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Paris: The Memoir bonus chapter by Paris Hilton

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5.0
I read celebrity memoirs because I love juicy gossip, and this didn't disappoint, but I also learned a lot about Paris- but more importantly, the troubled-teen industry. This was heartbreaking and very well done. Paris is a way better person than me cause I would have NEVER forgiven my parents for sending me to that place. 
TW for physical and mental abuse, forced institutionalization, SA, sexual harassment, and rape
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4.0
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Fascinating memoir, both providing the horrific trauma that she has undergone throughout her life and truly giving a new perspective on the famous pop culture celebrity. Other than her own life, she makes important remarks about the society we live in, especially the view of young women and people with ADHD.
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
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Maybe my expectations were set low, maybe the book really is just THAT good. Either way, this was well written and surprisingly easy to follow even with the jumps between moments on Paris’s life timeline. 
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4.25
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4.25
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Paris is my new Roman Empire. What an intelligent, resilient, remarkable person. The hardships she has faced are so unique to her situation, but not at all to what women face daily. She takes her life with such gratefulness and rules her own destiny. I'm off to watch her doc on youtube now haha! 
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4.0
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I'm truly shocked that Paris Hilton produced such a down to Earth and human-feeling memoir. Parts of this book were wild. While I knew that a large part of this memoir centred around Hilton's experience in the "troubled teen" industry and how that has led her to become an activist fighting to protect youth from this industry.

Hilton's voice feels natural and honest throughout the book and truly a 180 from her early 2000s persona. I appreciated her openness and reminders that forgiving people is sometimes best, even if it's just for our own sakes. Her reflection on her life, from her early years, into her party years of the early and mid 2000s and to her current life as a wife and DJ (what a wild twist honestly). This was a solid and honestly really fun read.

 
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I am among the millions of people who have condemned and written off Paris Hilton, and for that, I am sorry. Hilton’s reflections on the broader treatment of female celebrities are painfully accurate, and the personal stories she shares are deeply disturbing at times.  The middle third or so of this book is especially difficult to read as she describes being called stupid as she struggled in school with undiagnosed ADD, was roofied and raped, and then was emotionally, physically, and sexually abused for nearly two years in a center for troubled teens that was in fact overseen by a cult leader, murderer, and rapist. Her private sexual tape was released against her will, Playboy acquired and published photos of her without her permission, and a man once acquired medical records of her abortion to use as black mail. Hilton admits that she did many things she is not proud of us a young person and that her Simple Life character became a bit of a safety blanket so people couldn’t get at the real her, but considering what she went through, I’m happy she just survived. 

The world wanted to devour Hilton, and instead she found a way to feed off it herself.  If other people were going to make money off of her photos, her presence, her stories, why shouldn’t she be able to profit off of those things herself? Other people wanted to control her story, so instead she put her own out there as loudly as possible in ways the world hadn’t  seen before. Why do we love to obsess over female celebrities and then condemn them when they take advantage of that attention? As Hilton pints out, the way society treats its “It Girls” reflects on what we think of women overall, and it ain’t pretty. I’ll happily consider myself a Paris Hilton fan from here on out.
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