How much does nicole richie weigh
2006-12-14 11:27:16,from:WOWNicole Richie's weight is 85 lbs.
Nicole Richie: 'I'm Too Thin'
Nicole Richie, whose rail-thin frame has been a source of much discussion in the media, is now joining the chorus of voices saying that she is too skinny.
"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,' " Richie tells Vanity Fair in its June issue. "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."
Richie blames her severe weight loss on, in part, her December breakup with then-fiancí“dam "DJ AM" Goldstein. "I get really stressed out, and I do lose my appetite," she says. (She and AM have been spotted together again recently.)
In an effort to put on a few pounds, Richie says she forced herself to eat ¨C particularly high-calorie foods like burritos ¨C but eventually sought professional help. "I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor. I was scared that it could be something more serious."
She is also working with a psychiatrist and a personal trainer. Her medical team characterizes Richie's weight as "in the realm of anorexia," the magazine reports. However, Dr. Jeffery Wilkins, vice-chair of the department of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, points out, "Our evaluation could change at any time."
Wilkins adds, "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."
Still, Richie says she doesn't even 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."
Ultimately, Richie says her restless childhood, the divorce of her adoptive parents, Lionel and Brenda Richie, plus an adolescence spent partying and fighting drug addiction all contributed to her trouble with her weight.
"I want to be able to take whatever comes to me and not physically break down every time hard things come my way, because hard things are always going to come my way," she says. "I'm really trying to make it so I have the proper tools to deal with life."
Richie, who is working on her first album and a follow-up to her novel The Truth About Diamonds, also sheds some light on the dissolution of her friendship with her Simple Life costar Paris Hilton: "We never had a fight. I just decided I didn?t want to be her friend anymore."
Although she's considered a style icon and media darling, Richie says she's still trying to figure things out for herself. "Part of the reason I don't really talk about being sober is that I don't want to feel the pressure of being a role model," 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 if I'll ever be 'there.' "
Inside Nicole Richie's Weight Crisis
In recent weeks, Nicole Richie's weight had dropped to around 90 lbs. ¨C making her extremely thin, even at 5'2". So when she announced her decision to seek treatment for her weight issues, those close to her were relieved.
"She's gonna be fine," dad Lionel Richie, who had urged his daughter to seek help, tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "She's worrying me to death, but she's gonna be okay."
Her rep told PEOPLE on Oct. 26 that Richie had decided "to undergo diagnostic treatment to determine why she's not been putting on any weight," but stressed, "this is not a treatment for an eating disorder."
Indeed, Richie, 25, has for two years steadfastly denied that she has an eating disorder. "She's tired of everyone saying, 'You don't eat,' because she does," says a source close to her.
As part of her new treatment, her rep says she is "working with a team of doctors and specialists whose focus is nutrition." She has sought similar help before, telling Vanity Fair in June that she was consulting a nutritionist and a doctor about her weight.
Her program is not in-patient: Only two days after her announcement, Richie was spotted out at the L.A. hot spot Hyde Lounge and on Oct. 30 lunched with a friend at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Even so, producers of her reality series, The Simple Life, which was scheduled to resume production Nov. 6, have agreed to delay shooting until she is fit for duty. (Richie now tells PEOPLE, "I'm ready to go back to work," though the studio has not decided whether to stick to the original schedule.)
And she has plenty of other work to look forward to. In addition to The Simple Life, Richie has a deal with 20th Century Fox TV to star in a sitcom inspired by her life. "She's got great charisma," says Fox TV studio president Dana Walden. "Everyone is always rooting for her."
But one thing is most important, Richie tells PEOPLE: "I'm focusing on my health right now, and getting the help I need, like anybody else would."