Paris Hilton has revealed shocking details about Playboy magazine publisher Hugh Hefner’s photo being used on the magazine’s cover without her consent.
42-year-old Hilton spoke about how she felt when she saw herself on the cover of Playboy magazine in 2005.
In his recently published autobiography, Paris: Memoir, The reality star and businesswoman has revealed how she landed a magazine cover photo despite turning down a seven-figure offer from the magazine’s late founder and editor-in-chief.
“Hef really wanted me to cover Playboy,” Hilton recalled. “He kept offering me more money, telling me I didn’t have to be completely naked, just topless. Then he told me I didn’t have to be topless, just transparent. Then he said I could wear whatever underwear I wanted.
“Even when he offered seven figures, I turned it down because I knew my mum would freak out and I’d been called an abuser after the s**t tape,” he continued. “I felt like the Playboy picture cemented that in people’s minds.”
However, her mother Kathy Hilton, who was approached by the magazine as a teenager, advised her daughter not to work for the magazine because she thought being a Playboy model was “so rubbish”.
But Hilton’s photo came four years later, when he was at Carl’s Jr. appeared on the cover shortly after appearing in a Super Bowl ad for the burger chain, which she writes was “later banned from television for being too sexual”.
“Nobody was too surprised to see me on the cover of Playboy,” she wrote. “Except me. I’m surprised. And not in a good way.”
“Hef ‘honored’ me with the S** Star of the Year award, which means they can say it’s ‘news’ and not a picture,” Hilton explained.
“She’s from an old test shoot with a really cool female photographer. It’s got an old-school pinup girl vibe: red bra and heels, black fishnets, very little real skin—nothing sexier than Carl’s picture. Small shot.” he noted.
“I think it sold well because people expected to see me naked in a magazine,” she continued. “Surprise, suckers. They don’t have anything. Like me.”
