Paris Hilton Would Like to Be an Art Teacher

[ Written on May 27 2025 by karina ]

In ELLE’s series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke with Paris Hilton. You may know her from the early aughts reality show The Simple Life and coining iconic phrases like “That’s hot,” but Hilton is also a mother, entrepreneur, and child’s rights advocate through her nonprofit organization, 11:11 Media Impact. While the world once watched her quit a job by saying, “Bye gorgeous,” the multi-hyphenate is now dispensing her actual best (and worst) career advice, plus the impetus behind her new skin care line, Parívie, launching May 19.

My first job
I moved to New York City as a teenager and was a model. I loved walking in all the runway shows, shooting campaigns, and meeting people like David LaChapelle and creating incredible art with him. It was just so much fun to move from LA, where I had lived this very sheltered life, to New York City to follow my dreams.

My best job
Being a mom. I’ve done and accomplished so much in my life that I’m proud of, but being a mom is the most fulfilling job that there is.

My worst job
On The Simple Life, when Nicole [Richie] and I worked at this dairy farm. It was the first job that we had when we moved to Arkansas for the show. It was really a lot. It made me never want to drink milk again. Getting the milk from cows is pretty gross, so that’s why I drink oat milk.

My dream job
An art teacher. I love art, so I think that it would be a lot of fun to teach an arts and crafts class. I guess I do already. It’s not like a school, but when the kids come over with their cousins, I’ll do art days. We’ll paint together, glue little cute things, and make collages. I just love being around kids, and I love art.

The best career advice I’ve ever gotten
My grandmother always instilled so much confidence in me and made me believe in myself. She told me to never dim my sparkle, to always go for my dreams, and to work hard. Being around her made me the woman that I am today.

The worst career advice I’ve ever gotten
My mom told me not to do The Simple Life. My parents and Nicole’s parents both told us not to do it. It was like the first reality show, so she didn’t know what to expect. Then the night after the show ran, my mom called me and said, “You know, I’m never wrong, but [I was]. The show is the most hilarious and amazing [thing] I’ve ever watched. I’m so proud of you girls.”

Why I created my own skin care brand, Parívie
I have always been obsessed with skin care. I’ve tried every single type of product. I wanted to create something that really worked, that had a whole system with incredible ingredients, perfect texture, but was also backed by science with amazing results. In my career, I’ve always been 10 steps ahead, so I wanted to put all of that into creating the skin care line of my dreams.

My wellness routine
I built a spa in my house called the Sliving Spa. I have all of the most high-end, medical-grade equipment like hyperbaric chambers, cryotherapy chambers, red light therapy beds, and Hydrafacial machines. It’s epic, and it’s all pink. Then we have Parívie all over as well. It’s a place that I love to go to relax and just get ready, because I’m constantly on and working every single day.

Source: elle.com

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Inside Paris Hilton’s At-Home Beauty Spa

[ Written on May 27 2025 by karina ]

Not too long ago, I went to a birthday party for reality-TV matriarch Kathy Hilton at her daughter Paris’s house in Beverly Hills. After a string of robberies (we’ve all seen The Bling Ring, right?), Paris had moved to a gated community on a secured ridge. As cake was being served, Paris’s sister, Nicky, asked me if I knew about the club.

I was confused; Paris had told me she’d converted extra rooms into play spaces for her two children—Phoenix, two, and London, one—with her husband, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Carter Reum, who she married in 2021. Everyone knows Paris throws a good party; Snoop Dogg performed at her 44th birthday in February, where she raged with Sydney Sweeney, Jessica Alba, and Sofia Vergara. But I didn’t think she had a disco in this house.

“No, not da club!” Nicky said, smiling. “Just wait.” As Nicky and I tiptoed to the other wing of Paris’s mansion, I heard the familiar hum of low bass that grew louder and louder as we got closer, and I could see the glow of neon lights off in the distance. But when Nicky opened the door, there wasn’t a DJ booth or bottle service. We had entered Sliving Spa, Paris’s personal professional wellness center—and the largest, most elaborate beauty spa that I ever imagined could exist in someone’s house.

For the uninitiated, sliving is Paris’s portmanteau of slaying and “living your best life.” She is the spa’s proprietor and only client. Its amenities include a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, an infrared sauna, two treatment beds, laser machines, a Pilates reformer, and a slew of other sculpting, zapping, and hydrating thingamajigs with names I couldn’t pronounce. The hum I’d heard on the way in wasn’t a bassline—it was the cryogenic chamber.

Many of the devices in Paris’s spa have been “Parisized”—which means wrapped in holographic pink metallic dressing inspired by her old Burning Man costumes. She developed the visual treatment six years ago when she customized a BMW i8, as chronicled on her YouTube channel. “Everything was, like, boring and silver, but this just makes everything look better,” Paris says when I return for a formal tour.

Paris, and her Sliving Spa, was the first thing that came to mind for my column for the Beauty issue. I have always admired how Paris puts in the work to be fabulous.

Too often, especially in L.A., if you ask people who look preternaturally gorgeous what their secret is, they’ll say something absurd, like steamed fish and hiking. Puh-lease! Paris spent big bucks on these tools, many of which I didn’t know could be purchased by individuals and some that I had never even heard of. (Several of them retail in the six figures.)

Paris also spent two and a half years on research and development in restorative, anti-aging science to create Parívie, her new skincare brand, which launches this month. (The name of the line is another portmanteau of sorts, of Paris and vie—“life” in French.)

Paris always looks incredible—and it’s refreshing to hear that it’s not just SPF and moisturizer. “This spa was a practical decision,” Paris says. She used to hopscotch all around town for treatments, facials, cryo, and IVs. After sitting in traffic on Sunset Boulevard for half a day, she decided to bring it all in-house. “I’m such a multitasker, and I love optimizing my time because I’m so busy, obviously, with everything.”

In addition to Paris’s work in media (she recently executive-produced a true-crime podcast, My Friend Daisy, about the murder of a teenage girl from Compton whose killer was discovered by TikTok sleuths) and music (she released her second album, the Sia-produced Infinite Icon, last fall), she lists off her myriad other businesses: handbags, clothing, jewelry, makeup, lingerie, kids’ clothes, dog apparel, cookware, furniture, bedding. “What else?” she ponders. “Oh, yeah. Sunglasses.” In April, she also launched Iconic, the 30th offering from her lucrative fragrance empire.

Paris has gone to the same L.A.-based facialist, Heather Nicole, for more than a decade, and she helped trick out the place.

Nowadays, while Paris is reviewing designs, approving visuals, or posting on social media, she might very well be doing it while connected to her own NeurotriS SX-4500 microcurrent machine. “This is for people who are going to space, because they can’t work out and they need to build their muscle,” she says, holding its wires in her hand, adding that NASA has similar versions. “Muscle toning, skin tightening, stimulates collagen, elastin production. I’m just laying there for hours, and this is attached to my body, and it’s toning the entire time.” It was her first purchase more than a decade ago. “I heard Madonna had two of them and traveled with one and that’s how she looked so amazing. So I was like, ‘Okay, I need that.’ And then it just bloomed into this love of machines.”

Paris comes to the spa at least once a day. If she feels puffy, she’ll pop into her CryoBuilt. “It reduces inflammation and promotes pain relief, enhances recovery, and improves skin health,” she says. “And you burn, like, hundreds of calories in two minutes.”

She has two treatment tables, so she can get facials with friends or business associates. (In 2021, Paris created her own company, 11:11 Media.) “You have the amazing LightStim and the Omnilux, which have the best LED lights for building collagen. You just lay under one and it makes [the products] go deeper into your skin.”

The spa also has a pink mini fridge, which is stocked not with soft drinks but with creams. She lets me sit in the Bodyfriend, “an insane massage chair from Korea,” and shows me her new NuEra Tight, a machine that uses radiofrequencies to reduce cellulite. (“It melts fat too.”) Her tour continues as she introduces me to other devices: the Hydrafacial, the Skin Skulpt, the Geneo X.

The pale-pink coffin-looking contraption in the corner—is that a tanning bed? “No!” she says. “Tanning beds are horrible for you and I hate them.” It’s a Neo Light red-light-therapy bed, which promotes collagen and elastin production and stimulates cellular energy.

I tell Paris that I remember tanning with her and Nicky years ago. “We all did, before spray tans,” she says. “But now we have Tan-Luxe by Paris Hilton, which is amazing because it’s clear, it smells so good, and it’s a spray you can do at home.”

We stop in front of what looks like a four-person spaceship. “This is my favorite,” Paris chirps. “The hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It increases oxygen levels in the body, it speeds up recovery and healing, and it’s an anti-aging instrument for rejuvenation. I just lay in it.” When I go inside, I find one of her kids’ Tickle Me Elmo dolls. “When I do Pilates, they’re both in here pretending like they’re in space,” she says with a shrug. “So it’s a fun kids’ toy too.”

After being famous for a quarter century, Paris trusts her own pop-culture instincts. With Parívie, that means building a brand around people like herself who are on the go and informed about ingredients and the latest beauty devices. “I developed it from the ground up: the formulations, strategy, all the packaging.” (It’s pink, obviously.) “I want to make it beautiful but also next-level with technology and science.”

The line includes a serum called That’s Tight and a cream called That’s Restored. Her favorite product is That’s Firm, which is aimed at people suffering from tech neck. “Everyone’s getting really deep lines here,” she says, gesturing toward her clavicle. “My facialist has girls who are 23 coming in, and from looking down their whole lives, they already have wrinkles.”

After our Parívie facials—I asked for two of the tech-neck creams—we reminisce about Paris’s preglam days. “I actually was a tomboy growing up, going to my family’s ranch and fishing and always being outside.”

Paris says that Kathy was a strict mother: no makeup, no dates, no school dances. “She wanted to keep us innocent for as long as possible,” she explains. “I get it. Even now, being a mom, looking at my daughter, I don’t know if I want her putting makeup on. They’re children, and they should be kids as long as you can keep them kids.”

Paris’s partner in crime in those days was, of course, her longtime friend (and Simple Life costar) Nicole Richie. “The first time I did makeup was at Nicole’s house. She’s like, ‘I learned something so cool.’ And she took some eyeliner out and did my first cat eye. My life changed in that moment.” Once she moved to New York at 15, there was no going back.

My first memory of Paris is from her 21st birthday party in London in 2002. I was studying abroad, and mutual friends introduced us. I was gobsmacked by the glamour of her appearance in a slinky, sparkly Julien Macdonald minidress and matching choker necklace. (That look was so iconic that Kendall Jenner knocked it off when she turned 21 in 2016.)

Back then, Paris didn’t know about cryo chambers or hyperbaric oxygen facials, but she was already doing the most. She reminds me that she hosted six 21st birthday parties that year; the others were in New York, Paris, Tokyo, L.A., and Las Vegas. “I’m the OG!” she says. “I always knew how to be a multitasking mogul.”

Source: harpersbazaar.com

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Paris Hilton Would Work It Out With Lindsay Lohan on a Remix

[ Written on September 22 2024 by karina ]

We hereby declare our own Paris Olympics. The gold medal for heiress in music? It’s a lock. Nearly 20 years after heating up our eardrums with her debut album, Paris, Hilton has returned with Infinite Icon, a dance-pop confection to remind listeners of her pop-star bona fides. Hilton was encouraged to re-bedazzle her musical identity by Sia, whom she crossed paths with in late 2022 when they appeared together on a Miley Cyrus television special. Hilton has been a successful DJ on the circuit for several years, but it was Sia’s pitch as a studio collaborator that ignited Hilton’s confidence for a second-album go-round. (The stars, ahem, can sometimes be blind.) “She believed in me and made me believe in myself,” says Hilton. “I’m just comfortable with her.” Megan Thee Stallion, Meghan Trainor, and Rina Sawayama also appear on Infinite Icon’s tracks, so try not to overthink things: This is meant to be a fun and hot listen to shake your ass to. Dare we say, you should be sliving with it.

You’ve said that you were encouraged to work on this album because pop music needed saving. Has the genre been underwhelming to you lately?
It was definitely sarcastic. I’ve always loved pop music. I grew up when all of the biggest pop stars were out, and the genre has been a source of so much fun for me. When I was making this album, of course I was inspired by EDM and dance music from being a DJ for so long. But I was also inspired by pop stars. Sia, for sure, was an influence, because she’s the executive producer of the album and my fairy godmother. Britney Spears is the princess of pop and always will be to me. Christina Aguilera, too. I love my girls and it shows.

Does Sia keep the wig on in the recording studio?
She definitely doesn’t keep the wig on in the studio, I’m afraid. We’ve become very close over the past year and a half. She’s a sister to me. When we’re together, we both have no hair looks and no makeup. We’re chilling in sweatsuits and socks. She took my voice to another level that I didn’t know I had in me. She makes me feel safe in the studio, and I want to be my best self with her. On my first album, I was so shy. It was hard for me to even sing in front of two producers. But with her, I encouraged, like, 20 people to come into the room while I was recording. I’ve never felt more confident.

There’s a line in the opening song, “Welcome Back,” where you sing, “You stole my voice like robbery.” I’ve found it fascinating over the years how you adapted to using two distinct voicesThis video of Hilton testifying before Congress on “troubled teen” facilities is a must-watch for Paris 101 studies. that you calibrated for comfort or character.
That voice was all part of the brand. I never used my actual voice fully, because I was holding so much in. That’s why I did the very Marilyn Monroe–type voice. I didn’t realize until recently that it came from a trauma response of what I went through as a teenager. It was building a protective shell around myself and not wanting to let people in. I didn’t want people to know who I truly was. But going through all of that was extremely healing. I’m strong and resilient. I wanted to channel that into the album. I did feel my voice was taken from me in other ways — the media wanting to portray this character that wasn’t even who I truly was. I feel now I can use my voice and tell my story through my music.

So when you compare your singing voice from 2006’s “Stars Are Blind” to “I’m Free” from this album, what are the nuances you hear that listeners may not be able to fully appreciate?
When I was recording Paris, I was in my party-girl era, but I was very timid in the studio. When I listen to “I’m Free,” I can hear a woman who has discovered who she is. That’s why I wanted to make songs that are empowering, because that’s the direct effect they had on me. I’ve been through so much in my life. I wanted to make an album for myself now and then — a lot are anthems to make you feel strong and realize your worth. “BBA”“BBA,” or “Bad Bitch Academy.” is there if you ever forget the bad bitch that you are.

Who was the most important teacher at the Paris Hilton Bad Bitch Academy?
It all leads back to my grandmother, my mom’s mom. When she walked into a room, she lit it up. She made me feel like I could be anything. I lived with her for a year in the ninth grade and we were best friends. She taught me a lot about life, how to handle yourself, and how to want to work hard. She wanted me to become successful and never have to depend on anyone. She was the ultimate, original bad bitch.

The “BBA” music video is insane in the best way possible. How much product placement is too much? There was a lot!Would you be cracking open a Poppi and SmartSweets bag at the club?
I’m the queen of branding and marketing. I invented the whole game. I’m the original influencer. I think it’s fun and camp to do that. And, seriously, they’re all brands that I really love.

Full interview: vulture.com

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From Paris with Love

[ Written on September 17 2024 by karina ]

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