Kathy Hilton Tearfully Recalls Paris Hilton Surprising Her With The News Of Her First Grandchild: “My First Baby Having Her First Baby”

Kathy Hilton is one proud (and emotional) mother and grandmother!

While stopping by The Jennifer Hudson Show this morning with her daughter Paris Hilton, Kathy tearfully recalled the experience of first being introduced to her grandson, Phoenix, deeming it “so beautiful,” per People.

She noted that she was “really surprised” by the news, claiming that “Paris is always surprising, I think, all of us.” Amid the tears, Kathy clarified that “it’s a happy time,” reiterating that she “couldn’t believe it.”

“When she came out, she had these other gifts for me because it had just been, I think, Valentine’s [Day] or Christmas,” she remembered. “And she’d been working so she came out, and my husband had just lost his dog that was like our child. So I thought it’s either a new puppy or a monkey.”

According to People, Paris and her husband Carter Reum had both their son Phoenix (1), and daughter London (10 weeks) in 2023 through a surrogate.

Kathy also revealed “Kiki” to be her grandmother nickname of preference. After host Jennifer Hudson asked for its origins, Kathy credited her sisters for the nickname, explaining that they employed it “when they couldn’t say ‘Kathy.'”

“And just to look at him last night in the crib, he is so long and big, and he’s getting hair,” she gushed. “And just smiles. He woke up for a second, and he was smiling. And it’s really something to have my first baby having her first baby.”

She also made sure to highlight London, as she deemed the two “Irish twins” on Wednesday’s show.

As for Paris, — who said that her children have “just brought so much love and happiness to [her] life” — she admitted that she was “really nervous” ahead of unearthing the surprise.

“Because just to surprise someone with something like that was quite the surprise,” she continued. “Like as my mom said, I am full of surprises, but that was on a whole other level. But it was just so emotional, too. Just such a special moment.”

Kathy expressed her understanding with respect to Paris opting to go about breaking the news this way.

“You’re giving respect to, as far as privacy, I think when you have surrogates, it’s protecting them, too,” she added. “God forbid one person tells one person and then. I mean I knew that eventually, this was in the process, but I didn’t know when.”

The Hilton family matriarch also issued some marital words of wisdom in light of her 44-year-long marriage to Rick Hilton, including to surround yourselves with “happy couples with the same values,…keeping it spicy, and never taking one another for granted.”

“And never go to bed without kissing each other if you have a disagreement,” she concluded.

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