BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Paris Hilton is to be released from jail Tuesday and the big question she and her fans confront is has she changed, is it a change for the good, and will she stay changed?

Hilton, the ultimate let's party and pose for photos girl, says she prayed a lot in jail and found religion, she wants to build a halfway house for women recently released from jail, and she hopes the paparazzi willgo away and leave her alone to do good deeds in peace.

"I would like to make a difference," the 26-year-old hotel heiress told Barbara Walters. "God has given me this new chance."

Dorian Traube, a professor of social work at University of Southern California says making a difference is easier said than done.

"If this indeed has changed her, then the transition will be very difficult because she'll have to find a new purpose in life" beyond being queen of the party scene, Traube said. "Her life will have to change drastically, which is going to be tricky because she's going to be in the public eye more than ever."

Constant attention, along with society's "sick fascination with failure," will make Hilton's transition more challenging, Traube said.

"She has almost set herself up to fail because there's been so much talk about how she's a changed person, how she found religion and she prays all the time," she said. "People are bitter for the notoriety she has for having done very little other than party, so they're standing around waiting for her to fail."

Hilton said she is "much more grateful" after spending time in jail.

"I appreciate everything now and I think there was a lot of bad people that I was around," she told E! "I don't want to surround myself with those types of people anymore."

(Agencies)