The Heart of Nicole Richie
The Heart of Nicole Richie by Roxanne McDonald
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I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I’m very comfortable, and have nothing to hide. ~Nicole Richie |
I know I might get jabs and jeers for this, but I love Nicole Richie. I think she is the brains and the personality of the pair linked together in infamy; I like how she instigates minor trouble; and I find her self-effacing sense of humor a delight.
I also appreciate the heart behind the hearty and haughty façade, which includes some interesting actions and acknowledgments and associations…as follows.
Accolades/Awards
I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I’m over it. I like Hollywood better. ~Nicole Richie
2004-Named #27 on Maxim’s Hot “100 of 2004” list
2005- Named #37 on the Maxim’s “Hot 100 of 2005” list.
2006-Ranked #95 on Forbes’ “Top 100 Celebrities” list
Determined to be 190th “most-searched” celebrity [at Actress Archives]
Nicole Richie Not So Bad
Nicole Richie Not So Bad by Roxanne McDonald
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So adorable—clear and creamy skinned and smart aleck instigator of “The Real Life” antics…. |
Then she and Paris Hilton have a parting of the ways. She splits with her boyfriend, Adam Goldstein (a.k.a. DJ AM). The next thing we know, she is charged with DUI and is wraith thin, near death [some fear] at eighty-five pounds.
Hollywood peer pressure is brutal, granted. To be and stay in, you typically must keep in super shape—but often at the risk of health. But who says Nicole’s weight issues are caused by Hollywood protocol?
The control issues that ride like a hungry monkey on the anorexic’s back can cause a cycle of binging and purging (or just purging, or just over-exercising) that paradoxically makes for a woman who appears to be out of control. But Nicole has said she is not anorexic, is not bulimic, and does not have an eating disorder. She has also said other things, responding in various ways to anyone saying she has a problem: Nicole said to Vanity Fair interviewers that she was aware of how she was too thin, how she wouldn’t want little girls trying to emulate her, and how she was actually concerned with her weigh to the point of consulting with nutritionists, doctors, personal trainers, and psychiatrists to investigate what the problem was and to help her get weight back on. She said to Elle Girl that “skinny was her natural body type…,” that “there wasn’t anything she could do about it,” and that as the skinny one she was then (2006), she “couldn’t imagine having to always wear a bra.”
But putting all of the conflicting responses aside, I wonder if another variable isn’t responsible, here. If, say, at the most unconscious of levels, Nicole was exacting a kind of social/emotional revenge, she might have been attempting to look as much like Paris as she could.
My armchair psychology is wanting, I know. And my “theory” is likely not new.
I just wanted to acknowledge what a loss it seems to be for those of us who liked “The Simple Life” and who found Nicole the reason, her being by far the most interesting of the two socialites, her having earned her fame more so than Paris ever had to, and her being, if you ask me, the much better looking of the two.
Stay on that climb, Nicole. And bring back your cheeky, smart-ass irreverence. We need more attitudes like yours, not more skinny minnies with little to contribute.
Nicole Richie at Celebrity Spider