"Looks fade and I know that. I know I'm not going to be good looking forever. No one is." - Paris Hilton, September 2004
LOS ANGELES (June 26, 2007) - Give her credit. Even back then, Paris Hilton was already looking forward long before she ever spent a night behind bars. And now that she's had to think about her life, is she finally ready to surprise us all?
One thing is for sure - she'll have plenty of opportunities. But what comes next for Paris?
Her first post-jail opportunity - teaching.
The Learning Annex has offered Paris $1 million to teach a one-hour class on "How To Build Your Brand."
Fitting since she once told Newsweek, "I consider myself a businesswoman and a brand."
In fact, the million-dollar speaking fee is the second highest ever offered, right behind The Learning Annex's star instructor - Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, ego expert and author of "The Little Book On Big Ego" Joel Epstein told Access Hollywood jail was the best thing that could've happened to the heiress.
"Paris just had forced ego rehab," Epstein said. "Even though the sentence was obviously excessive, she should be sending that judge flowers, candy and a card because really in the big picture he did her a big, big favor."
Epstein said Paris' number one challenge now is to keep her monster ego in check.
"True ego monsters that act that way 24/7 need to be locked up. I think that she just has a lot of ego monster moments all clumped together and we get to see them every time she has them. But she can also do other things with her life that are very sincere things where she can use her celebrity to actually do things to make other people shine instead of just herself," he added.
Paris has said she wants to be a better person by increasing her charity work. And she has spent the last 23 days behind bars making a lofty to-do list that includes building a transitional home to help her fellow inmates upon their release from jail, helping raise money for breast cancer and multiple sclerosis research, diseases that struck her grandmothers.
She also wants to open a Paris Hilton Playhouse for Children.
Hollywood media expert Michael Levine said Paris is in a position to say good-bye to her party girl image and pull and Angelina Jolie.
"She changed her image from a wild child- Billy Bob Thornton crazy-brother kissing and all kinds of outrageous behavior and turned herself into a kind of U.N. missionary," Levine told Access. "A much, much more serious image and persona."
Paris will get her first chance to change her image Wednesday night when she appears on "Larry King Live." As for the magazines, People gets the first interview, while US Weekly declares this week's issue Paris-free.
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