Paris Hilton’s son was living his best “Simple Life” before he was even born.
The 42-year-old socialite-turned-business woman had her first child, son Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum, with husband Carter Reum in January via surrogate. And the hotel heiress revealed he was listening to his mom’s voice playing on “The Simple Life.”
Hilton, who kept her baby’s birth secret for a full week, said in an interview with Rolling Stone Tuesday, that her surrogate would watch episodes of her 2003 reality show so Phoenix could hear his mother’s voice.
When Hilton was told her surrogate would be delivering a full week and a half early, she donned a brunette wig to enter the hospital incognito. She wanted to keep the emotional experience of witnessing the birth between herself and her husband, she told Rolling Stone.
Hilton discussed her memoir and keeping her childbirth via surrogate a secret in an interview with Rolling Stone.Amanda Charchian/Rolling Stone
Hilton posing with a copy of “Paris: The Memoir,” out Tuesday. Amanda Charchian/Rolling Stone“It was just like, ‘Oh my God. I’m a mom,’” Hilton told the magazine about the life-changing milestone, and why she wanted to cherish it in private.
“My life has just been so public, my whole life has been, just, invaded. I felt like for my baby, I just wanted him to come into the world and just be here,” she said.
Hilton even kept her baby a secret from her mother, Kathy Hilton. She told Rolling Stone that she broke the news while presenting the matriarch with a blue Chanel bag, thinking the gift might help make up for keeping mum about baby.
“I was like, if I give her Chanel first, maybe she won’t be so upset that I didn’t tell her about this,” she said.
Hilton with husband Carter Reum.Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Hilton recalled in a previous interview she was “traumatized” after witnessing a childbirth on “The Simple Life.” 20th Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection“I was holding the baby on my shoulder with a blanket over him, and then I just sat down. She’s like, ‘What is that?’ And I was like, ‘A baby … meet your grandson,'” she told the glossy.
Hilton released her new memoir “Paris: The Memory” (Dey Street Books) Tuesday, detailing the dark side of her fame, living with undiagnosed ADHD and the shocking abuse she endured at a Utah boarding school. And she’s been vocal about her fears surrounding childbirth in the past. When she was on “The Simple Life,” she recalled in an interview with Glamour UK, witnessing childbirth “traumatized her.”
“When I was in ‘The Simple Life,’ I had to be in a room when a woman was giving birth and that traumatized me,” she told the mag in a story published last month.
“I want a family so bad,” she added in the interview. “It’s just the physical part of doing it. I’m just so scared … childbirth and death are the two things that scare me more than anything in the world.”
