The first name Paris seems to oblige. In any case, Paris Hilton has decided to look for the names of her children on the map as well. First of all, she only has one son. But it’s called like a US metropolis, as Hilton now divulges.
Paris Hilton and Carter Reum have been parents to a boy for a few weeks. The entrepreneur has now shared her son’s name with the public. But not just like that. Rather, in the current episode of her podcast “This Is Paris”, the 42-year-old reads an excerpt from her book “Paris: The Memoir”, which will be published in March, in which she discusses the choice of a name for her son.
The boy’s name is therefore Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum. She chose the name Phoenix years ago, says Hilton. At that time she looked for cities, countries and states on a map that would match her own name Paris and London. Should she have another daughter, then she should be named like the British capital. Her son Phoenix, in turn, now has the same name as the capital of the US state of Arizona.
Hilton wasn’t just smitten by the pop culture significance of the name Phoenix. She was also inspired by the mythological story of the phoenix rising from the ashes, she explains. He stands for “hope, rebirth and transformation,” says Hilton. She wanted her son to “grow up knowing that defeat and triumph come and go in our lives. And that this should give us great hope for the future. Carter and I are so proud to welcome our son into the world .”
Her son’s middle name is a tribute to her grandfather Barron Hilton, Hilton reveals in her podcast. “He was always my mentor and I looked up to my grandfather so much,” she says. “We were so close and I miss him every day so I really wanted to honor him by having his name in my first son’s name.”
Paris Hilton and entrepreneur Carter Reum have been a couple since 2019. They got married in November 2021. A few weeks ago, they proudly announced that their first child together was born, carried by a surrogate mother. “I want to protect him and be with him every second,” Hilton gushed about her son in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “You have this maternal instinct kicking in that I’ve never had before. I feel complete now.”
The couple kept their pregnancy a secret for a long time. Wearing a brunette wig, hoodie and under a false name, Hilton visited the hospital on the day her son was born, as she further divulged in the interview. “We decided we wanted this whole experience to ourselves.” So the couple locked themselves with their offspring for two days in their house in Beverly Hills and enjoyed the time together. Even the closest family members only found out about the birth shortly before the announcement on Instagram.