Just a month ago Paris Hilton she introduced the world to the baby she is going to raise after being born from a surrogate. Now that the arrival of the little one Phoenix It has filled her with happiness and has fulfilled all her maternal instincts and desires, the billionaire heiress reveals that she became pregnant when she was in her early 20s and miscarried: “I was a child and I was not ready for that.”
Paris has confessed to having an abortion just now that she has just assumed the responsibility of being a mother with her husband since 2021, Carter Reum. In an interview published in the magazine Glamourthe celebrity has explained why she has not made it public until now: “It was something that she did not want to talk about because there was a lot of shame around it.”
The influencer has kept the secret for decades, and did not feel the need to position herself and talk about her own abortion until the US Supreme Court overturned the “Roe versus Wade” case of 1973, by whose jurisprudence abortion was legal since then in the country.
“I think it’s important,” said the also actress and singer: “There’s so much politics around her and all that, but it’s a woman’s body… Why should there be a law based on that?”, she reasons publicly. Hilton argues for women’s right to decide about themselves: “It’s your body, your choice and I really believe in that. It’s amazing to me that they are making laws about what you do with your reproductive health, because if it were the other way around with the Guys, it wouldn’t be like that at all.”
Paris is mostly remembered for her role in The Simple Life, where she called herself a “dumb blonde person”. However, the actress has become an activist against institutionalized child abuse from her role in reality, because from the age of 16 to 18, the heiress to the hotel chain went through different behavior modification programs, specifically one at the Provo Canyon school in Utah, where she was sexually, physically and emotionally abused, as detailed in the documentary released in 2020 This Is Paris.
Since then and through activism, she has worked with the authorities to promote legislation in this regard, such as the “Troubled Teens” Act, known as SB127, for example, so she has used her experience and pain to help others. However, she acknowledges that the trauma still affects her daily life.
In fact, she has explained that this is the reason why she decided to have her son, Phoenix, through a surrogate, because she feared that the pregnancy would bring back all the bad memories: “I am so scared, I think, having again I’ve been back to Provo Canyon and I even relive being in a doctor’s office… all of that. The shots, the IVs they put me in…”
The influencer acknowledges that she did not want to give birth to her son due to the traumas she is carrying: “When I worked on the reality show The Simple Life, I had to be in a room when a woman was giving birth and that also traumatized me. But I want a family so badly that the problem is just the physical part of doing it. I’m so scared… childbirth and death are the two things that scare me more than anything in the world.”