In this article, we give a representation of * -paranormal absolutely norm attaining operator. Explicitly saying, every * -paranormal absolutely norm attaining (AN in short) T can be decomposed as U ⊕ D, where U is a direct sum of scalar multiple of unitary operators and D is a 2 × 2 upper diagonal operator matrix. By the representation it is clear that the class of * -paranormal AN -operators is bigger than the class of normal AN -operators but here we observe that a * -paranormal AN -operator is normal if either it is invertible or dimension of its null space is same as dimension of null space of its adjoint.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47A10, 47B20.