How Perez Made Peace with Jennifer Aniston

Feb. 4, 2011— -- Now that Jennifer Aniston has revealed her chance encounter with Perez Hilton, the celebrity blogger hopes that more people will notice the new kinder, gentler Perez.

Hilton, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, told ABCNews.com that, although his encounter with Aniston did not prompt him to be "more positive," her stamp of approval means a lot to him.

"It's really rewarding and inspiring and heartwarming to have Jennifer Aniston give me her seal of approval," said Hilton, who will turn 33 next month. "And for her to have made this proclamation on Ellen DeGeneres' show means I'm turning the corner in terms of public perception. There's no turning back."

Before Aniston and DeGeneres turned to the serious topic of her encounter with Hilton, they had some fun with an early birthday present DeGeneres gave to Aniston, who turns 42 next week. On Thursday's "Ellen DeGeneres Show," DeGeneres presented Aniston with a pair of vibrating nipple ads, and the good-natured actress put them on under her blouse.

As DeGeneres turned on the device, Aniston yelped, "Am I getting milked?"

"What's happening?" Aniston said, laughing out loud.

"Isn't that lovely?" replied DeGeneres, who also had on a pair. "It will enhance you."

"I don't want to be enhanced," Aniston responded, to which DeGeneres said, "Yes, you do."

Later, DeGeneres asked Aniston about her chance meeting with Hilton at a Los Angeles parking garage last August.

It was, Aniston said, "one of those moments you just never expect to happen. I had finished dinner with a girlfriend and we were driving out and I saw this tall, long, lean person and I say, 'Who is that?' And she says, 'I think that's Perez Hilton.' I said, 'No. I have to say something to him. I have to.'

"So I pulled up and we were sort of scoping each other out as I was pulling the car up," she continued. "I just rolled down the window and I was like, 'Hi.' And he went, 'Hi.' We stood there like two deer in headlights. And I just said, 'Come here. Just talk to me for a second.'

"It was one of those great moments. It was a lovely meeting and I was just like, 'Why are you so mean?'" she said.

Aniston, whom Hilton used to refer to as "Maniston," was a frequent target of his six-year-old website.

"She asked me, 'Why do you call me Maniston?'" Hilton said in a video posted on his website, in which he recounted the meeting. "She said that it hurt her and that it was mean."

"I told her all the excuses that I kept telling myself," he said in the video. "I would make myself feel better by saying things like what I told her, 'You're just a character, it's just entertainment, don't take it so seriously.'"

But as the conversation continued, the two began to see each other as human beings, not characters.