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At work last week someone asked where they could find a picture of Paris Hilton. One guy called out, “In the dictionary. Look up skank.”
Actually looking at the pictures, she is Princess Di attractive.
Years ago I was with a bunch of guys at the club on a Friday night and the guy reading the paper pointed out a photo of the not-then-dead Princess Di. He held it up and rotated it through 360 degrees and asked, “Who would even give her a second glance if she was in here tonight?”
He was right. While you wouldn’t call her ugly, she wouldn’t have made the top 40 of women in there. And you certainly wouldn’t give her a second glance.
One of my wife’s co-workers also works on Saturday Night Live, and occasionally gives scuttlebutt from backstage. The report on Paris Hilton? Lovely person to work with, in stark contrast to other actors who think the world revolves around them.
She may not be smart, she might be a spoiled over-sexed rich kid, but if she treats the people around her nicely then she’s OK in my book. This positive endorsement is the only non-stage-persona thing I know about her, so she gets a thumbs up until I hear different.
I think this is a good point. She’s not ugly/hideous in the grand scheme of things, but when she’s thrown out there in your face as supposedly being STUNNINGLY ATTRACTIVE, and then you actually see that she has a weird, pointy face and the body of a lanky 12 year old boy…sorry. My first reaction is blech.
Sure, if one of my schlub friends was dating someone that looked like her, I’d think he’d be doing ok for himself. But as far as “celebrity women” go, I can’t think of too many more I find less attractive than her.
You thought wrong. It was late and I was tired! My brain went on autopilot.
Besides, how was I to know that ANYBODY actually paid attention to anything I’d said before???
Party pooper… 
I like to laugh at stupid, not hate stupid. What’s the point?
yes. Infact I chose FuSoYa as a online handle back in 1992, back when that game was still new, and it just stuck. If you read anything on the Prodigy message boards 12 years ago with that signoff, it was probably me 
I wouldn’t say that I love her, but I do like Paris and like seeing her show up on the odd TV show or E! fashion report or whatever.
She has tons of money, she’s trashy, and she flaunts it. She’s just fun! In the same way that Anna Nicole Smith is fun, but I don’t feel sorry for Paris like I do with Anna.
I’m not THAT surprised. From watching that SNL, I got the idea she was clearly enjoying herself, learning her routines, mocking her own image- plus, I thought that Phone Sex for Geeks ad was hilarious, especially when she donned the Dr, Who regalia (and I’m sure she has never watched a moment of it).
That’s truer than you might think. Paris is the child you get when you marry a brainless trophy wife. There’s a sad lesson here.
Personally, I think the reason people love Paris Hilton is a tad more pathetic than some of the theories in here.
I think it’s because so many people have such mundane, boring lives (think 28 year old mother of 2 who works at Wal-Mart in a small town somewhere and is married to some dude who works at a paper mill), and they see someone like Paris Hilton who’s thin, not unattractive, rich, famous, fashionable(?) and has the leisure time to go party all night whenever she feels like it.
These other people want to be her, or at least want her lifestyle and the surrounding glamour. She’s a sort of fantasy made real. I have to imagine that the same mindset that is a Paris Hilton fan is the same kind of person who watched “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, “Cribs” on MTV, and who watches that “Charmed life of <insert celebrity here>” show on VH1 (or is it MTV?).
I must say, I agree with brickbacon to an extent. I don’t think Paris Hilton is extremely beautiful, but she’s hardly ugly, hideous, whatever.
My roommate’s theory on the Paris Hilton phenomena: She wants to be a fool.
In the classical sense, that is.
She knows she’s not pretty enough to be a fashion model, or a good enough actress to get good movie parts, or smart enough to do, well, anything involving real brainpower. She’s not that good a singer, or a dancer. However, she is reasonably healthy, has some cute parts, and is stinking rich, so she’s set herself out to be the next Bob Denver. Or early Steve Martin. Jerry Lewis with boobs. Danny Kaye. I’m having a real hard time coming up with female fools… Gracie Allen? The Gabors? Shirley MacLaine?
She wants to be respected for something she can do, and what that is, apparently, is to be the butt of every joke, the object of everybody’s ridicule, without actually being a bad person. In order to do that, you have to be a fool. It’s an ugly job, but apparently, she wants to do it.
“She’s very in”
I think you guys are close to the mark but not quite there.
The important thing here is that she decided to be famous and has the money to get a sufficiently good PR firm to make sure that happens. The same thing happened in the early 90s when Martha Stewart was suddenly everywhere. It was a marketing campaign to put her in the spotlight.
Once Hilton is there she can milk it for movie-star boyfriends, acting and modelling gigs, more money, and whatnot. She’s not a made person. She’ll be able to get into the right clubs and restaurants forEVER. Just like the Gabors and other B-list celebs from 30 years ago their name guarantees a certain level of access.
That’s my point. You need to seperate your feeling for her, as a person, from your appraisal of her beauty. Besides, why all the hate? Besides having (more) money, she is not unlike many NY (NYU) club kids I have met. I just don’t see the qualities that make people hate her so much.
Once again, you seem to be saying that because you hate her, not because she is actually ugly. Maybe she isn’t your cup of tea, but she is good looking. If she wasn’t Paris Hilton, but rather some girl you worked with or a famous writer, everyone would think she was good looking.
If all you guys claiming she is ugly really think that she is, please tell me who you think is attractive or post some pictures of youself or your girlfriends/wives. I would love to see them scrutinized the same way Paris Hilton is. I will bet your pictures don’t hold up nearly as well.
Sorry to hijack.
The thing I guess I’ll never understand is that she had one of the rarest opportunities there is in America; she was born wealthy enough that she could live off the interest for her entire life, party down in seven continents, and have nobody know her name who wasn’t a person like her. And then she squandered it! I once caught a little soundbite off one of those “Fabulous Life Of” shows or whatever, that was something along the lines of “What’s the point of being rich if you’re not famous?” They missed the point!
There’s all sorts of places in this country where there’s a big hedge or wall by the road. Behind the hedge people are living in unimaginable wealth - Chris Rock’s “wealthy”, not “rich”. You wouldn’t recognize their names unless it was either very old new money or the name was attatched to, say, a chain of hotels. You wouldn’t know them in the street. They can (and do, sometimes) buy and sell all those “famous” people in the tabloids. Paris Hilton gave that up on purpose, and this I don’t understand.
I don’t consider this to be very attractive.
Hot pink eyeshadow, orange skin (probably a fake tan), too heavy eyeliner, and her outfit looks like the kind of thing I thought was “cool” and “grown-up” when I was 10.
She’s not stunning. I think she’s a reasonably attractive girl-BUT-the way she dresses, the way she wears her hair, her make up, her jewelry, etc , is extremely unflattering and makes her look like a child playing dress up. She looks like someone’s Barbie doll from the eighties.