Paris Hilton says she went through a round of IVF because Kim Kardashian — who was once her assistant — told her about it
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- Paris Hilton decided to go through in vitro fertilization because Kim Kardashian told her about it.
- Hilton told Glamour UK that Kardashian also introduced her to the idea of surrogacy.
- Hilton had her first son, Phoenix, via surrogate at 42 years old.
Paris Hilton revealed she decided to go through a round of in vitro fertilization after hearing about it from her former assistant, Kim Kardashian.
Hilton, new mother to baby Phoenix, spoke to Glamour UK about her road to motherhood in a new interview.
She said she turned to Kardashian for advice during the process and ended up having her eggs frozen in her late thirties.
"I went and did the one round of IVF because Kim had told me about it. So I had eggs frozen," she told Glamour.
But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Hilton started dating her now-husband, Carter Reum in November 2019. During the lockdown, the couple chose to begin freezing embryos instead of just eggs.
Over the course of those months, the couple froze 20 different embryos.
"Carter and I had already been talking about the future and then the world was shut down, so I was like, 'What do you think about us making embryos?' And he said, 'Yeah, let's do it.'" Hilton recalled to Glamour.
They did it seven times and yielded 20 embryos — all boys. But what the couple really wants is a baby girl.
Hilton said she just went through another round of IVF in hopes of producing a girl.
Hilton, who had her son via surrogate, said Kardashian also introduced her to the idea of surrogacy. Kardashian used a surrogate for the birth of her youngest two kids, Chicago and Psalm. She added that she's even using the same doctor as Kardashian for her surrogacies.
But her age, 42, is not the reason she's turning to surrogacy for the births, telling Glamour that even if she were only 20 she'd still opt to have children this way.
"I'm just so scared," Hilton admitted, adding: "When I was in The Simple Life, I had to be in a room when a woman was giving birth and that traumatized me as well."
She continued, "But 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."