WE GOT to know her as a stinking- rich hotel heiress ready to splash her daddy’s cash on anything her heart desired. Some would say she’s only famous for being a party girl and coining the phrase, “That’s hot.”
But if there’s one thing Paris Hilton has taught us it’s not to judge a book by its cover.
Since opening up about the abuse she suffered at a private boarding school during her teens, she’s become a prominent advocate against child abuse.
And now she’s sharing even more and wants to show her true self.
In her new autobiography, Paris: The Memoir, she delves deeper into darker, shocking details from her high school years. In the book she reveals she had an abortion in her twenties because she wasn’t ready to be a mom.
The abuse she’d suffered at the boarding school scarred her but her experiences turned her into the person she is today. “I feel so proud of the woman I’ve become because for so long I kept all of that with me,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
“All the negative, horrible words they’d say to me every single day, that sticks with you. I just wasn’t secure. Now I feel people finally respect me and get me in ways they never did.”
Paris (42) now wants people to really get to know her.
Fans know she’s made a fortune as a model, reality TV star, author, singer, actress and professional DJ, and in January she and her husband, Carter Reum (42), welcomed their son, Phoenix.
But she’s peeling back the layers because she wants people to know her public persona is a far cry from who she is behind closed doors. “I’m not a dumb blonde. I’m just good at pretending to be one,” she tells Glamour UK magazine.
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