Hilton performs a DJ set in Austin, Texas in 2022.īut Hilton also writes about that pop culture ubiquity serving as a way to cope with her experience in the so-called troubled teen industry. And I was just ready to get real and tell my truth.' 'And I feel that the past over two decades in this industry, my story has been told by other people. 'I just feel for so long I've been misunderstood and underestimated,' Hilton told NPR.

Now, Hilton, 42, is ready to harness her voice in a new way after spending years living as what she describes as a manufactured caricature - in part, to protect herself. An early-aughts emblem of femininity and excess, whose breathy baby voice still conjures memories of the catchphrase, 'That's hot.' A consummate party girl who leveraged her starpower to launch a career in modeling and music. A mainstay of tabloid gossip, thanks to an ever-present throng of paparazzi and a leaked sex tape. The result is an intimate and unexpected memoir about persona and personification, the price of being young and disobedient, and the complexity of manifesting your dreams after watching part of yourself disappear.Hilton says she has been misunderstood and underestimated.Ĭole Bennetts/Getty Images for Paris Hiltonīefore the word 'influencer' was a household term, before Instagram and TikTok allowed users to document every moment of their life in real time, Paris Hilton was the woman at the center of it all.Ī platinum blonde heiress with a mega successful reality show.

The parallel story arcs in Hilton’s braided narrative come to full bloom as a watershed portrait of the Aughts, challenging each of us to question our role in her story and her role in ours. PARIS recounts her perilous journey through pre-#METOO sexual politics with grace, generosity, and plenty of fun, rising above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose. In this revealing and thought-provoking book, Hilton will separate the creation from the creator, the brand from the ambassador, and show the woman who grew up with incredible privilege but was also trapped in a world of unreasonable expectation at a moment when young women were humiliated for sport in a gossip economy on steroids. Paris is the story people have always wanted Paris Hilton to tell-the story of who she really is. Yes, she is the media personality, DJ, entrepreneur, model, singer, actress, and icon beloved all over the globe.

But there was always more to Paris Hilton than met the eye. Until, in a revealing documentary, Paris Hilton disclosed that her childhood was shattered by two years of strip searches, isolation, beatings, restraint, and brainwashing within the now infamous “troubled teen industry,” Paris Hilton was simply the billionaire heiress America had watched grow up on television, on the internet, and in tabloids.

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