Paris Hilton was carrying her nine-month-old son, Phoenix, when she appeared in New York this week with husband Carter Rheaum.
The couple happily announced this January that they welcomed their little bundle of joy into the world via surrogate.
When spotted with her baby bump this week, Paris cut a casual figure in black hoodies that highlighted her petite frame.
Pulling her signature blonde locks into a bun and hiding them under a baseball cap, she accessorized the look with a large pair of butterfly shades.
Meanwhile, her dashing husband, who is a venture capitalist, threw a dark green jacket over a true blue T-shirt and rounded off the look with black jeans.
Stepping out: Paris Hilton held her nine-month-old son Phoenix as she stepped out in New York this week with husband Carter Rheaum
The family comes after Paris candidly revealed that “a lot of balance” goes into her ability to juggle a career and a baby.
“Phoenix is always my first priority and I’ve learned how to say no,” she said People‘, calling her son ‘my everything’ and noting that I always put him first.
She explained: ‘I keep saying no to things because I just want to spend as much time as possible with him, and I just don’t want to miss any of these special moments in his life and all these milestones.’
Paris was diligently tight-lipped about her baby at first, waiting a month after announcing the birth to even reveal his name.
She and Carter kept the baby’s birth a secret even from their immediate families until she broke the news on social media.
“My whole life has been so public,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. ‘I never had anything for myself. We decided we wanted to have this whole experience for ourselves.’
While the surrogate was in labor, Paris was so determined to protect her privacy that she even went to the trouble of dressing up in a brunette wig and checking into the hospital under an alias.
Her decision was especially significant given how close she is to her family, especially her sister Nikki Hilton Rothschild and her mother Kathy Hilton.
My baby: The couple happily announced this January that they welcomed their little bundle of joy into the world via surrogate
Hunk-tastic: Meanwhile, her dashing husband, who is a venture capitalist, threw a dark green jacket over a true blue T-shirt and rounded off the look with black jeans
However, tensions flared between mother and daughter in November when Kathy slipped away Hey! News that IVF was a ‘fight’ for Paris.
“I don’t know where she got that from,” Paris replied in a TMZ interview the next day. ‘It was never a fight at all.’
When Paris announced the arrival of her first child, all she said was “You are already loved beyond words,” in a photo of the baby’s hand holding Paris’s finger.
In an episode of her podcast This is Parisshe said Phoenix was ‘over a week old’ before she told Cathy and Nicky about his birth.