Paris Hilton’s old AIM screen name was so her, but Nicole Richie’s had a significant backstory
Famous besties Richie and Paris Hilton reminisced about the decade that made them famous on the latest episode of ‘Call Her Daddy’.
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were some of the defining starlets of the 2000s, and now they’re talking about something truly of the time: their AIM screen names.
On the Dec. 11 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Hilton and Richie, both 43, opened up to host Alex Cooper about their shared childhood and teenage years.
When discussing how Richie met her husband Joel Madden, she mentioned that they would chat on AIM — AOL’s instant messaging service, which became popular in the late ‘90s and maintained its user base throughout the 2000s.
Cooper, 30, asked what Richie’s AIM screen name was. “My first name was PrincessNR because I had a dog named princess,” she shared. But then she had a second, BallerinaGirlNR.
“ ‘Ballerina Girl’ is a song that my dad wrote, and the song is after me,” she explained. Her dad, Lionel Richie, included the song on 1986’s Dancing on the Ceiling. But the screen name did lead to a funny misunderstanding.
