Paris Hilton says she was very good at pretending to be a ‘dumb blonde’ and invented a new type of celebrity

Paris Hilton insists she’s not a ‘dumb blonde’, she's just good at pretending to be one.

As the reality TV star is currently on a promotional tour for her memoir, she stopped by the UK show Lorraine and touched upon her public image.

Despite being well-known for her ditzy blonde persona during her stint on The Simple Life with her best friend Nicole Richie, the TV personality-turned-DJ said it was all an act.

She said: "It really was [ground-breaking], we are the OGs and it was amazing to see so many people inspired by it as we created a new genre of celebrity.

"I've always been ahead of my time!

"Just like I say, I'm not a dumb blonde, I'm just very good at pretending to be one.”

While her reality series concluded in 2007, Hilton kept up her clueless rich girl persona.

However, there's an underside to her that many people would never know about.

She added: "I've always loved music, I've played the violin and piano since I was a little girl. I've always loved singing. I'm in the studio doing my second album so it's just been incredible.

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"I can do it all! I feel like you can be anything, you can be a mom, you can be a businesswoman, you can be an artist, you can do it all!"

In her new book, Hilton also commented about Pink’s 2006 depiction of the socialite in her music video for ‘Stupid Girls’.

In the video, the singer parodied Hilton’s sex tape with her then-boyfriend, Rick Salomon.

“Pink sang about ‘outcasts and girls with ambition'. That’s what I wanna see. But she chose not to see it in me,” she wrote.

Hilton added: “When everyone was buzzing about a sex tape of a certain teenage girl from a soon-to-be-hit TV show – a girl who said emphatically over and over that she did not want the tape out there – the takeaway was ‘Stupid Girl'.

“The whole video is a not-at-all-subtle send-up of ‘porno paparazzi girls’ in general and, specifically, me, in a parody of my infamous sex tape.”

While the scandal happened over two decades ago, Hilton disclosed that the incident still affects her, and the US still doesn’t have revenge porn laws in all its states.