Paris Hilton said she chose to spend her 23-day sentence for parole violtion in a county jail rather than a more posh slammer because she had something to prove. To reporters.

"I did have a choice to go to a pay jail," Usmagazine.com reported Hilton as saying. "But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I'm not and that's why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I'm going to be treated like everyone else. I'm going to do the time, I'm going to do it the right way."

Sweetheart, you missed the opportunity to do things the right way when you got behind the wheel while intoxicated. Checking in to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood is not going to impress anyone. Particularly not the media. No matter what your decrepit publicist says.

We'll see you in 23 days.