It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.
My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.
In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
I'm glad I was never an heiress.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.