PER/Fame PicturesParis Hilton insists she's not stupid—or slutty—like you may think.
She claims the "Paris Hilton" we all see in front of the cameras is just a character she's invented.
"In a way it's good, but I also don't want people thinking of me as this blond heiress…airhead," she says in Paris, Not France, a new documentary about her life, premiering Tuesday on MTV. "But that is kind of my brand. I make a lot of money by doing that."
But she acknowledges her brand will forever be tarnished by—you guessed it—the infamous sex tape with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon.
Yes, she goes there in the film…
"I always looked up to Princess Diana and all these women, and now I could never be like that," Paris says. "I want to have a family. I want to be normal. I want to be happy."
Instead, she says, she has to worry about people "thinking I'm a slut and thinking I'm something that I'm not."
But it was her her mother, Kathy, who was doing the worrying last night—about having to actually watch the documentary. "I didn't know [the sex tape] was going to be in it," she told us before seeing the film at a red carpet screening in L.A. "It's very tough...I can't believe they kept that part in there. I thought they kept that part out. It's going to be very hard for us to watch."
—Reporting by Dahvi Shira