Paris Hilton revealed she had an abortion when she was in her early 20s because she ‘was a kid and was not ready’ for a baby.

The 42-year-old has just become a mother, having announced this January that she and her husband Carter Reum welcomed their son Phoenix via surrogate.

She has been assiduously private about her newborn, waiting until this week to disclose his name and post pictures of his face to social media.

In a new interview she confessed she was also reticent to go public with the fact that she once terminated a pregnancy.

‘This was also something that I didn’t want to talk about because there was so much shame around that,’ she told Glamour UK.

Throwback: Paris Hilton revealed she had an abortion in her early 20s as she ‘was a kid and was not ready’ for a baby; pictured at her 21st birthday party in London in 2002

Rising starlet: Paris is pictured aged 20 posing up at the iconic Hotel du Cap in the South Of France while attending the 2001 Cannes Film Festival

Her beaus in her early 20s included model Jason Shaw, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, Greek shipping heirs Stavros Niarchos and Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter – and Rick Salomon, her co-star in her infamous sex tape.

She feels her abortion is ‘important’ to discuss now in light of last year’s Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark 1973 decision Roe v Wade, which had guaranteed abortion rights nationwide for nearly half a century.

The power to set abortion law has reverted to the states, many of which have passed various limits and restrictions on the procedure.

‘There’s just so much politics around it and all that, but it’s a woman’s body… Why should there be a law based on that?’ Paris wondered.

‘It’s your body, your choice and I really believe in that. It’s mind-boggling to me that they’re making laws about what you do with your reproductive health, because if it were the other way around with the guys, it would not be this way at all.’

During the interview she laid bare the dark side of her past, revealing she was drugged and raped when she was just 15.

While living with her grandmother in Palm Springs, she recalled, she and her friends visited the Century City mall ‘almost every weekend’ for fun.

‘That was our favorite thing to do and these [older] guys would always just be hanging around the stores,’ Paris shared with the magazine, adding that ‘we’d talk to them, give them our beeper numbers.’

Candor: ‘This was also something that I didn’t want to talk about because there was so much shame around that,’ she told Glamour UK of her abortion

Baby mine: The 42-year-old has just become a mother, having announced this January that she and her husband Carter Reum welcomed their son Phoenix via surrogate

She recounted the story of how ‘one day, they invited us to their house and we’re drinking these berry wine coolers.’

One of her hosts was especially insistent that she drink up, and when she did so she began to sense that the beverage had been spiked.

‘I didn’t drink or anything back then, but then when I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what he put in there, I’m assuming it was a roofie.’

Although she only came to hours later, she ‘remembered’ what happened while she was drugged and still has ‘visions of him on top of me, covering my mouth, being like: “You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming,” and whispering that in my ear.’

Paris is now in a much happier phase of her life, embracing new parenthood and marital bliss with Carter, whom she married in 2021.

She dished that during the coronavirus lockdowns she underwent in vitro fertilization seven times so she and Carter could expand their family.

They now have 20 embryos, ‘all boys,’ but they want to eventually have a daughter as well, and as a result Paris ‘went through the process again a month ago, so I’m waiting for the results to see if there’s any girls.’

Recently she divulged that she and Carter hid the baby’s birth from even their immediate families until right before she broke the news on social media.

Milestone: Paris recently revealed that she hid her baby’s birth from even her family until right before she broke the news on social media (pictured)

Resemblance: Her decision was notable considering how close she is to her family, particularly her sister Nicky Hilton Rothschild (right) and her mother Kathy Hilton (center); seen in 2021

‘My entire life has been so public,’ she told Harper’s Bazaar. ‘I’ve never had anything for myself. We decided that we wanted to have this whole experience to ourselves.’

While the surrogate was in labor, Paris was so determined to protect her privacy that she even went to the trouble of disguising herself with a brunette wig and checking into the hospital under an alias.

Her decision was especially notable considering how close she is to her family, particularly her sister Nicky Hilton Rothschild and her mother Kathy Hilton.

However tension flared up between mother and daughter in November when Kathy let slip to E! News that IVF had been a ‘struggle’ for Paris.

‘I don’t know where she got that,’ Paris shot back in a TMZ interview the following day. ‘It’s never been a struggle at all.’

When Paris announced the arrival of her firstborn child, all she said was ‘You are already loved beyond words,’ on a photo of the baby’s hand holding Paris’s finger.

On a new episode of her podcast This Is Paris, she spilled that Phoenix was ‘like over a week old’ before she told Kathy and Nicky about his birth.

‘When I introduced my mom to our baby boy, it was amazing to see the look on her face, she was so surprised,’ said Paris. ‘Just the look on her face, it was just priceless.’

Parents: During the coronavirus lockdowns she underwent in vitro fertilization seven times so she and Carter could expand their family; the pair are pictured at the Grammys this month