Paris tells girls how to harness inner heiress
The 23-year-old dishes out her pearls of wisdom in a 178-page book, Confessions of an Heiress, which is more scrapbook than memoir, with more pictures than paragraphs.
“It’s just a look inside my life,” says the hotel fortune heiress, who suggests a trip to St Tropez in the south of France to beat the blues.
“It’s kind of like a girls’ guide. It’s pretty interesting. It was hard, but a really fun project,” Hilton said.
Setting herself up as a jet-set role model might strike some as the height of chutzpah. But America worships a different kind of celebrity these days.
“In the old days, you were a celebrity because you were good at something,” says Robert Thompson, media and popular culture professor at Syracuse University, of Hilton, who went from the gossip pages to TV stardom with the series The Simple Life, after her sex-capade.
“There is a whole new subset of celebrities who are being created essentially for the sake of being famous. For someone known for being a beautiful party girl, a video like that is like a promotional device. It did wonders for that series.”
Hilton is hot property and she’s playing it to the hilt. Besides her book, she has launched a jewellery line, and applied to trademark her name. She plans to put the Paris Hilton brand on clothes, perfumes, makeup and shoes.
And that’s not all. The slender blonde is recording a pop-rock album, acting in a remake of the horror classic, House of Wax, and a National Lampoon comedy, Pledge This!
“It’s about taking charge and branding yourself,” Hilton said. “We’re living in a moment when having a career, especially a glamorous one, is very sexy.”
Born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, Hilton does not ignore the less fortunate in her ‘memoir’.
“People act differently toward you when you’ve got jewellery on your head,” she notes. “Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. I do.”
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