Where did you meet?
It's funny, but we met about ten years ago at a club in Monaco. He was 14 and I was 16. He came up to me and introduced himself. I told him my name was Paris, too, and it was enough to be a connection. I remember that we danced until six in the morning. But then we lost contact with each other until I went to his 22nd birthday party last September. And ever since then we've become really close and get along so well together. It's a really beautiful feeling.

What's special about him?
It's his manner. He has this very European worldliness and that's very charming and very romantic. He's also extremely polite and gallant in an old-fashioned way, almost like a character out of a book or a movie. There's just something very elegant about him and he treats me like a princess. I think all women deserve a man like that! (Laughs)

What kinds of romantic things does he do for you?
He sends me flowers all the time and writes these wonderful love letters to me that are so romantic you wouldn't believe. I've never met a man who has that kind of sense of what love is all about or how to make a woman feel loved and appreciated.

Do you see yourself starting a family with him?
I can see that happening in a few years or so. I know in my heart that I would be a great mother and that Paris would be a great father. Kids are something I've always planned on having and being in love with a great man is the first step down that road.
I have a lot of beautiful animals that I look after and I feel that I would have a lot of love to give to my children. That's one important goal I want to achieve in my life. I really would like my own family.

So you feel that he's the one?
Yes. He loves me very deeply and I love him the same way.

Your celebrity has been something of a phenomenon in itself. Do you feel you're misperceived by the public?
I don't know. I think people will realise that I'm pretty serious about building my own business and trying to put out good products on the market which people will enjoy. I actually work a lot and I'm not even going out to clubs anymore because I don't have the time or energy anymore for that.
If you want to be successful, you've got to focus on your work and right now I have a lot of good projects going on and I don't want to neglect anything. So I'm up at 6 or 7 in the morning every day because I'm very involved in all the business decisions that need to be made.

A lot of stories have been coming out lately about your split with your former best friend, Nicole Richie. What happened between you two?
I'm not going to get into specifics but what happened was bad enough that Nicole and I are no longer friends and that's why I'm going to do Simple Life with someone else. I would love to do it with Kimberly Stewart, who's been my friend for years. She would be great and I would really love to do it with her.
But there's no point in my doing series with Nicole because you can't pretend to be friends with someone in that way when that's no longer the case.

Still, it's shocking to a lot of people that you and Nicole have become enemies?
We're not enemies, but I can't be friends with someone who doesn't support me or doesn't want good things for me. I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends. I would really do almost anything to help my friends and make sure they're happy and nothing bad happens to them.
So I kind of expect that kind of feeling in return and when you find out that that's not the case it's very upsetting. I only want friends who are there for me just like I'm there for them, otherwise it's too painful.

Alright. Let's talk about House of Wax. What was that experience like?
I loved doing that film. It's my first real acting test because a lot of the other stuff I've done has just been cameo appearances or where I'm playing myself more or less. But this was different. My character is a pretty cool, pretty interesting woman who finds herself in this terrible situation along with her other friends. Things get fairly scary in the film and I think audiences are going to like it.

Are you comfortable as an actress?
Yeah. I think I can become a good actress and it's something I want to prove to myself and prove to other people. The film was shot in Australia and it was one of the toughest experiences I've had because we were shooting a lot at night and half the time we were freezing. So you learn to be disciplined and prepare yourself for your scenes because sometimes you have to wait a few days before you do even one line or one shot.
I'm very glad though that I had the chance to be there with a lot of good actors and it was a great experience for me. I've also a few other films and so I feel I'm getting better and feeling more confident about what I can do as an actress. I want to do a lot more movies.

Do you worry a lot about the loss of privacy and the scandal involving your phone being hacked into?
It can be difficult sometimes but that's the kind of life I've chosen and it's responsible for my being able to develop my business interests and my acting career, so I'm not complaining about it.
But the phone thing was really awful and I wasn't the only one who had her phone data stolen - it happened to a lot of other celebrities at around the same time but you mainly read about my case. The worst thing about that is that you worry about your private letters and messages being read and put on the internet. And obviously I'm a target when it comes to that so now I'm being incredibly careful with my cellphone and I'm not using the other attachments anymore because it's such a nightmare if a lot of private information and addresses get stolen.

Were any of your friends mad at you?
No, they understood what happened and it's happened to some of them too. It's just a huge annoyance as you can imagine and so you have to change your number. But it's not such a big deal.

You're known for being one of the world's most beautiful women. What do you think about the current plastic surgery, nip and tuck craze?
I think a lot of the women who have plastic surgery look worse than before because so many times it's obvious and it just doesn't look natural or attractive.
I can understand women having their noses done because that's such an important part of your appearance, and why not if it makes you look good and you feel better about yourself. But a lot of the women who are in their late thirties or forties are overdoing it - especially with those ridiculously big lips. Eeewwww!
I don't know any guys who get turned on by that!

You seem pretty happy these days even though you're so busy. Do you feel you have the right balance?
Yeah. Life is really wonderful even though I don't have a lot of free time anymore. But I think you learn how valuable it is and how much personal satisfaction you get from doing something productive in your life.
I'm happy that I'm involved in a lot of good projects and that my acting career is moving forward and all that. It's exactly the kind of life I've wanted and that I've been striving for. I want to show a lot of people and my parents that I'm capable of achieving a lot more than maybe people expected from me.
But the biggest thing in my life is having a great man like Paris at my side. You want someone like that to be there with you while it's all happening!