Paris Hilton's Son's Big Head

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Paris Hilton's Son's Big Head or Paris Hilton's Big Headed Baby "Phoenix" refers to comments and memes joking about the size and shape of Paris Hilton's son Phoneix's head after she posted a series of photos posing with him to Instagram in mid-October 2023. The images spread across social media that month, inspiring photoshops, memes and teasing about his perceived large head, including comparisons between him and Megamind and comments suggesting the baby is telepathic. The photos also inspiring speculation that her son's head size was caused by a health problem. Later that month, Hilton responded to the comments in a statement calling the comments "hurtful" and claiming that Phoenix is perfectly healthy.

Origin

On October 19th, 2023, Paris Hilton shared the first photos of her 10-month-old son Phoenix on Instagram^[1] in a post reading, "My precious angel baby Phoenix's first time in NYC. ✨👱🏼‍♀️👶🏼🗽✨" garnering over 1.7 million likes in roughly two weeks (shown below).

Images from the post gained viral spread on social media, including a post by the People Facebook^[2] page that day that gained over 64,000 reactions in the same span of time. The post's comment section and the comment sections of other posts sharing the photos were largely filled with jokes about the perceived large size of Phoenix's head.

While many of these comments have been buried by more positive comments or removed, Pedestrian.tv^[3] and News.com.au^[4] reported on the comments on October 21st, 2023, giving examples including, "CHILL THAT BABY JUST HAS A LOT OF THINGS ON HIS MIND," "Lil guy thinkin’ hard," "He is already further AHEAD in life then most" and "Pinky and da brain." Others purportedly left comments earnestly suggesting that Hilton bring him to a doctor to see if he has a health issue like macrocephaly. On October 22nd, X^[5] user @defnoodles shared two screenshots of comments about his head left on a Facebook post (shown below, left and right).

Spread

On October 20th, 2023, X^[6] gossip page @PopCrave reposted two of the photos, garnering over 2,400 likes and reposts in 10 days. Many of the quote-reposts are photoshops putting Phoenix in various settings and joking about his big head (examples shown below, left, right). That day, X^[7] user @CWingUexkull quote-reposted it, writing, "this is a cranium of world-historical importance This could be the muad’dib," garnering over 8,200 likes in 10 days (shown below, center).

On October 23rd, Redditor u/TomTheDuckGuy posted a meme to /r/dankmemes^[11] about how Phoenix might react to the memes when he grows up, garnering over 1,300 upvotes in a week (shown below).

On October 24th, X^[8] user @amuse posted, "Paris Hilton’s baby is a genius…" along with a photo encircling Phoenix's head with a red circle, garnering over 600 likes in six days. That day, Paris Hilton made a post to X^[9] responding to the jokes about Phoenix, calling them "hurtful" and writing that it is "unacceptable" to target her son. She also claims that Phoenix is "perfectly healthy." The post gained over 12,000 likes in six days (shown below, left). On October 25th, X^[10] user @krassenstein made a post defending Hilton's baby, garnering over 8,400 likes in five days (shown below, right).