Paris Hilton, the American heiress and TV show star targeted by animal rights activists for wearing fur, has given up wearing pelts, she says in the latest edition of a Hong Kong lifestyle magazine.
Twenty-five-year-old Hilton said she underwent a conversion after meeting Heather Mills, the vegetarian ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney.
"I am not going to be wearing fur anymore," Hilton told the June edition of Prestige magazine.
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"I met up with (Mills) and she showed me videos of how badly the animals are treated," she added. "It is just disgusting. I am an animal lover."
Hilton was bombarded with flour earlier this year by activist members of pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) after she appeared on the London Fashion Week catwalk clad in fur.
Hilton's admission came in an interview in which she also revealed she is about to release her debut single, a reggae track that will be titled Stars Are Blind. The single's release is soon to be followed by an album and a tour.
"The whole album has so much different music on it," she said. Hilton told the magazine that she has written the lyrics to "like, seven of my songs."
The album will also include a cover of Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy.
The world can expect to see a lot more Hilton in the near future, with a fifth season of her TV show The Simple Life planned, as well as the launch of a new fragrance and a fashion line bearing her name.
(AFP)
美國財團繼承人暨電視明星芭黎絲.希爾頓因穿戴皮草成為動物保育人士攻擊的目標,她接受香港最新一期時尚生活雜誌訪問時說,自己已經放棄皮草了。
二十五歲的希爾頓表示,她與奉行素食主義的前披頭四成員保羅麥卡尼的前妻海瑟.邁爾斯見面後,就徹底改變。
希爾頓告訴六月號的Prestige雜誌:「我不再穿皮草了。」
「我與邁爾斯見面,她讓我觀看動物是如何被殘忍對待的錄影帶,」她說:「實在讓人作嘔。我一向喜歡動物。」
希爾頓在倫敦時尚週伸展台上以皮草現身後,今年初遭到壓力團體「人道對待動物組織」(PETA) 成員以麵粉攻擊。
希爾頓這段訪問的自白也透露自己即將發行首支雷鬼風的單曲「Stars Are Blind」。單曲推出後很快會有專輯問世與巡迴表演。
她說:「整張專輯的音樂曲風多元。」她告訴雜誌她也自己撰寫歌詞,「大約有七首。」
這張專輯也包括了翻唱自洛史都華的「Do You Think I'm Sexy」。
在不久的將來,全世界將看到希爾頓強烈曝光,她第五季的電視節目《簡單生活》即將登場,以她為名的新款香水及一系列流行服飾也將問市。
(法新社/翻譯:賴美君)
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