New Mom, Paris Hilton Explains Why She Hid Her Baby’s Birth From Her Mom And Immediate Family
American media personality, Paris Hilton has revealed that she kept her child’s birth a secret from her immediate family until he was born and she had to gift her mother Kathy Hilton a blue Chanel purse while announcing the arrival of her newborn son Phoenix Barron.
Late in January, the 40-year-old businesswoman, singer and actress announced that she and her businessman husband, Carter Reum had welcomed a baby boy via a surrogate.
The couple kept both their immediate families in the dark until Paris was on the verge of breaking the news on Instagram.
Now in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Paris revealed that she gave Kathy a designer handbag and then handed her her grandson for the first time.
“I was like, if I give her Chanel first, maybe she won’t be so upset that I didn’t tell her about this,”
Paris confessed to the magazine.
The moment Kathy met Phoenix for the first time was captured on reality TV cameras for the Peacock series Paris In Love. Paris described the scene:
”I was holding the baby on my shoulder with a blanket over him, and then I just sat down.”
Paris said her mother was like:
‘What is that?’ And I was like: ‘A baby…meet your grandson.’ She’s like: ‘Is this yours?’ And she starts crying. She’s like: ‘Let me hold him. He’s the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen in my life. Oh, he’s so beautiful.’ She was just in tears.”
Recently she explained why she and Carter hid the baby’s birth from even their immediate families until right before she made the Instagram announcement. She told Harper’s Bazaar:
“My entire life has been so public. I’ve never had anything for myself. We decided that we wanted to have this whole experience to ourselves.”
She said of her son:
“I want to protect him and to be with him every second. You have this mother instinct that kicks in, which I’ve never had before.”
On a recent episode of her podcast This Is Paris, she disclosed that Phoenix was “like over a week old” before she told her mother Kathy and her sister Nicky about his birth. She added:
“When I introduced my mom to our baby boy, it was amazing to see the look on her face, she was so surprised. Just the look on her face, it was just priceless.”
In her new book titled simply Paris: The Memoir, Hilton shared her complicated story in her own words. The memoir sees Hilton reveal the deeper stories behind some of the most talked-about moments in her life —that sex tape, for instance—and discuss issues like her struggles with ADHD and her painful time at Provo Canyon School.