VIDEO : Paris Hilton Wants To Be Seen As A Business Woman

Paris Hilton may well be one of the savviest celebrities of her generation. She used her status as a hotel heiress, eventually nabbing her own reality series, The Simple Life. Her personal life headlines for years, while she became more famous through her reality TV shows. Hilton has since worked hard to move beyond the image she maintained. Hilton told Harper?s Bazaar, "I want to be known as a businesswoman. I don't want to be known as a reality TV star; I don't like the way that sounds.? In regards to her past, she stated, "I have really grown past that. Now I mostly focus on my empire and my brand, rather than everything else that comes with the reality star kind of life."