This is Paris, and she’s not the California-fry vapid girl you thought she was
The heiress suffered unimaginable trauma as a child and is now using her fluffy pink platform to highlight abuse
08 October 2020 - 19:15
There is something painfully anachronistic about Paris Hilton. It makes sense that it should be so; she was, after all, the poster girl for the early 2000s — white, emaciated, bleach-blonde and California-fry vapid. Since her erstwhile assistant Kim Kardashian usurped her place in the pantheon of celebrity, Hilton — and her bedazzled, velveteen, butterfly-saccharine aesthetic — has aged out of the spotlight, no doubt partly because her signature style and persona has not evolved much since the height of her renown...
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