And the difference is, is that I'm a mother now and I'm not only thinking about myself. Though Nicole Richie overcame her addiction, becoming a role model or a spokesperson for sobriety and clean living was never on her to-do list. As she explained to Vanity Fair , speaking out would put a lot of pressure on her and Richie still considered herself a work in progress. I'm not 'there' yet," she explained. Thankfully, her outlook changed over time and, as she told ABC News , being a parent drove her to try harder.
She admitted that, previously, "I did not want to be a role model. And because I didn't want to be, I really fought it. And whenever I made mistakes, at times I didn't even really feel bad for them. There was a time when the tabloid press obsessed over Nicole Richie's weight, diagnosing her with an eating disorder purely based on speculation. As a profile in Marie Claire explained, Richie had actually been diagnosed as hypoglycemic, meaning that it was much harder for her to gain weight.
The scrutiny over her weight was so intense that the starlet conducted a Vanity Fair interview along with her doctor back in to reassure the media she was getting treatment for whatever perceived weight issues she had.
Unfortunately for Richie, the doctor didn't dismiss claims that she was suffering from anorexia, so that likely did not help matters. Richie was rightfully frustrated with the tabloids at the time. It's extremely insulting and irresponsible," Richie told Marie Claire succinctly. Following years of intense media scrutiny , Nicole Richie rebranded herself as a fashion designer.
In , she told UK's The Independent that her parents, especially her mother, are her biggest inspiration, noting, "My mum has been a big influence. I'd watch her get dressed and think her fashion sense was so cool. That made the biggest imprint on me — I would just look up at her and want to be pretty, wear make-up and get dressed up. A couple years later, by then the proprietor of casual-chic brand Winter Kate and its accessories offshoot House of Harlow named for her daughter , she told The Telegraph her ethos is simple: "I just love to see everyday people wearing my designs.
In , Richie sat down with the publication again and gushed about how lucky she felt to be working in the fashion industry. Richie revealed that "designing was something I always gravitated to" — right down to creating her own figure skating costumes as a kid.
Richie further explained that she's a hands-on boss, saying, "I have a very good team that I work with now, but I design everything myself. This is not something that I just put my name to. They seemed an unlikely pairing but Nicole Richie and Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden actually come from very similar backgrounds, particularly regarding their family circumstances. As Richie explained to The Telegraph , they're both focused on creating a stable environment for their kids because they "grew up in what other people would call an unstable home.
Richie and Madden dated for five years before they felt the time "was right" to get married. In , after welcoming two children — daughter Harlow and son Sparrow , who were born in and , respectively — the couple wed. Both Nicole Richie and Joel Madden were adamant about having their kids grow up in a healthy, stable environment. In conversation with family friend Rashida Jones in , Richie told Refinery29 , "It's extremely important to us for our kids to be kids, to have a full-blown childhood.
And that is the life we've created for [them]. We ask them what they want to do. And if it's going to a movie, we just try to keep it enjoyable," Richie explained, admitting she loves nothing more than chilling out with her children at the mall.
Likewise, she told Us Weekly in that when it comes to being a good parent, "I think we just have to encourage kids to be themselves and to stand up for what they believe in and to stand up for something. As a calling card for its stars, The Simple Life wasn't exactly the best showcase, but it did highlight Nicole Richie's indisputable comedic timing.
Her snarky delivery elevated the show from horrifying train wreck to hilarious must-watch train wreck. Being an icon in the fashion industry is something that the young model and fashion designer has dreamed about since she was a little girl. She told PopSugar that she fell in love with fashion at first sight. That he made all of that and showed it and now it's coming out.
Richie didn't have to wait too long to make her dreams come true. She made her modeling debut in Teen Vogue at the age of 14 in , and, by 15, she had landed her first modeling contract with swimwear company Mary Grace Swim via HuffPost.
When it comes to fashion, Sofia Richie grew up with a pretty good role model. In , Richie told PopSugar that her big sis, Nicole, is her fashion inspiration. The older designer, who launched her line House of Harlow in , gave Richie what she says is the most important piece of fashion-related advice she's ever gotten: " Have fun and don't take yourself too seriously. Before she was a fashion designer herself, Richie was raiding Nicole's closet and dreaming of launching her own fashion line.
Other people are afraid to hurt your feelings, so they'll tell you something's cute when it isn't, but she'll be like, 'No, discard that. Being the younger sister of a fashion icon comes with a lot of pressure, though.
Nicole's Simple Life co-star has taken Richie under her wing since she was a little girl. I love her," Hilton told Us Weekly about Richie. I've known her since she was born and now to see her grow up into this amazing, beautiful woman. She's so mature and has such a good head on her shoulders. Hilton extolled Richie's talents, adding, "She literally has such great style. She doesn't even need fashion advice. She gets it. She's like this fashionista.
It's so fun. The sisterly love is mutual. Richie has said that she admires Hilton and looks up to her, telling Wonderland that the famous heiress is one of her closest friends. Fashion may be Sofia Richie's passion, but it wasn't her first love. The model originally planned to follow in her father's footsteps and pursue a career in music. It's clear that she's Lionel Richie's daughter — the model has some seriously impressive pipes and is also a skilled pianist.
Richie studied music for years and has written her own songs, as noted by Teen Vogue , but it might be a while before we see her release her own album. But I don't want my own music career. I'm Lionel Richie's daughter. When I do this I have to be percent good, and it was too much pressure for me.
I don't want anyone to have a hold on me because of my dad. Sofia Richie's light skin and light hair mean that, in spite of her famous last name, the world often forgets that she's a person of color.
While her mother, Diane Alexander, is white, her father, Lionel Richie, is black, making Richie biracial. Richie is light skinned and often passes as white, but she's very much aware of her roots. She told Complex that, while she herself hasn't been a target of racism, she's seen just how pervasive racial discrimination can be. Sofia Richie dreamed of starting her own fashion line since she was a little girl. She finally achieved her dream, announcing her label, Sofia Stone, in April It came easily and I knew all the little things I wanted and didn't want.
Her parents, Lionel Richie and his then-wife Brenda Harvey, knew Nicole's biological parents, who were incapable of providing for her financially. She went to live with and be cared for by the Richies, and when Nicole was 9, she was legally adopted. Musician Trace Cyrus was adopted by country music star Billy Ray Cyrus, who is the biological father of singer and performer Miley Cyrus and their other siblings. After Trace was adopted, they changed his name from Neil Timothy Helson.
Bill Clinton 's father died in a car accident before the future president was born, famously, in Hope, Arkansas. His mother, in an effort to find a way to support her son, left him with her parents while she went to New Orleans to study nursing.
She returned years later, married to Roger Clinton Sr. Nelson Mandela, the late former president of South Africa, was born into the Thembu tribe and adopted by a "high-ranking Thembu regent" after his father died, when the young Mandela was 9.
Deborah Harry was just a few months old when her parents adopted her. When she was 4, they explained to the future Blondie frontwoman that she wasn't biologically related to them.
She's been open about her struggles with the fact that she was adopted, and some say that her album Mother had something to do with her adoption, though she denies it. Sarah's birth mother, Judy, with whom she developed a friendly relationship as an adult, was 19 when Sarah was born. McLachlan, who had a close relationship with her parents, met her birth mother when she was 19 and away at art school.
In his twenties, he was depressed and suicidal when he heard her sing Angel , about the heroin overdose of Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin. Though he didn't know it at the time, McDaniels had been born to an unwed mother who had given him up, at which point he was placed in foster care with the McDaniels family.
Eventually, they adopted him. After hearing Angel , he took a deeper look at his life and career, and started writing his autobiography. While researching his early years, his mother, Bannah, told him the shocking secret: He'd been put up for adoption at 3 months old. Things fell into place for McDaniels, including why he looked different from the rest of the family. McDaniels has since been an advocate of laws that restore adopted adults' access to their original birth certificates.
Faith Hill is one of the most successful country artists of all time. She's also an adoptee. Her parents raised her and their two biological sons in Star, Mississippi. Hill grew up knowing that she had been adopted but was told that she was the product of her birth mother's affair with a married man, she told Billboard magazine.
That turned out to not be true.
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