The discussion go back to the method females in the public eye were dealt with in the very first years of the 2000’s; the misogyny and the double requirements that she and her fellow popular female pals underwent. Who could forget the 2006 New York Post front page paparazzi shot of Paris, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan in a car, under the heading ‘Bimbo summit’?
We discuss the effect this had on her psychological health.
“Back then, people were not even speaking about mental health,” she advises me.
“[It] was not even on individuals’s minds to believe that we were humans with sensations, and we were simply girls maturing and finding who we were. And doing [what] any other typical woman would do – other than that our lives were being amplified by the press.
“One thing that the 2000s was about was really pitting women against each other,” she informs me as we go over the misogynistic tabloid culture surrounding reports that she and her popular pals were constantly feuding. “Back then a woman standing up for themself, a woman speaking her mind was like, ‘Oh, they’re difficult, they’re hard to deal with,’” she says.
“Any woman who I’ve seen in this industry growing up as a teenager, who would ever say anything would get persecuted for it, get so much backlash.”
Given all this and her celebration woman track record, I question if Paris ever established a dependence on alcohol or drugs? Did she ever consider herself an addict?
“No,” she says strongly. “I think I just wanted to escape, so I would just drink to not have to think about the bad things that had happened to me. And when I was out at night and just with the loud music, the clubs and the people would distract me from anything. I think when you go through something traumatic, you just want maybe to party the pain away.”
“And I’m such a shy person. A lot of people don’t realise how painfully shy I am, so it was a way where I would just not feel the shyness and awkwardness.”
Finally, her gladly ever after
There is nevertheless a happy ending to the Paris Hilton story. That enormous trick I discussed earlier? It ends up that the day prior to we satisfied in LA, on January 16, she had actually ended up being a parent for the very first time, inviting a kid, through surrogate, with her spouse, investor, Carter Reum. Yes; the day prior to we satisfied!
Dennis Gocer
