I am astounded. On Aug 21, 2006 Paris Hilton said to Ann Curry, on the Today Show “I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.” Excuse me for a moment; I am still having trouble keeping my bottom lip of the floor.
I had not idea whatsoever who Paris Hilton was until 2003 when the buzz around her sex tape hit full tilt. Before then she was a “socialite hotel chain heiress who had everything”, except the full attention of the general public. Add infamous sex tape, and the girl gets instant notoriety.

Follow up that stunt with a reality show where she and her ex best friend teach America bad habits and gets away with it because it is rude to correct a bazillionaire. So now, she wants to be a role model. To whom, may I ask. Certainly not my daughter. Now I have to give her credit for making the best of a bad situation. I have to say she handled the public humiliation (if she had any at all with grace). I also have to say, the only way she will influence my child is if she joins a convent and gets intimate with a habit. One year of abstinence is not going to make me turn my daughter over to her influence.

I am not mad at Paris, however. I am mad at America, its celebrity worship culture and its apparent short memory span. “How do we tap our feet as our kids listen to her thready voiced music without picturing what everyone knows was on that sex tape? How do we let our children model after and dress like her when we know she is notorious for not wearing anything under those clothes. Why are we still even watching her on TV? Because she planned it that way… that’s why.

According to Blogcritics.org, Paris Hilton has “mapped out her "career" from the beginning… First, she was the enfant terrible of the jet set crowd: that caught the eye of the gossip columnists. After playing that role for all it was worth, she started to shed her "party girl" image to take on more serious tasks like her roles in The Simple Life and House of Wax (or whatever that movie she just made was called, it does not really matter; she can now add actress to her resume). Now she's a recording star, or about to be one, and hitting the talk show circuit to let everyone know.”