Paris Hilton talks about her business in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar magazine

Perched in a makeup chair wearing her signature Juicy Couture tracksuit in cherry red, Paris Hilton is flicking through Success magazine—’Build Your Empire,’ reads a cover line—with a pile of old Forbes copies stacked next to her. She carefully peels two hydrating under-eye masks from her face, picks up a book titled 100 Things Successful People Do, and grabs a pink highlighter from her handbag. She flashes the book’s cover at someone from her content strategy team, who snaps a photo for Instagram. “Did you get a good one?” she asks, smiling.

It’s an expertly-crafted image, one the 35-year-old has been finessing over the last couple of years after a stint in Switzerland with her Zurich-based millionaire ex-boyfriend, Thomas Gross, where she says she “finally” became an adult. The ditzy blonde she portrayed in The Simple Life, which catapulted both Hilton and co-star Nicole Richie to stardom in 2003, along with her real-life penchant for partying, has been replaced by a more serious persona: a career woman who, before our BAZAAR.com shoot, spent a week flying between five countries on business, including Bali where she is opening a new hotel, and Australia where she was promoting her new fragrance, Gold Rush.

Read the rest of the interview here.