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Nicole Richie, Joel Madden and their baby Harlow, who will be four months old in a few days, appear in a new photo spread in Harper’s Bazaar. It features Joel and Nicole in couture looking privileged along with Harlow in her own cute clothing. Nicole’s dad pop singer Lionel Richie also appears, looking very much the proud Grandfather. The shoot reminds me of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s first baby spread in People with more focus on the newborn and less haughty expressions.
Extra TV has details of the accompanying interview with Nicole, and she’s outspoken about her love for her daughter and the way Harlow has changed her life and her circle of friends. She says that Joel is very helpful with the baby and changes more diapers than she does:
Richie tells “Extra” that she is the first in her circle of friends to have a baby. She elaborated, “I feel like my group of five to ten friends, they really love her, like she’s theirs… my friends never go outside for smoke breaks anymore, they don’t curse, they are definitely more demure. It’s actually been really interesting.”
As for how new dad and fiancé Joel Madden handles diaper duty, Richie admitted, “Joel actually changes more diapers than I do… It’s his time with her. He sings to her… he laughs with her, plays with her. It’s amazing.” Richie revealed that her father, Lionel, hasn’t offered her any parenting advice, but that “he comes from a father standpoint. He gives Joel a lot of advice.”
[From ExtraTV.com]
Nicole also says that she finds the paparazzi scary and doesn’t want that kind of circus around her daughter. She calls herself “the luckiest girl alive” and says she has “nothing to complain about.”
Nicole and Joel got some slight heat for making appearances at events and parties in the month after their daughter’s birth. That was during the Grammy events, though, and it was important that Joel attend some parties for his job. They seemed to have reigned it in though, and although they still go out it’s not like they’re partying it up every weekend. We reported a story from Star earlier in the week that speculated that “Nicole is torn between being a mommy and being a party girl” and wanted some freedom but didn’t want to leave her baby.
Nicole certainly seems like a great mom. Compare her actions to the way that Jennifer Lopez is behaving – talking about competing in a triathalon to make her babies proud and heading out to every event to show the world how well her fitness program is working.
Doesn’t Harlow look like she has so much personality already? I love her expressions, she’s a little weisenheimer you can tell.
These photos are from Harper’s Bazaar’s website, where there are many more.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Babies, Joel Madden, Lionel Richie, Nicole Richie
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Oh bless Lionel! These photos are actually really sweet, especially the first one. I hope their relationship lasts.
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Nicole looks fantastic–slim, but healthy. I hope that she stays that way, not just for her daughter but for herself.
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I wonder how much money she made.
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that Picture with Lionel is so cute! What a happy grandpa!
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That is one adorable little baby. She actually has some character in her face, unlike some of the formless blobs at that age. She just looks like she’s planning something mischievous.
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They all look fantastic. I’ve always loved Nicole and her sarcastic sense of humor. She’s really very intelligent. Shes looks great, has a great head on her shoulders, is a good mom, and a very talented pianist and musician.
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I’m just gonna say it. Harlow is one cute cute baby and anyone who doesn’t think so can suck it. LOL
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Joel cleans up nice!
I love the way Harlow is looking at him in the first one, lol.
Nicole looks gorgeous.
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she is so cute i just love her
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I really love their little family. Nic & Joel are proff positive that people really can & do grow up when they have a baby. Not everyone *coughBritcough* but it can & does happen
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Love the expression on baby Harlow’s face in the first pic. She looks like a real sweetie. Oh and Joel cleans up good.
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CB and her minions need to put down the pipe.
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Que?
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please don’t compare Nicole and Joel to JLo and Skeletor
.There couldn’t be a faker couple in hollywood than those two.I want to puke every time she says she’s changed from her Bennifer days and likes privacy now.She couldn’t wait to pimp her kids out and put them on a reality show.Nic and joel are more classier and more real
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They all look amazing. The baby is very cute! She looks like Joel.
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Damn! When did Joel get so hot? I mean, I always thought he was cute, but wow! and Nicole looks stunning! What a sweet family. I am rooting for them!
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When he decided to stop shaving his head, that’s when.
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LOL – I think Harlow’s expression says “Why is he so blinking proud of that song? It’s almost as mawkish as Chris deBurgh!”
I demand a forum be set up specifically to caption Harlow’s expressions
And Syko… How DARE you call a baby a blob!!! You should go back to half-smiling at press conferences, manipulating the world, stealing husbands and amassing your Benneton Sylvanian Families kit
(Sorry, couldn’t resist – I am of course joking
Syko would never half-smile at a press conference 
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hey, if little harlow has reformed nicole and joel, and nicole’s five to ten close friends, maybe harlow’s little baby coos and smiles will slowly reform all of hollywood. no more cooch flashing bad girls smoking and doing drugs and cussing. they’ll come into harlow’s presence and be transformed.
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I would never appear at the press conference at all, but would send my minions to appear on my behalf.
As for stealing husbands – nah. I might borrow him, try him on for size, but I don’t really want one for keeps. Been there, done that.
I might manipulate the world, though. Sounds fun!
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Anyone ever wonder if perhaps Lionel is really Nicole’s biological dad, and “adopted” her because he didn’t want his wife to find out? She looks so much like Lionel, in the same way that Harlow looks so much like Joel.
Just saying.
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this is ONE FUGLY KID !
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not a cute kid
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