Oh how lucky we are to living in the Paris Hilton Age. I’m positive that’s how this time will be remembered in history and we shall be referred to as PHiltonites. I love writing about Paris. I know I mock her quite a bit, but she utterly fascinates me. She was recently given the cover story for Ocean Drive Magazine and, I mean – why? She’s got a new(ish) perfume to sell but it’s her 24th fragrance, does that deserve a cover story? In the interview, Paris reiterates some of her favorite talking points, mostly that the current phenomena of celebrity is all her doing. While I can point out her hubris, I can’t really fault what she’s saying. She was, in many ways, the first of her kind – for better or worse. You can read the full interview here. I really like the fashion they have her in for the photos. I’m posting a few highlights but I had to edit the responses for space.
Think about all the potential opportunities and money that could have been made back then…
I was definitely before my time, and the beginning of a whole new era, and it started a new generation and genre of celebrity. I think it was pretty groundbreaking, and I love being a pioneer. But being a businesswoman, I would’ve loved to have capitalized on it. I was just doing it because I was having fun… I’m very proud I started a whole new way for young people, young entrepreneurs and people with dreams to make a living and a very lucrative business off
of it.What would be your advice if you were staring into a mirror, or you were talking to young stars of today?
I’ve been in this business for so long now, I’ve seen so many people come and go, it can’t just be some little boring shit that they do. I’ve seen a lot of things where people do some crazy publicity stunt that’s humiliating.How would you say you’ve evolved?
My priorities have completely shifted. I’ve really grown and just became an adult, learning and having a lot of life lessons. It really shaped me into the person I am today… I’m very proud of the woman I am today. I didn’t want to be known as just the Hilton Hotel granddaughter. I wanted to be known as Paris.Do you have any regrets? Is there anything you wish you would have done differently?
I have no regrets in life; everything made me the woman I am today. But there are certain people who I wish I never met and that I just wasn’t so naïve sometimes, and I always wish that I knew everything that I know now back then. I look back and I don’t even feel like I’m the same person anymore.
Again, I can’t dispute that Paris did expand the circle of the celebrity genre. I’m confused about her comment that she would have liked to capitalized on her paid appearance – she was earning $1M to show up at a party and used that money and fame as a foundation for her current empire, I think she completely capitalized on it. She was 20, by her own admission, I think she played her cards better than most would at that age. Also her comments about publicity stunts gave me pause because I would put that stupid airplane prank up as a dumb publicity stunt so she’s obviously not above that kind of self-promotion.
Paris admitted she did nothing to generate being paid for appearances, that the opportunities fell into her lap. It makes me wonder how much of her other businesses were the same. We often hear about her being a businesswoman (mostly from Paris herself) but we don’t hear about her going after business. I’m not discrediting her as a businesswoman, just wondering if she’s driven as well as savvy. I really liked that this interview covered her philanthropy, much more than I’ve read elsewhere. She said she has her team check out locations to find “the most credible charities or orphanages or anything that has to do with animals or children, where I can go and donate and spend my time there.” Well-considered contributions impress me. Good for you, Paris.
But seriously, whom does Paris wish she’d never met?
Photo credit: Ocean Drive and WENN Photos
Trying to stay relevant? Has-been
But she is right. She began an era of vanity.
Yeah she is right. She was the first woman super-famous for nothing. She was the person Kim Kardashian moulded herself after. Never forget that.
I think she was talking about Kim Kardashian and how she thinks she would have been just like her if she capitalized on it further. Bull. She took it beyond what she could and she’s insanely losing her mind above and beyond jealous that she thinks Kim took it. further. Which Kim did. But that’s also because Kim has sisters who added some personality and the mom who was a total pimp. Plus, there’s a meanness to Paris that I never saw much in Kim by comparison.
Paris is refreshing in the sense that she never wanted people to take her very seriously. She was just having fun and people were drawn to her and the lifestyle. Everyone that has come after her wants to be seen way too credibly. I’ll give credit where it’s due, but don’t kid yourself. You may have capitalized on a few things and good for you, but you’re not Bill Gates.
She is still a racist, shitty person.
My guesses to the people she wishes that she had never met? Number one, Rick Salomon and number two, Kim Kardashian.
She’s publicly said she wishes she’d never met Rick Solomon. Why do I know this?
We all wish she’d never met Kim Kardashian. The world would be a better place if that awful family hadn’t become famous.
That’s true; Paris is a very racist shitty person. Her contribution to this era she is speaking about is an era of elitist superficial greed. It’s like if the 80s was a person.
“She is still a racist, shitty person.”
This.
I’ll never forget seeing Paris & Nicky on a talk show, and their mom shared how they’ve never learned about or used a washing machine.
Lord, grant me the AMAZING self-confidence of a mediocre, Whypipo heiress…Amen…
She probably wishes she’s never met rapist Joe Francis who has been hiding out, hoping to flee allegations, I hear.
I sometimes watch a YouTuber. She Mostly posts about being trans. She said she met Lindsay and Paris and basically both have so much in common. They’re nasty people and look down on people who are “beneath” them and call them peasants. She said they were nice to her ,but was surprised how they treated other people.
Yes. Thanks to Paris we now make stupid, talentless people famous. Thank you Paris.
True! But I prefer Paris stupidity over any Kardashians. This family is vile to a whole new level…the way they generate attention out of lies, their insecurities, and the fact that they’re using kids like fashion accessories. So much plastic they could make a recycle bin blush.
When I read about the people she wishes she never met, I think Kim Kardashian. Kim was able to use a similar model as Paris to fame, but the whole Kardashian clan now make a lot of money and have a whole empire built around them. And while Paris still makes money, I am sure, she does not command the media’s attention like the Kardashians do. And I bet that irks her.
She looks like her aunt in that last picture.
Like others have posted I bet its Kim that shes referring to. Kim was orginally known as Paris’s friend and now shes way more famous than Paris.
She recently said in an interview that she wishes she hadn’t met Rick Solomon.
http://www.eonline.com/news/873667/paris-hilton-believes-she-could-have-been-like-princess-diana-if-it-weren-t-for-her-sex-tape
Paris is actually looking surprisingly pretty and natural. I never thought I’d say that. It’s a weird world when seeing her is a relieving break from the plastic Kardashians.
I think she’s trying to put herself back on the same fame level as Kim K. Every time Paris is interviewed lately, she’s constantly referring to herself as a businesswoman and trying to remind us how successful she is.
I mean, whatever else we may think about the Kardashians, you have to give them credit for being savvy business people. Who would have thought that one lie about not getting fillers in your lips could eventually become a billion dollar cosmetics business?
I’d be embarrassed to admit I had anything, at all, to do with ushering in a new era that takes narcissism, hypocrisy, superficiality and intellectual retardation soaring to great looming and pervasive heights lol.
Seriously.
Edie Sedgewyck did this whole thing much, much before Paris.