Paris Hilton doesn’t want son to pursue career in showbiz

The 42-year-old star—who’s a mother to a two month-old baby boy called Phoenix —says that she’d prefer her sonto pursue a different kind of career

Socialite Paris Hilton doesn’t want her son to be “in the spotlight.” The 42-year-old star — who’s a mother to a two-monthold baby boy called Phoenix — says that she’d prefer her son to pursue a different kind of career, reports aceshowbiz.com. “I’m never going to stop my son from doing what he wants to do in life. I’m just hoping he doesn’t want to be in the spotlight,” she told The Independent. Paris enjoyed huge success during her own career, but the “Stars Are Blind” hitmaker insists she doesn’t take herself or her public persona too seriously.

She explained, “I can laugh at myself and have fun with the character and play into it. I didn’t mind doing that. I feel like that’s just a part of me —that character. It’s the fun, playful side. But now everyone realises that I’m not a dumb blonde, I’m just very good at pretending to be one.”

Paris created her persona during her teens, and it’s helped her to deal with criticism over the years. The heiress shared, “I’d say to myself, ‘They’re not talking about you, they’re talking about the character.’ It’d make it hurt less.” Earlier this month, Paris revealed that she’s loving her experience of motherhood. The reality star and her husband Carter Reum welcomed their first child in January via surrogate, and Paris revealed that she’s relished the challenge so far. She said, “My favourite moments are when he’s just laying on my chest and he’s looking into my eyes and my heart just melts and I just feel that this is just the most magical time in my life.”

Paris has also enjoyed sharing her story with fans through “Paris: The Memoir”. She said, “This has just been the most therapeutic experience of my life, puting it all out there. (There are) just so many emotions and just so many experiences that I endured and tried to forget, but writing them all out and puting them out there has just made me feel just really incredible.”

Paris said that her on-screen persona was a “trauma response” and a way to deal with the pressures in her life. The TV personality, 42, was catapulted to fame in the early noughties in show “The Simple Life,” where she and pal Nicole Richie swapped their lavish lifestyles for humble homes, reports Mirror.co.uk. However, the person she was while the cameras rolled and on the red carpet was a “mask”, the star said as she appeared on “The One Show.”

The TV star added, “I think that what I went through it was a trauma response where I created this character, this Barbie doll fantasy life so I didn’t have to think about what I went through, and then I got “The Simple Life,” and then I had to continue playing that character season ater season and then almost got stuck in it because I got so used to doing it. It was sort of a mask to deal with all of the pressures.”