The NY Post is reporting that DJ AM and Nicole Richie broke up for the second time because Richie didn’t gain weight and stop partying as AM requested:

This was said to be the reason they broke up the first time, so it’s not surprising. Nicole Richie knew that she needed to gain some weight to save her relationship, and she still couldn’t do it. That reveals how much of a problem she has. She needs to check herself into a clinic. If she gained 20 pounds she would look so much better, and she needs to do it for her health.

Sky News quotes Richie’s dad as saying that she’s planning a wedding that he will be more than happy to pay for. He must not have heard the breakup news:

Richie will have to have a talk with her kind dad. Here she is shopping for shoes at Barneys on 5/19. Does she look healthy to you?

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Nicole Richie eventually addressed the rumor that she screened Paris Hilton’s sex tape “One Night in Paris” for friends at a party by stating that she would never watch porn:

Richie said earlier that she didn’t want to be friends with Paris once she got out of rehab, because she decided to take “certain people out of my life.”

Obviously there’s still a lot of bad feelings between these two and we doubt they’ll make up.

Here’s Nicole giving her mom flowers for Mother’s Day. She doesn’t have to make some dumb excuse about how her present was “stolen” because she actually remembered to get her mother something.

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Nicole Richie is an obvious perfectionist about her body. She starves herself thin, and has admitted wanting to change her nose:

This may be her way of letting the press know that she’s about to undergo plastic surgery. Richie was photographed outside a plastic surgeon’s office on May 9th.

She needs to see a therapist and work out her issues. From what I learned from the handful of college-level psychology courses I attended while nursing a hangover, Richie suffers from body dysmorphic disorder:

Meanwhile Richie has said that she’s not friends with Paris Hilton anymore because she’s just too good for her:

Sounds like a junior-high level assessment of friendship.

Nicole looks like she has gained a little bit of essential weight. In these pictures of her shilling for Sprint at the E3 convention on Wednesday she looks slightly more healthy. Maybe her confession to Vanity Fair about being too thin helped her to eat a little bit.

Liz Smith mentions in her column in the NY Post today that the photos that accompany Nicole Richie’s interview in Vanity Fair were retouched to make her look healthy:

Nicole Richie became famous as soon as she started showing up for tons of events, and that just happened to coincide with her weight loss, probably because she had higher self esteem. While the ideal for slenderness in Hollywood is out of bounds and harmful to young women, I don’t think that Richie’s stardom can be attributed to her stick thin appearance. It is obviously unhealthy and not a good role model for anyone of course.

You can see the retouching in the photos below. In a picture of RIchie wearing underwear and kissing herself in the mirror, her butt looks a little too round to be real. Her face also looks less deathly.

The red string bracelet that Richie wears on her right wrist may not be a sign of anorexic pride that it can also stand for. (Some images are shown flipped, and the bracelet is really on her right hand.) It is from Kitson and is adorned with a gold hamsa, a protective jewish symbol. It’s just, uh, a coincidence that anorexics also wear red string bracelets on their right wrists while Kabbalah followers wear them on their left wrists.

Richie admits in her Vanity Fair interview that she’s too thin and that she’s getting help from a doctor and a nutritionist.

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Nicole Richie admits she’s thin in an upcoming interview for Vanity Fair, and confesses that she has seen a doctor and a nutritionist about it:

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About two weeks ago, Richie said she realized she was thin, but was nonchalant about it.

Richie wears a red string bracelet on her right hand, a symbol of anorexic pride. It seems like she’s perfectly aware that she doesn’t eat but is in denial about how severe it is and won’t admit it outright to the press. At least she’s trying to get help, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work and therapy.

In related news, there is a picture of supposed coke residue after Nicole Richie left a bathroom stall, but the evidence is unconvincing and seems fabricated.

Here she is in La Quinta, CA at a Coachella Party. We realize that Taryn Manning is holding a little pipe in one of the pictures since everyone has pointed this out. They’ve also noticed that Nicole seems to have lost some her hair. Hair loss is a sign of anorexia.

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Younger members of the in crowd picked up lots of swag at the “Desert Oasis” Coachella invite-only party held in La Quinta, California on Saturday at Frank Sinatra’s Twin Palms estate:

Hopefully Nicole Richie got some free sunglasses. The ones she wore to the party look like they came from a joke shop.

Pictured attendees include Taryn Manning, Nicole Richie, Nicky Hilton, Kevin Connelly, Scott Speedman, Busy Phillipps, Alex Nesic, and Melissa Sagemiller.

Nicole Richie recently redesigned her engagement ring from AM from their first go-around, preserving the stone to use in a new setting. The couple is said to be making it official this July:

That sounds romantic, although we have to disagree that Nicole has put on weight. The couple broke up in December, 2005, and reconciled about two months ago.

Richie must be feeling particularly tender toward AM. He is recovering from “follow-up” work for his 2003 gastric bypass surgery, widely rumored to be plastic surgery to remove excess skin.

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Nicole Richie says that she realizes she’s thin, but still shows how out of touch with reality she is when she attributes her weight loss to exercise:

The girl can’t do cardio because she’ll collapse! She needs to gain at least 20 pounds. Here’s Nicole getting her nails done. She’s still wearing the red bracelet on her right hand. Kabbalah followers wear it on their left hand, but a red string on the right hand is a sign of anorexic pride.

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Nicole Richie is redesigning the engagement ring given to her by DJ AM in February, 2005 for their first engagement. The couple broke up in December, 2005, and reconciled six weeks ago. Richie will save AM money by using the stone from her original ring in a new setting. Apparently she’s “superstitious,” but we just think she’s pushing AM into another engagement and doesn’t want to wait for him to get her a new ring:

“Unoffically engaged” is like being a “little bit pregnant” – it doesn’t exist except in the minds of people who really want to make it happen.

Here are AM and Richie in NY City on April 13th. Remember how we said AM was surprisingly hot? Yeah, we take it back.

Guess the text messages that Paris sent Nicole in a bid to reconcile with her ex friend were just “words that she wrote” because Paris lost her patience with Nicole and has talked a bunch of trash about her:

Paris – your sister’s name is Nicky. It’s very similar to Nicole and all, but they’re different people.

Also, speaking of letting fame get to your head – what is up with this video of you taking your own picture over and over again?