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Nicole Richie
born: 21-09-1981
birth place: Berkeley, California, USA

Notwithstanding Richie’s troubled history of drug and alcohol abuse, The Simple Life was a huge success with television audiences worldwide. The central theme of the series was that Paris and Nicole - two little rich girls - would basically try a range of blue-collar activities and lifestyles, with the TV cameras charting their progress. Series One opened with the two girls living for a whole month with a family in the backwaters of rural Arkansas. In the second series, Paris and Nicole traveled in the southern states of America, driving a pink pick-up truck and living in a trailer. In the third series, Fox TV challenged the girls to go and live with no less than 16 different families carefully selected from various towns up and down the East coast.

Towards the end of 2005, Fox made the decision not to engage the girls for a fourth series, saying “they did not see a place for it in their schedule”. But the series was promptly picked up by the cable network E!, and a fourth series, “The Simple Life: ’Til Death Do Us Part hit the small screen. This series saw the girls travel around California, acting out the unaccustomed roles of wife and mother to a variety of families. The Simple Life 5: Malibu: Camp Simple Life was held up when Nicole encountered further problems with her health.

Following The Simple Life, Nicole attracted a string of other roles on TV, including guest appearances in MADtv, 8 Simple Rules, American Dreams and Six Feet Under. In addition to her success as a TV actress, Nicole made her movie debut with a supporting role in Kids in America in 2005. She has also appeared in her father’s music video, I Call It Love, alongside Adam Rodriguez.

Nicole’s health has been an ongoing problem. In March 2006, she made headlines in the world’s press, when photos of her looking much thinner than usual were published in the tabloids. Commenting on the photographs in an interview with Vanity Fair, she said: “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.’” She also confessed that she had consulted a doctor and a nutritionist, as she’d been concerned that her problems might be rather more serious. Rumours also abounded that she had been seeing a psychiatrist and a personal trainer during the same period.

In September 2006, Nicole refuted claims that she had an eating disorder, saying: “I am not anorexic: I am not bulimic: I do not have an eating disorder.” In another interview, this time with Elle Girl’s Prom Issue, Nicole said: “It upsets me when people come up to me and ask me if I have a problem.” Just one month later, it was announced in the press that she was seeking treatment for “an inability to put on weight, though it is not treatment for an eating disorder.” Nicole was admitted to hospital in March, 2007 because of dehydration and it was later announced that she had been diagnosed as suffering from hypoglycemia - or low blood sugar.

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