Is Paris Hilton trying to make friends with Kim again?

Los Angeles - Paris Hilton says North West is a "beautiful baby".

The 32-year-old socialite's former pal Kim Kardashian welcomed her first child North with rapper boyfriend Kanye West in June and Paris has praised the child as "beautiful" and told X17Online.com she is "so happy" for Kim.

This is a turnaround for Paris who recently took a swipe at Kim's series Keeping Up with the Kardashians by insisting The Simple Life is still the best reality show.

The hotel heiress claims is too busy to watch the popular E! reality series which catapulted her former friend Kim to fame and hailed her own reality series - which saw her and pal Nicole Richie work in a variety of unusual jobs - as "iconic".

She said: "Reality TV is a lot of hard work, and Kim has done well for herself. I don't watch reality TV now, because I don't have time. As far as I'm concerned, The Simple Life was the best reality TV show going, and it turned 10 years old recently. It's timeless, iconic and you can still watch it."