WWW- If you can’t get to Paris, where do you turn?
Playboy, for one, is opting for Natalie Reid, a Canadian Paris Hilton look-alike who’s set to bare all this month in the guise of her famous counterpart.
“I think it’s going to lead to a lot of opportunities,” the 21-year-old Winnipeg native who stripped down for a six-page spread for the magazine’s September issue told the Calgary Sun. “I still want to pursue modeling but I really want to get into acting.”
Reid’s Playboy debut, craftily titled “One Night as Paris” (at least in a preview layout shown to Reid beforehand), hits newsstands Tuesday.
“It’s really gorgeous and very classy and it’s very tasteful,” she said. One pic in particular features Reid cuddling a teacup Chihuahua that looks an awful lot like Hilton’s own canine arm candy, Tinker Bell.
Unlike the ubiquitous heiress, who reportedly has turned down offers from Playboy to appear in the buff, Reid has so far avoided sex tape snafus. However, she has been getting plenty of exposure as a paid party guest since moving to New York in 2005. While the New York Daily News reported that you can get a proficient Paris impersonator to crash your bash for about $850, Reid said that she can earn up to $2,000 per appearance.
But Reid, who’s been taking acting classes when she’s not modeling or perfecting her Parisian poses, is hoping for bigger and better things after this latest gig.
“A lot of celebrities and top models have done Playboy, so it’s pretty exciting,” she told the Sun.
“They really work you to get perfection,” Reid said about her two-day Playboy shoot. “I can’t say I’ve ever worked so hard on a photo shoot before.” The leggy blonde previously was a dancer at Scores, a comparatively high-class New York strip club perhaps best known from the frequent shout-outs Howard Stern gave (and continues to give) it on his morning radio show.
“Natalie Reid has been a high-profile woman in the L.A. and New York social circuit for the past year,” Playboy spokeswoman Jessica Sigelbaum said.
But what are all those people saying about the faux socialite? Reid said that she and Hilton have spent time together–she “invited me to her house in West Hollywood, and we hung out. She was totally in shock, like staring at me and taking a lot of pictures”–but Hilton’s camp doesn’t sound quite so gung-ho about the situation.
“It’s a form of stalking,” an unnamed Hilton pal told the Daily News, referring to the proliferation of Parises out there. “The family has to spend money on lawyers to keep these fakes in their place.”
Speaking of fakes, 33 pieces of Hilton’s costume jewelry that were part of a haul seized from an L.A.-area storage facility in February when the Simple Life star missed a monthly payment are currently up for auction on eBay.