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 a secret for a full week after he was born, said in an interview with Rolling Stone Tuesday, that her surrogate would watch episodes of her 2003 reality show so he could hear her mother’s voice.
When Hilton was told her surrogate would be delivering a full week and a half and a half early, she put on a brunette wig disguise and headed to the hospital to witness the birth of their child, an emotional experience and one she wanted to keep between her and her husband, she told 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 news a secret from her mother, Kathy Hilton. She told Rolling Stone that she broke the news by presenting the matriarch with a blue Chanel bag thinking it would make up for the massive secret she kept.
“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.
“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 sounding childbirth in the past. When she was on “The Simple Life,” she recalled in an interview with Glamour UK, witnessing child birth and that it “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 Glamour UK in a story published last month.
“I want a family so bad,” she told Glamour UK. “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.”