***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the woman who is credited for launching what we
know as the celebrity focused ?brand? driven social media obsessed popular culture of today
comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth and shows that there is so
much more to Paris Hilton than you might believe. I was born in New York City on February 17
1981 three days after Valentine's Day. From the time I was a toddler my brain skipped and
flickered with the chemical imbalance of ADHD. Sometimes it was too much. I'm not bragging or
complaining about it just telling you: This is my brain. It has a lot to do with how this
whole book thing is going to play out because I love run-on sentences?and dashes. And sentence
fragments. I'm probably going to jump around a lot while I tell the story. I came of age during
the most turbulent pop culture period ever. The character I played?part Lucy part Marilyn?was
my steel-plated armor. People loved her. Or they loved to hate her which was just as
marketable. I leaned into that character my ticket to financial freedom and a safe place to
hide. I made sure I never had a quiet moment to figure out who I was without her. I was afraid
of that moment because I didn't know what I'd find. I wrote this book in an effort to
understand my place in a watershed moment: the technology renaissance the age of influencers.
I also wrote this book so that the world could know who I am today. I focused on key aspects of
my life that led to what I am most proud of--how my power was taken away from me and how I took
it back how I built a thriving business a marriage and a family. There are so many young
women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes I want them to
stop hating themselves for their own mistakes. I want them to laugh and cry and embrace every
aspect of who they are with fearlessness and pride. We all have our own brand of intelligence
and girl fuck fitting in.
