Photo: Chelsea Lauren/ShutterstockAlthoughParis Hiltonhas moved onto “sliving,” her name will always be synonymous with “That’s hot.“But in her new bookParis: The Memoir, the 42-year-old heiress reveals she actually first heard the phrase from her younger sisterNicky Hiltonin middle school.“At some point, I heard Nicky say ‘That’s hot,’ and it resonated with me,” the"Stars Are Blind"singer writes. “I wrote it in my diary and doodled flowers and fireworks around it. It’s such a great statement, isn’t it? Positive. Unpretentious. The wordhotis evocative; there’s energy in it.“Hilton saw “That’s hot” as “a little positive affirmation.““Suddenly there seemed to be a lot of things in my world that deserved this little accolade, and I recorded them faithfully in my diary,” she writes. “Mom got me markers with glitter in them.That’s hot. We learned how to diagram sentences.That’s hot.Nicole [Richie]is sleeping over the whole weekend.That’s hot.“Paris Hilton’s book.Dey Street BooksBefore Hilton took the phrase global, it caught on at her school.“Pretty soon all the kids in my class were saying, ‘That’s hot,'” the mom ofnewborn son Phoenixwrites. “Like I made ‘fetch’ happen!“After season 2 ofThe Simple Life,Hilton decided to trademark “That’s hot.““I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it; I only knew I didn’t want anyone else to get there first,” the businesswoman writes.RELATED VIDEO: Paris Hilton Reveals Mom Kathy Hilton Didn’t Know About Son Phoenix Until He Was ‘Over a Week Old’In recent years, Hilton transitioned to using “sliving” in place of “That’s hot.““Slivingis a word I invented a few years ago at a Halloween party. I started to say ‘slaying’ but took a sharp left toward ‘living your best life,’ and ‘sliving’ came out,” she explains inParis. “We all died laughing, but I was thinking,That’s a great word. Ima trademark that s— like yesterday.“TheHouse of Waxactress admits she might have been “slightly tipsy” when she made that decision.Still, she writes, “It is a great word! It’s a movement and a lifestyle.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Paris: The Memoiris out now.
Photo: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
AlthoughParis Hiltonhas moved onto “sliving,” her name will always be synonymous with “That’s hot.“But in her new bookParis: The Memoir, the 42-year-old heiress reveals she actually first heard the phrase from her younger sisterNicky Hiltonin middle school.“At some point, I heard Nicky say ‘That’s hot,’ and it resonated with me,” the"Stars Are Blind"singer writes. “I wrote it in my diary and doodled flowers and fireworks around it. It’s such a great statement, isn’t it? Positive. Unpretentious. The wordhotis evocative; there’s energy in it.“Hilton saw “That’s hot” as “a little positive affirmation.““Suddenly there seemed to be a lot of things in my world that deserved this little accolade, and I recorded them faithfully in my diary,” she writes. “Mom got me markers with glitter in them.That’s hot. We learned how to diagram sentences.That’s hot.Nicole [Richie]is sleeping over the whole weekend.That’s hot.“Paris Hilton’s book.Dey Street BooksBefore Hilton took the phrase global, it caught on at her school.“Pretty soon all the kids in my class were saying, ‘That’s hot,'” the mom ofnewborn son Phoenixwrites. “Like I made ‘fetch’ happen!“After season 2 ofThe Simple Life,Hilton decided to trademark “That’s hot.““I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it; I only knew I didn’t want anyone else to get there first,” the businesswoman writes.RELATED VIDEO: Paris Hilton Reveals Mom Kathy Hilton Didn’t Know About Son Phoenix Until He Was ‘Over a Week Old’In recent years, Hilton transitioned to using “sliving” in place of “That’s hot.““Slivingis a word I invented a few years ago at a Halloween party. I started to say ‘slaying’ but took a sharp left toward ‘living your best life,’ and ‘sliving’ came out,” she explains inParis. “We all died laughing, but I was thinking,That’s a great word. Ima trademark that s— like yesterday.“TheHouse of Waxactress admits she might have been “slightly tipsy” when she made that decision.Still, she writes, “It is a great word! It’s a movement and a lifestyle.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Paris: The Memoiris out now.
AlthoughParis Hiltonhas moved onto “sliving,” her name will always be synonymous with “That’s hot.”
But in her new bookParis: The Memoir, the 42-year-old heiress reveals she actually first heard the phrase from her younger sisterNicky Hiltonin middle school.
“At some point, I heard Nicky say ‘That’s hot,’ and it resonated with me,” the"Stars Are Blind"singer writes. “I wrote it in my diary and doodled flowers and fireworks around it. It’s such a great statement, isn’t it? Positive. Unpretentious. The wordhotis evocative; there’s energy in it.”
Hilton saw “That’s hot” as “a little positive affirmation.”
“Suddenly there seemed to be a lot of things in my world that deserved this little accolade, and I recorded them faithfully in my diary,” she writes. “Mom got me markers with glitter in them.That’s hot. We learned how to diagram sentences.That’s hot.Nicole [Richie]is sleeping over the whole weekend.That’s hot.”
Paris Hilton’s book.Dey Street Books
Before Hilton took the phrase global, it caught on at her school.
“Pretty soon all the kids in my class were saying, ‘That’s hot,'” the mom ofnewborn son Phoenixwrites. “Like I made ‘fetch’ happen!”
After season 2 ofThe Simple Life,Hilton decided to trademark “That’s hot.”
“I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it; I only knew I didn’t want anyone else to get there first,” the businesswoman writes.
RELATED VIDEO: Paris Hilton Reveals Mom Kathy Hilton Didn’t Know About Son Phoenix Until He Was ‘Over a Week Old’
In recent years, Hilton transitioned to using “sliving” in place of “That’s hot.”
“Slivingis a word I invented a few years ago at a Halloween party. I started to say ‘slaying’ but took a sharp left toward ‘living your best life,’ and ‘sliving’ came out,” she explains inParis. “We all died laughing, but I was thinking,That’s a great word. Ima trademark that s— like yesterday.”
TheHouse of Waxactress admits she might have been “slightly tipsy” when she made that decision.
Still, she writes, “It is a great word! It’s a movement and a lifestyle.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Paris: The Memoiris out now.
source: people.com
