Star: Nicole Richie is 88 pounds, anorexic & living on sunflower seeds

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I’ve grown to hate all of the body-shaming and concern-trolling of celebrity bodies from the tabloids. It used to be sort of fun – “Who has implants?” and “Who got budget lipo?” But at some point, it really did take a turn and now some of the tabloid stories are just outright nasty. Take this week’s Star cover, featuring a 2006 photo of Nicole Richie. Star decided to concern-troll Nicole about her body because…? They heard she’s eating a lot of sunflower seeds these days.

Nicole Richie is back to skinny. The reality star turned designer has dropped down to 88 pounds, according to Star magazine, which was her weight in 2006 when she memorably showed off a bony frame as she jogged on a beach in a bikini.

And there’s proof in pictures: On Tuesday the 32-year-old showed off a gaunt face with a heavily defined jaw bone as she attended Antonio Berardi’s dinner in Beverly Hills. Star claimed the daughter of Lionel Richie is ‘anorexic again.’

She has reportedly been living on a diet of sunflower seeds, celery and juices. The LA native also allegedly uses chewing gum to stave off hunger pains.

Part of the problem Star explained, might be that husband Joel Madden is often away for work. The musician has been a coach on The Voice in Australia.

‘Joel has always tried to keep tight tabs on her diet,’ the source added. ‘But since he’s gone so often, no one’s ever really sure how much she’s eating anymore. He is extremely worried about her. He tells her that she needs to focus on her health for the sake of the children, because they need their mother. When Joel confronts her on how she needs to ingest more nutrients, she says the juices give her all she needs.’

But a friend tells MailOnline the Fashion Star judge is ‘healthy.’ The source added: ‘This is completely false, she is not anorexic.’

[From The Mail]

The Star story seems to be mostly about Nicole’s failing marriage to Joel Madden which… I mean, sure, I’ll buy that. Make the cover story about her marriage troubles then, go wild. But let me guess… Star didn’t think “Nicole and Joel’s marriage is falling apart because he’s working in Australia all the time these days” would be a good enough cover story. And they were right. That would have been a non-event cover story. So they decided to hype it with some body image drama. Tedious.

Here’s another reason I’m not buying Star’s story – I’m including our most recent photos of Nicole, from November 2013. She looks really good in these pics, right? I’ll admit that I sometimes think she’s too slender for her own good, but in these photos, she looks great. She got implants too, which make her look more “filled out” than she used to.

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Photos courtesy of WENN.

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  1. Sisi says:

    Yeah can’t say I see a dramatic change in her appearance compared to last years Golden Globes for instance. Nonstory.

    • Florc says:

      Agreed. She’s been slender for ages now. If someone smoothed out her ribcage so we didn’t see the bones it woud be a different story, but I doubt that. I’m more shocked the rag didn’t publish their own shopped photos of her with more bones.

    • littlestar says:

      I agree too. And how shady and misleading of Star to use photos of Nicole from almost a decade ago! Florc is right, Nicole has been slender for a long time. There was a point in 05/06 where I do think she was battling an eating disorder but I believe she beat it. And she probably stays on the thinner side now to look good in clothes/photos.

  2. Kim1 says:

    Star is disgusting its so obvious they photoshopped the pic of her in white dress.As for other pic it looks like me with no makeup after a long ,stressful day.
    BTW that story about Robin Roberts being engaged has already been debunked

  3. Anais says:

    Am I nuts or does it look like she has a baby stuffed in that shopping bag?

    • Kim1 says:

      Do you mean her daughter’s baby Doll?

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      No! I see its little feet! Lol

    • ccrot says:

      I think she’s coming from the pool. It explains the plastered down hair, no make up and huge bag with the doll tucked into the top. Swimming with kids and schlepping all there stuff around makes ANYONE look a little worse for wear!

  4. Secret Squirrel says:

    She has anorexia again??? I’m pretty sure anorexia isn’t a virus that comes and goes. Once you have it, you battle it for life. The degree that it impacts your life is the only variance.

    She’s still too thin in the more recent pics, but not as bad as 2006. However I would hate to see her get that bad again before she does something about it.

    • Viv says:

      This. It is a disorder that you battle for life. No matter how well you are, the seed may be there. I am a little shocked at myself how much I have gotten used to the overly slender physiques of celebrities. No shading, but Richie and Jolie are alarmingly skinny. There are people who have trouble putting on weight, but we know they are not among them. You miraculously seem to become more talented in Hollywood the thinner you are. They know it and they live accordingly. Try find a celebrity assistant without a client driving themselves silly dieting. They just don’t like to admit it. Richie is notorious for fat-shaming and I don’t believe for a second that she was happy with her body when she had a healthier weight. She looked great after baby, just as Rchel Zoe looked so much better while pregnant. Jolie, too, was beautiful with a fuller figure and when pregnant.

  5. chloe says:

    Wow she looks great in these photos, she’s one of the few reality stars that doesn’t annoy me because she’s made something out her life.

  6. blue marie says:

    Other than when she was on that show with Paris, she’s always been about this thin. She’s just a smaller girl. I’m kind of jealous of how she looks in that white dress, beautiful. That lead photo is just a bad photo, shame on Star..

    • Meaghan says:

      She is NOT naturally thin, and has NOT always been this skinny. She lost all the weight with a combonation of drugs and anorexia, both of which she got help for. However, she has been looking thinner and thinner lately. And you can see the hair loss and bald patches due to her anorexia. She isn’t as bad as she was in 2006, I will admit, but she is slowly getting that skinny again. Just looking at the bones on her neck, I feel like I must be seeing something different then what everyone else is looking at, because that does not look like a ‘normal and healthy’ body. If you were to see her in real life, not on a magazine you would agree (I saw her a few months back in NYC and she looked so frail and skinny it was NOT attractive)

      • blue marie says:

        Honestly before that damn reality show I didn’t know who she was, but since it seems to me that that is her normal size? Now I remember the rumors of anorexia, (didn’t Rachel Zoe tell her to stop eating or something?) but haven’t paid the closest attention to her over the years. But every photo I’ve seen has been about this size? I could be wrong though.. (I have been before)

  7. Just So says:

    Not buying it. 88 lbs seems to be the default weight for “too thin” and “anorexic” in these stories, especially where Nicole is concerned, who everyone knows is small anyway. It’s like 90-something lbs wouldn’t be concerning enough, and less than 88 isn’t believable–or would be too obvious to everyone. 88 is the magic “is she or isn’t she” number.

    Or maybe I’m just cynical.

    • Kim1 says:

      You are right.For Angelina their default weight is 95 lbs.It varies for celebs.

    • Esmom says:

      Cynical? Yes. Correct? Also yes. So much weight (no pun intended) given to the actual number, it’s gross.

    • Esmom says:

      Its’ been a crappy morning, thanks for my first laugh of the day as I scrolled through the headlines. I know it’s sad if it’s true (I’m not convinced myself) but your headline just reads so damn funny.

  8. Leah says:

    She doesn’t look any different from what she usually look like.

  9. Dani2 says:

    Doesn’t look much different from how she usually looks to me. Star is really reaching for the stars with this one.

  10. xxx says:

    I’m calling drug abuse on this one. Looks exactly the same as when she was arrested strung out on pills/drugs driving on the opposite side of the road years back.

  11. Honeybea says:

    she definitely could add a few pounds but still looks healthy to me. I think these stories could do more harm than good if she sees them. I’ve been through some body issues in the past and everytime someone said “You are tooo skinny!” or “please put on some weight”..I saw these comments as a compliment and it drove me to lose more so that that people could continue to say these things to me. Just leave the concern for the people that genuinely care for her or you actually drive the obsession.

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  13. Upandgoing says:

    This seems like a horrible PR stunt. They anounce she is “worryingly thin” along with her recipe for doing such (living on juices, sunflower seeds, celery). It’s as if they were telling you how thin (and horribly great) she looks and giving instructions to any takers on how to achieve it. Then they get someone to say she’s healthy, someone else to say she is not… And she on demand again! All of a sudden she is in every tabloid, maybe People will get a first account scoop on how she is simply amazing, doing fine while shrinking away. I find it tasteless and wish these non stories would go away. What happened to people making the news because of something worth the coverage?

  14. LadyJane says:

    I think our society is so used to overweight people, that thin people freak us out a bit. She IS thin, but she isn’t scary looking.

  15. TheOriginalKitten says:

    I lived on sunflower seeds for a year, until I started getting mice in my lil’ studio apartment (they LOVE the shells!). David’s Sunflower Seeds used to make honey-roasted seeds that were so amazing, but they don’t make them anymore 🙁

    Nicole looks like she has for the past few years to me. I do suspect that she has an ED, but she seems to be managing it.

  16. loveisthecoal says:

    She looks fine to me. I think she has kind of a bony sternum area, which can make her look thinner than she is. I mean she is thin, no doubt, but she certainly doesn’t look worryingly thin.

  17. GeeMoney says:

    Yawn

  18. Cece says:

    No, she really is very thin.Thinking about 10 lbs would nicely fill her out,balance the implants,make her look more curvey and healthy. I really think everyone has put too much pressure on her husband to nurse/ babysit/feed her since they met. She apparently has it all,about as good as it gets. Loving,supportive father,family,beautiful children & husband. Gorgeous home and great work she loves. Wow, my life sucks!!!!

  19. Mitch Buchanan Rocks! says:

    In the really bad star photo she looks like Uma Thurman.

  20. Samtha says:

    If she is struggling with an ED, having it plastered all over a tabloid won’t help.

  21. Lisa says:

    JAWBONE?!? NO!! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!

    She looks a wee bit haggard in the cover picture, but of course they’ll choose the worst one. 88 lbs, I doubt.

    • idk says:

      Just as you can use photoshop to make someone look better, you can also use photoshop to make someone look worse.

  22. Happy21 says:

    Honestly, I don’t think in recent years she hasn’t had some type of eating disorder. I think that she probably eats very little. She wears the most awesome clothes, most of which you have to be very petite to fit into.

    I don’t, however, think that this story is accurate. I don’t think they know what they are talking about and I don’t think that her having an eating disorder is anything new. I just think she’s been better about hiding it and maybe not being SO obsessed with her weight but I definitely think she has a problem.

  23. Kelly says:

    Skinny shaming is the new fat shaming. It’s like it’s illegal to be skinny suddenly. So what if she’s thin??
    Some women are naturally slim and when under pressure and stress tend to lose weight even more, just nerves. Sure it’s not healthy, but shaming their appearance is horrible.
    Would you shame a woman for gaining 15 pounds from comfort eating? No, you’d “sympathize”. Why can’t these media bullsheit outlets do just that. Sympathize and back the fck off.

  24. Jaana says:

    i read a blind item that fit this story perfectly. Nicole is still living it up, she just does it privately now.

  25. Snowpea says:

    Um…are we all seeing the same picture?!

    For the love of god…she looks MINISCULE to me! And since the camera adds ten pounds, can you imagine what she looks like in real life?

    Having said that, I love NR. She seems like a lovely girl, a great mum and a kind person to boot.

  26. Lilo says:

    The implants make her look even thinner, in my opinion. She is tiny, small and petite. It’s a thin line between her normal weight and looking starved, I bet she loses 3 pounds and looks scary thin. On another person the same 3 pounds would never be that obvious.

  27. Zwella Ingrid says:

    You know how you just start liking some celebrities, and you really don’t have a lot of reason? I like her, and I think it is because I view her as having overcome the odds to break away from the party lifestyle, into a life with her family — something more meaningful. She seems to love her children and husband, and she has been successful with her business ventures, so it makes me want to pull for her. It seemed like she decided to grow up and ditch the shallow lifestyle.
    I think she is thinner than she should be, to be healthy, but that holds true for most all of Hollywood. Our idea of what weight should be has been so skewed by what Hollywood tells us. I guess I just hope that her marriage and family will hold together, and that she will be able to be happy. I would like to see her beat the odds.

  28. Dorothy says:

    Started when she got used by Paltrow and trainer Tracy about a year ago and is true and sad. Nicole has overcome so much and is lovely talented and a good Mom. Goop just needed her to get back in with LA crowd, and knowing and not caring of Nicole’s painful history she encouraged her to buddy up with her and Tracy for Goop’s image, and got Nicole all body obsessed again in the process. This is just another woman left in Gwyneth’s ruthless wake. Nicole will be fine, she is strong and an intervention is being planned by her family.

    • BaronessOrczy says:

      As a commoner, Nicole is one of the few celebrities I actually like. Admittedly, I know nothing about her life outside of her FABULOUS sense of style and tabloid fodder, but I wish her well.

      The Daily Mail had a great article lambasting Tracey Anderson.