As soon as Paris Hilton recently disclosed her plans to start a family with boyfriend Carter Reum using IVF, she was inundated with criticism. Although celebrities are usually lauded for coming out about their infertility treatments, Paris Hilton’s IVF announcement was harshly criticised. Here’s why:
The couple underwent invitro fertilization with Kim Kardashian’s IVF doctor.
“We have been doing the IVF so I can pick twins if I like,” Hilton told The Trend Reporter host Mara Schiavocampo while on her podcast. “Kim is actually the one who told me about that—I didn’t know anything about it. I am happy she told me that advice and introduced me to her doctor.”
“I really want twins who are a boy and a girl,” she said. “So, this is the only way to 100% get that.”
Hilton said that she undertook IVF because to ensure she can have twins—a boy and a girl and many women found that offensive.
Was Ms. Hilton misunderstood?
However, Paris Hilton’s IVF was not exactly a choice treatment. She had frozen her eggs a couple of years ago on the recommendation of Kim Kardashian, and now to use her eggs, IVF was inevitable.
“She introduced me to her doctor, and I was so inspired by her to actually do it,” she said in an interview with The Times. “I think every woman should do it because you can really control it and not have that, ‘Oh my God, I need to get married.’”
She’d also said in the interview that she wants to have a little girl, as she’s “obsessed with dressing them up and having a mini-me,” adding that twins are also on her mind because “then you get both [girl and boy] at once.”
Once you have decided to harvest and freeze your eggs, they can only be fertilized via the IVF procedure. To further undergo chromosomal selection via PGT, is an option, which you may or may not to utilize.
Hilton: excited for the next step of life
“I am really excited just to move on to the next step of my life and finally just have a real life because I really do believe that having a family and having children is the meaning of life,” Hilton, 39, said during her interview.
“I haven’t gotten to experience that yet because I don’t feel that anyone really deserved that love from me and now, I finally found the person who does. So, I cannot wait for that next step.”
The ‘Simple Life’ star said she and partner Carter hope to have “three or four children” together. She already got through the first two steps of the IVF procedure —stimulation and egg retrieval, when she decided to have her eggs frozen. Hilton said the process was made easier by her supportive partner.
“It was tough. I knew it would be worth it. I did it a couple of times,” she said. “Just doing it together and having a partner that is just so supportive and makes me feel just like a princess all the time. He is just so caring and just so amazing—it wasn’t that bad.”
Hilton and Reum
Hilton has known family friend, Carter Reum, for a long time and they started dating after having met in the Hamptons at a Thanksgiving party organized by Reum’s sister. That’s where she saw a softer side to him, while the two sparked a great chemistry.
“I just saw how sweet he was with his mom and we were talking more and I just felt like this really amazing connection,” she said. “We have literally been inseparable ever since.”
The Hilton heiress got married to entrepreneur Carter Reum in November 2021 at a private estate in Los Angeles.
She feels Reum is her “dream guy” and that she’s “100 percent” certain he is the one.
In December 2020, Paris Hilton and Cater Reum celebrated their 1-year anniversary, which the media personality announced by posting a sweet tribute to her beau on her Instagram.
The post was a video montage of the two set to her 2006 track ‘Heartbeat.’ It seems she is totally smitten and really happy.
“I have never felt so close to another person in my life. And that’s because you’re the first one who tore down the walls I built around my heart and opened up my heart in a way that I didn’t know was possible,” she wrote.
“I truly believe that we were custom-made for each other and meant to be. Nothing in my life has ever felt so right or so perfect!”
Paris Hilton children
Hilton featured on an episode of the LadyGang podcast and again spoke about her desire to have twins—a boy and a girl. She’d even picked out the name ‘London’ for the girl baby.
However, when the time came, the couple did not have twins.
Almost a year after their wedding, the couple welcomed a baby boy—Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum, who was born via surrogacy on Jan 16, 2023.
In an interview with People Magazine, Hilton talked about the most surprising thing about motherhood.
“It’s just how much love I could have for someone,” she said. “I thought I knew what love was with my husband, but as soon as I met my baby, it’s just this love on another level. He has just changed my life in every way.”
Within 11 months, in November 2023, the couple added a baby girl to their family, also with the help of a surrogate. They named her London Marilyn Hilton Reum.
Hilton had picked out the names of her children years ago and she’d talked about them in several interviews.
Paris Hilton’s surrogacy decision
“Surrogacy was a difficult decision to make,” she said. “I would have loved that experience of growing the baby in your tummy and feeling the kicks and all of those exciting moments, but my life has just been so public. So even though the baby is biologically mine and Carter’s, we decided to have a surrogate carry him.”
The reality star also said that her decision was also motivated by the sexual abuse she experienced in her teens. The past trauma made her afraid of medical examination.
“I’m just so scared. I think, again, leading back to Provo of even being in a doctor’s office, just all of that. The shots, the IVs that they put in,” she said.
“I want a family so bad, it’s just the physical part of doing it. I’m just so scared … childbirth and death are the two things that scare me more than anything in the world.”
Since both her kids were born via surrogacy, Hilton managed to keep it a secret—not telling even her mother and sister about expecting a baby. She just introduced her family to her son, a week after he was born.
For her daughter, she just brought her in after her husband told everyone that they have a surprise, during their Thanksgiving dinner.
The family thought it must be a magician and “everyone’s so excited and then I just walk in carrying a pink blanket with the baby and everybody is sitting there like, ‘What?!’”
Hilton says she’s now in a very happy, contented space. “Phoenix and London are everything to me, and I feel like the luckiest woman in the world to be married to the love of my life and have our beautiful family,” she said. “We make the absolute best team, and my life finally feels complete.”