If you’re going to come clean about an eating disorder or drug problem, then Vanity Fair is the place to do it!
In a refreshingly candid and sincere interview with the mag, Nicole Richie admits to having a problem and seeking medical treatment.
Says The Simple Life star, “I know I’m too thin right now, so I wouldn’t want any young girl looking at me and saying, ‘That’s what I want to look like.’ I do know that they will, which is another reason I really do need to do something about it. I’m not happy with the way I look right now.”
Nicole’s doctor, urged by Richie to speak to the mag, tells Vanity Fair: “Our evaluation is an ongoing one. We’re working on a systematic plan to get more calories in, and we’re going to watch it and see if it succeeds. We’re all concerned, and she’s concerned, but it’s either going to improve or it won’t. If it’s not anorexia, she should be able to gain the weight. If it ends up being anorexia, we’ll help her with that. I think she’s willing to look this in the eye.”
Nicole blames stress on the loss of her appetite. Shit, we need to get stressed more often!
“I had a bad breakup, and it eats me up inside when I’m upset about something,” she explains. “I get really stressed out, and I do lose my appetite, but I do force myself to eat. I tried to put the weight on my way, eating burritos, but that wasn’t working, so I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor. I was scared that it could be something more serious, because it wasn’t making any sense to me; I really was trying… Yes, I’m too thin, but that’s just a result of what’s really going on with me; the bigger picture is how I deal with problems,” she says.
Try and try she does.
“I eat the worst foodsxe2€”salty cheese-and-grease kind of stuff.xe2€xa6 I have gained weight since I was at my thinnest,” she says, but she doesn’t know how much she weighs. “I get weighed once a week with my nutritionist, but I don’t ask. Numbers aren’t going to mean anything to me.”
Kid as we may, we do applaud Richie for seeking help.
That’s a brave move and a great first step!
Nicole also talks about Paris, as both girls will probably be forced by interviewers to do in perpetuity.
Richie says that, contrary to some reports, she never screened that infamous sex tape. “That was completely made up,” she says. “A, I don’t watch porn, and, B, I don’t want to see someone I’ve known forever having sex. I mean, that’s gross!”
You don’t watch porn? That’s so sad.
“We never had a fight,” she says. “I just decided I didn’t want to be her friend anymore. We’re just two completely different people; we don’t have that much in common. I really don’t have anything horrible to say about her,” she says. “When I got out of rehab, I had to figure out what path to go down, and part of that included taking certain people out of my life.xe2€xa6 When Paris made her little announcement that ‘Nicole knows what she did,’ I didn’t really understand what that was about, because we hadn’t been friends in such a long time. I can only guess that she had House of Wax coming out.”
Despite dabbling in acting herself and her success on TV, Richie tells Vanity Fair, “I never wanted to be on television; I always wanted to be a singer. I always wanted to do Broadway.”
Richie is currently working with manager Benny Medina to try and launch a musical career, and, quite wisely, she’s also working on herself.
She says, “I am learning so much about myself that for me to tell other people what to do in their lives is something I’m not really fit to do. I’m a work in progress. I’m not ‘there’ yet. I don’t know whether I’ll ever be ‘there.’”
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