Good day, Phoenix! The first complete pictures of Paris Hilton and Carter Reum’s son, Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum, have been released, over a month after Paris Hilton announced the birth of her baby. Baby Phoenix can be seen in the adorable pictures with a simple white romper embroidered with his initials and a matching hat. The pleased mother and father are included in a few of the pictures that Hilton, 42, also shared on Instagram with the statement “Our whole complete universe.”
Phoenix was born via surrogate on 24 January, according to Hilton and Reum, who wed in 2021. The former told People that her son was the realization of her dream to be a mother. She gushed, “Our hearts are bursting with love for our baby boy and we are so delighted to start our family together.”
In an episode of her podcast “This Is Paris,” Hilton, who had kept her child’s upcoming birth a secret even from her family, revealed Phoenix’s name earlier this week. The heiress claimed that while she had long before decided on a girl’s name (London), it was more difficult to choose a nickname for a boy. I firmly think that names have meaning, thus we sought out a name for our son.
Phoenix has a few good pop culture reference points, but more important, it’s the bird that flames out and then rises from the ashes to fly again,” she said. “I want my son to grow up knowing that disaster and triumph go around and come around throughout our lives, and that this should give us great hope for the future, even when the past is painful and the present seems to have fallen to sh*t.”
While Hilton kept Phoenix’s name from the public for some time, at least one of her celebrity pals knew the moniker: Ellen DeGeneres. DeGeneres guessed Phoenix as a potential baby name for Hilton in January 2022 when the star appeared on her former talk show. Wrote DeGeneres on Instagram, “I named @ParisHilton’s baby! What do I win?!?! A hotel?!?!”
