music career, a podcast, and recently walked the runways in Paris Fashion Week. While Hilton has evolved from the ditzy Simple Life character of the early aughts, her image is still greatly tied to the era that saw her meteoric rise into the public eye. Case in point: a “That’s Hot” mug and mug warmer in her new Be an Icon collection, available later this month at Walmart.

The line, a collaboration between Hilton and housewares company Epoca, offers a wide variety of pink-on-pink cookware, serving-ware, and gadgets, all very on-trend at the moment. “I invented Barbie core,” Hilton laughs. (More muted colors like eggshell are available as well.) But ever the evangelist, Hilton urges folks to give her signature shade a try. “My advice is if someone doesn’t have pink in their kitchen, they should, because it just will brighten up their day.”

The line might seem like a surprise to some, but after Hilton’s delightful Netflix show Cooking with Paris, where she shared both her triumphs and pitfalls in the kitchen, she proved herself to be a charming homemaker. The mother to son Phoenix, eight months, (with husband Carter Reum), sees it all as part of her throughline. “I love that character; it is just something that will always be a part of me since The Simple Life, and I just feel like it’s the more fun side of me, because I obviously have my serious side with my business, but I’m also a kid at heart and I’m very girly, and I like to be silly. But it was definitely an inspiration for this line.”

Never one to rest on her laurels, Hilton is looking forward to the next phase of the line. “I’m excited to get more into homeware and into furniture and into doing different baby products,” Hilton shares. “I feel like the sky is really the limit, and I’m just excited to add more things to my ever-expanding brand.”

What city do you live in?
Beverly Hills.

Describe the style of your home in one sentence.
On brand—when you walk in, you immediately know it’s my house just because it’s just so fun and eclectic and unique, it’s like walking into this magical world.

What is one kitchen item you use every single day?
From my new cookware collection, and it’s my coffee mug that says be an icon.

What is your favorite gadget or appliance?
My new beauty fridge from my line, and I love that it has a cool setting and also a warm setting. I have two of them, and I keep one in my bedroom next to my bed on cold, and it has my eye masks and face mask. And then I have another one that I put in my spa area so that I have warm towels ready to go.

What is your bedtime ritual?
My bedtime ritual is I have this machine called a Ballancer Pro, which is an electric lymphatic machine, which I’m obsessed with. And I do that as well as listen to this thing called Sleep Fan, which is an app that has white noise that helps me relax. I have all my little skin care gadgets and kind of just lay in bed with a face mask, and then I’ll put on an LED light and then my eye masks and just kind of chill and do some self-care.

What is your ideal bedding setup?
Lots of pillows, probably 10 pillows on the bed. Lots of blankets, I love a duvet. And then on top I have a very fluffy blanket and my other little blanky that I love. So I have just lots of blankets and pillows, sleep masks, silicone earplugs, a Hatch that has music that plays as well, and a humidifier and fans and I like to have it to around 65 degrees. So very cold and cozy.

Which room in your house is your favorite and why?
My sliving [Hilton’s portmanteau for “slaying” and “living”] spa, because I’m obsessed with wellness and anything that has to do with antiaging. And I have a four-person hyperbaric chamber, a huge cryotherapy machine, HydraFacial machines, and this huge Omnilux laser machine. Literally, when you walk in you feel like you’re walking into a real spa that has all the medical grade equipment and the LED sauna, my Sunlighten, which I’m obsessed with. I have a huge four-person one, and I go in there and spend hours doing business calls or other tasks.

Describe one item in your home that you brought back from a trip.
I just got this really amazing mirror in New York and it’s really big and kind of wavy and it has these neon lights that light up. So it‘s the perfect selfie mirror to take cute pictures of my outfits.

What object in your house has extra sentimental value?
One of my favorite things is right when you walk into the entrance way, I have this giant toy llama that Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian sent for Phoenix [Hilton’s son] when he was born. He loves animals, and he loves his puppies, and he loves the llama. Every time we walk by it, he wants to go pet it. It’s just so adorable and puts a smile on my face every time I walk in because I’m obsessed with llamas, and it just looks so cute, and everybody who walks in is like, “Oh, my God.” They assume it’s a real llama because it looks so realistic.

What is the oldest thing in your house?
My mom bought me this beautiful antique boudoir, and I have all 29 fragrances from my line, so I have all of those displayed in there with all my favorite perfumes, and it’s just so beautiful. It reminds me of when I was little. I would always go into my mom’s boudoir with my sister, and we would try on all her perfumes. I had a dream one day of having my own perfume.

What is the newest thing in your house?
Newest thing is a cool neon sign. I’m building a gaming area because I just released my new Roblox world called Sliving Land. So I had this custom neon sign made by Yellow Pop. It’s this really cool neon pink, and it has the Sliving Land logo, and I’m just picking out all the other things for my gamer-girl area.

Do you have a room or area that serves an unusual purpose?
I turned one of my living rooms into a room where I have a lot of meetings. I do all my fittings, my business deals, and I’ve also built a full-on photo studio there because I’m trying to do as much as possible from home so I can be with my baby. So instead of going to a studio, we just have it at the house and build a podcast studio and a recording studio so I can do my podcast, my new album, and my photo shoots as much as possible so I can just be with my baby as much as I can.

What would you change about your home if you could choose only one thing?
I wouldn’t change anything. I just feel so happy. We moved in last year, and I’ve just made it so much fun, and it makes me smile every day.

Source: architecturaldigest.com

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