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Social media is a gift and a curse. Paulina Gretzky learned that the hard way last November when she got carried away posting salacious photos on her Twitter account. The eldest daughter of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky soon found her pics plastered all over the ’net and TMZ cameras in her face. The classically trained singer, who’s working on her Universal Records debut, was written off as just another celebrity daughter gone wild. But the 23-year-old Los Angeles native is more than a racy socialite. It’s time for her voice to be heard.

Did it bother you that people have focused more on the Twitter and Instagram pictures and the TMZ video than your singing?

The only reason people are paying attention to that is because of my father. I don’t think they’d care if I was anybody else. I’m a normal 23-year-old. I know attention is part of the career I’ve chosen, but I wish I was presented in a different light. The rumor that my dad made me shut down my Twitter account is completely false. I want people to see that I’m intelligent. I’m not a bimbo. I have an 8-year-old sister. The only thing I want to do is be a role model. I’m not trying to say, “You should follow me, all you girls,” but I want my little sister to respect me and see how much I’ve accomplished. It’s hurtful when this older generation of people that doesn’t really understand me or take the time to get to know me trashes me.

The outfit in the TMZ video was crazy though.

I did it to myself that time. I always think I should dress like myself and represent who I am, but I had something in the back of my head telling me that maybe it was not a good idea to wear that outfit to dinner that night. Of course, the next day TMZ said that I was going to nightclubs in lingerie. I wasn’t. I was at a restaurant eating dinner with friends. That’s my biggest problem with it, that people are lying about what I’m doing. But I should have been more aware. I understand that. I just never had to censor myself before.

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