Joel and Benji Madden promote the Tap Project on Larry King

http://www.tapproject.org/

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If so, follow me!!

I have just created a Twitter fanpage for Nicole Richie.

http://twitter.com/NRichienews

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Joel Madden & Harlow Winter Kate Madden

Joel Madden posted this latest picture of him and his Daughter, Harlow on his Twitter account. So cute!

It is definetly "Picture Of The Week!"

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Nicole Richie attends Rachel Zoe's charity event

Last night (March 26th) Rachel Zoe held a charity event at Decades Two in Los Angeles

Here are some flyers from the Rachel Zoe charity event ..Nicole Richie showed support to her former stylist and attended the charity event ..
Nicole Richie looked fabulous in a high waisted black shirt, matched with a white tank and accesorised with an orange scarf.

Click here to see a video from this event!!

I will post more pictures from this event soon!!

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Nicole Richie's: Must HAVE items!

Kitson and Nicole Richie have got together and discussed Nicole Richie's favourite things!

Click on the image to see the zoomed in high quality view.

Nicole Richie's favourite ..

Jeans:

Jet Trashed skinny jeans because "they are fitted like leggings and are really comfortable."

Perfume:

QUELQUES FLEURS Nicole Richie loves this perfume so much she states "I have been wearing the same perfume since 7th grade!"

Mascara:

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara. Nicole Richie may have expensive taste but her Mascara is suprisingly one of the most affordable and available on the high street!

T-shirts:

Alternative Burnout Tank. When it comes to Tee's Burnout is Nicole Richie's choice, Nicole states "I wear Burnout all the time."

Nicole Richie's exercise regime

Many people wonder how Nicole Richie stays so slim ?!

What is her exercise regime ?!

What exercise does she do during pregnancy !?

Well the answer is Pilates!

Nicole Richie was spotted on the weekend leaving her Pilates class in Los Angeles ..

Here is a very brief piece of information on Pilates ..

Pilates is a complete exercise method developed by its founder Joseph Pilates over the course of a lifetime dedicated to improving physical and mental health.

Pilates focuses on building your body's core strength and improving your posture through a series of low repetition low impact stretching and conditioning exercises.

By core strength, we are talking about your back, abdominal and pelvic muscles.

Through pilates, you will be able to develop these muscles without adding bulk, increasing your flexibility and agility and at the same time toning your stomach and thigh muscles.

Pilates goes far beyond your core muscles however and not only provides a complete body workout (you will be working muscles you didn't even know you had!), but also helps you develop an awareness of how your body works, helping your mind and body to work in harmony.

As it is a low impact exercise i see why it is great for Nicole Richie during her pregnancy.

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Nicole Richie running errands in Los Angeles

Yesterday afternoon (24th March) Nicole Richie was seen out and about in Los Angeles with her family and cute baby bump!

Nicole Richie was looking super casual, in simple straight legged jeans, a black vest top, a pretty yellow floral pring shrug cardigan and wore basic black flip flops.

Nicole Richie was carrying her BlackBerry Bold :)

Nicole Richie confirmed this week that she will be launching her own maternity fashion line.
"There will be a maternity line, a clothing line, shoes, belts, everything," Nicole told America's People magazine.

The reformed wild child says she's now happier than ever.

"I'm working a lot - I have great friends and a great family. All of my dreams are coming true," she said.

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Nicole Richie's candid pics from filming the TV show Chuck

Nicole Richie has provided us with these personal pictures via her website.

These pictures are from when she filmed an episode for the hit TV show 'Chuck'.

Nicole Richie says ..

"I was really nervous for this role because it required extremely challenging fight scenes.

They had a martial arts trainer on set, and we trained for a week before the fight scene.

When I finally started filming, it was such a rush. I loved it!

I found Zac Levi, the lead actor, to be extremely witty. And Yvonne Strahovski was so nice.

The entire cast and crew welcomed me with open arms.

I look forward to other opportunities like these."

More Pictures from the Sony and Richie Madden Childrens foundation event

Here are a few more pictures from the charity event held lastnight at the club MyHouse in Hollywood.

Lauren Conrad was there to show support for her friend Nicole Richie.

Nicole Richie is pictured below with her close personal friend Sophia Rossi who interestingly is a producer on hit TV shows The Hills and The City.Nicole Richie and Lauren Conrad, deep in conversation .. I wonder what they are discussing!?

Nicole Richie, Joel Madden and Benji Madden having fun on stage!

World Water Week

Here is Nicole Richie's latest blog post via http://www.nicolerichie.com/

" Hi Everyone,

As I said earlier, this week is World Water Week.

Over 4,000 children die every day from not having clean water. And it’s so simple to stop this.
Donating 1 dollar gives a child clean drinking water for 40 days.

Imagine what 10 dollars will do?

Go to TapProject.org to donate money or find out how you can get involved. "

Nicole Richie attends the Sony Cierge and The Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation Event

Lastnight (March 23rd) Nicole Richie, Joel Madden and Benji Madden attended an event held by Sony and their own foundation the Richie Madden children's foundation.

Nicole Richie looked stunning in a red and blue silk maxi dress, she kept the look relaxed with long wavy hair and simple make-up.

I am a fan of eyeliner and I love the way Nicole Richie's eyeliner is done, she always wears it quite heavy on top but plain on the bottom!

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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden at the Four Seasons

Nicole Richie and her beau Joel Madden were spotted grabbing lunch yesterday afternoon (march 23rd)

I definetly think Nicole Richie has that 'pregnancy glow' at the moment, she looks really pretty!

Nicole Richie wears bleach splased denim ..

Nicole Richie and her daughter were spotted out in LA on March 21st.

Nicole Richie was looking fresh and make up free, but her outfit is questionable ..

Are you loving Nicole Richie's bleach splashed denim skinny jeans?

I actually want a pair of acid wash jeans, but i'm unsure of the jeans Nicole Richie is wearing.

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Nicole Richie old holiday picture

Nicole Richie has provided us with a picture via her website www.nicolerichie.com

The picture is of her, Joel and Benji Madden enjoying some time in Annapolis, MD last summer.

I love the whole jumping shot, i want to try it!

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Nicole Richie attends 'An Evening of 20th Century Glamour'

Nicole Richie attends 'An Evening of 20th Century Glamour' on the 19th of March.

Nicole Richie wore a paisly print dress and carried her favourite snakeskin clutch of the moment and matched a pair of nude Christian Louboutin's to complete the outfit!

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Nicole Richie BlackBook magazine outtakes

Nicole Richie appears in the latest issue of BlackBook magazine.

Some say she is channeling her inner Lady GaGa .. others disagree and say she is way more pretty the GaGa!

What do you think?

As pictured above Nicole Richie wears a Louis Vuitton graffiti t-shirt matched with towering Sonia Rykiel Vinca Platform Sandals.

Nicole Richie works the 'difficult to pull off' harem pants in the above picture. The Harem sequin pants are by Ralph Lauren and the jackets is actually a Males jacket from the Dior Homme collection.
If you are loving Nicole Richie's supersized sunnies you may be interested to know they are by Chanel but for their exclusive collection, so be sure to check out Chanel boutiques to find these limited edition Chanel sunglasses.

In the image above Nicole Richie wears a number of her own rings from her House of Harlow 1960 collection which you can purchase at http://www.shopkitson.com/. Nicole Richie also wears Bijules NYC Pinkie Nail Ring and you can purchase them here!!

In the above photoshoot picture, Nicole Richie wears, Louis Vuitton graffiti leggings, Miu Miu sequined bomber jacket, which you can buy here!! And a pair of fabulous Christian Louboutin 'Very Galaxy' heels.

Nicole Richie's huge eye catching glitter necklace is by swarovski.

Here is the full interview with Nicole Richie from BlackBook magazine ..

There is no whir of helicopters or roar of black SUVs in pursuit when I meet Nicole Richie on a sultry winter day in the lounge of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. The room is marked by stillness; when Richie walks in, understated, unadorned and unaccompanied, the only eyebrow she raises is that of comedian Richard Lewis, who is camped out at a nearby table. “He’s always here,” says Richie, and she should know. The Chateau Marmont serves as an adjunct living room to her own home, in the nearby Hollywood Hills. She comes here often for the same reasons anyone sticks with a favorite haunt. “It’s private, the people are nice—and the food is good.”

Splashed, freeze-framed, wondered about and scrutinized for her style, Nicole Richie is an object of fascination, and for good reason. At 27, she is an icon of fashion, of pop and of the type of fame that spins like an acid-green carousel. The kind of struggles that other young women deal with in the privacy of their dorm rooms or first cheap apartments were, for her, scratched across the sky by the voyeuristic lenses of the paparazzi: breakups, make-ups, run-ins with the law and that famous time in which, her thin frame looked a whole lot thinner. But even as her life grows steady and her boat makes it past the pounding of the surf, we don’t turn away.

Her demeanor today matches her look—both are as sweet in intent as a face painter at Woodstock. It seems impossible that this is the same person who squealed in mock-disgust across five seasons of The Simple Life, the reality series that launched her career and then sent her orbiting the unfathomable known as Planet Hollywood. Wearing faded jeans, a long, soft gray cardigan and a casually wrapped multicolor scarf, Richie could be one of her beloved ’60s rock idols, like Joni, Janis or Jimi. Her blond hair is cut into charming straight bangs that she ruffles with her fingers as she talks.

It’s a far cry from the role she plays in the photos accompanying this story. Wearing fluorescent candy colors and a long wig, evoking the look of ’80s transgender model and Stephen Sprouse muse Teri Toye, Richie reveled in her glam punk transformation. As BlackBook’s muse, she not only resembled Toye, but through the magic of makeup, light and fashion—metallics, shoulder silhouettes, nods to Mugler and Alaïa—she immersed herself in an otherworldly character. “It’s something I could never get away with in real life,” Richie says, “so it’s fun to go on these shoots and really experiment.”

Clearly, Richie’s range of expression goes a lot closer to the cutting edge than she’s been given credit for in the past. “Entertaining is something that I wanted to do since I was 3 years old,” says Richie. She is talking about the job she dropped out of the University of Arizona for, at the age of 20, on a lark. Her best friend, someone called Paris Something, called her up and asked her. Why not? And so, we got to know Nicole and Nicole got to know us, as we thrilled in the weekly vision of two precious babes from Beverly Hills knee-deep in manure, Velveeta and yokels. But like professional wrestling, The Simple Life wasn’t real life. “Listen,” says Richie. “I watch television. I know that things have to be entertaining or else people aren’t going to watch it. The producers were very clear about the characters they wanted us to be. We were fine with it.” And so were we. More prissiness please! Aren’t we about ready for a tantrum?

Off-camera, her relationship with Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden is reassuringly solid. They adore their baby, one-year-old Harlow. And what ignites her most are her new jewelry line, the charities she and Joel are creating and her acting, which she works at the way everyone else does: one class and one audition at a time.
At the moment, though, there is no way to tell the larger story of her life without acknowledging the acreage of print dedicated to that other Nicole, the one displayed with dizzying frequency across the covers of publications like Star. When asked about how she deals with the waves of headlines, Richie displays no rancor. “We don’t allow tabloids in our house, so we really don’t know about anything unless it is serious.”

So, to address those checkout-line–inspired burning questions about Nicole Richie, in no particular order:

Are she and Paris Hilton still friends? “Yes. We’re friends. We’ve known each other since we were little.”

Are she and Joel Madden married or engaged? “I’ve never been engaged.”

Richie tells the story of the time one of her best friends read that Richie and Madden were planning a wedding and knew this to be false when the article stated that Nicole had decided upon a “Pretty in Pink” bachelorette party: “I hate pink!”

And what about that Star cover last December? Is she pregnant? Richie deflects the question, shaking her head and laughing. While she certainly doesn’t appear to be in the family way, two weeks after this interview, Richie confirmed that she and Madden are expecting their second child.

Today, she is slender, with the fine bones and delicate carriage of a dancer. Her complexion blooms with health, a sign that the palaver over Richie’s weight may now be fading into the past. Can Richie, say, finally go to the beach? She smiles. “The beach is probably a place I stay away from. I hate to say that because it sounds like I’m complaining and I’m really not. It’s not like I’m needing a beach. I’m fine.”

She thinks that all of that is “ridiculous,” and it is. Richie shrugs off the drama, saying, “My dad is an entertainer and he was the first person to say, Just blow it off. It’s just what happens.” Part of what protects Richie from the storm winds that blow just outside the door of her home is the environment in which she was raised: the protected space of a private school and close friends, a loving and high-profile family, and a buffer of wealth. To the charge that her success was somehow handed to her by the rarified facts of her life—she went to live with Lionel Richie and his wife, Brenda Harvey-Richie, when she was two, and was later adopted by them—Richie is sanguine. “One has nothing to do with the other. You have to work at it. If everything came easy to me then why am I not an Oscar winner, you know? Why don’t I have five Grammys, an Oscar and an American Music Award? I would skip everything else. I would have made it.”

Remove the cameras and she is very much as she would likely have been, anyway. Family is still her rock. A tight circle of lifelong friends forms her social nexus. “None of whom you would know,” says Richie. And, given what played out in the press with Paris Hilton, one is relieved to hear it.

Yes, we’ll always have Paris. At times, Richie’s relationship with Hilton, which only committed the crime of following the time-honored hilly path of close female friendships the world over, seemed like Richie’s first marriage. And we all know how well Hollywood marriages hold up under the scrutiny of the press. But that all feels so 2005. Richie’s strong connection with Madden, which may not have had the pleasure of an over-hyped, celebrity-strewn wedding, is a partnership of the truest kind, offering a firm patch of land that Richie seems to have needed.
And with her growing family, children are central to her mission, her vehicle for all the attention.

Together, Richie and Madden have created the Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation, which supports a wide array of initiatives aimed at helping both children (here and abroad) and mothers in need, including new moms who need help caring for their babies. Theirs is a hands-on approach that shies away from what Richie calls “just writing a check.” For example, the Foundation has set up a baby registry for mothers in Los Angeles so that donations can target specific items a family might need, such as cribs, strollers, high chairs, diapers and more. (Hey, Octomom, you know who to contact!) Says Richie, “The moms are happy because they’re getting exactly what they want, and you are happy because you see that you have definitely helped someone.”

Not all of the past is tedious to revisit for Richie, especially not the year 1960, which she has chosen as the focus of her new line of vintage-inspired jewelry and accessories, House of Harlow 1960. “I’ve always loved fashion,” she says. “And like any girl, especially in her 20s, you change. I experiment with fashion.”
Oversize sunglasses, scarves worn as headbands, cuffs, resorty prints and dresses, sandals so flat they seem barer than bare feet, just like the slip-ons she wears today—it’s all very ’60s. And despite the hours Richie spends trawling flea markets in places as far-flung as Seattle and Phuket, Thailand, or vintage shops in Los Angeles such as Resurrection on Melrose Avenue, her drive to design is not fueled by mere artifacts. Says Richie, who works with design partner Pascal Mouawad on the line, “I have been picking up pieces of jewelry since I was younger, so I have a whole collection to work off.” When asked why she has settled her gaze on the ’60s and ’70s, Richie lights up and says, “Music is my biggest inspiration. I love the music and the lifestyle and the clothes. I just love that time and wish I’d been around back then.”

What about the ’80s, a decade she does know firsthand? She laughs, recalling the less than cutting-edge looks her own wardrobe featured back then. “I don’t have a great relationship with the ’80s. I look back on what I was wearing then and I am so embarrassed.” Oh, Nicole, you were in grade school. Yes, she nods, and adds with perfect timing, “I blame my mom!”

Pursuing an acting career, she says, has become more of a priority than ever. The girl who once spoofed the tiresomely tireless Kelly Ripa in a brilliant parody of a Pantene ad is unequivocal in her hunger for more juicy parts. “Comedy would be my first choice. I love to laugh,” says Richie. She’s on the right track. Anyone who saw her guest-starring role last fall on the international espionage comedy, Chuck, got to see a side of Nicole that must be let out of the box more often. As Heather, the high school nemesis of agent Sarah Walker, Richie ass-kicked her way into one of the most delicious chick-fights in recent screen memory. Chuck and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz, late of The O.C., says of Richie’s appeal, “She interesting to watch, and has a dry wit—very acerbic. There are not a lot of girls who are pretty and funny. God doesn’t always give with both hands. Women root for her.”

It’s not for nothing that strangers hug her in public. “That’s a little intense,” she says. “I’m like, do I just hug back?” We can’t help caring about her, I explain. People know when there is a genuine heart beating under the hot sun of fame. “Whether there are cameras there or not,” Richie says with a warm press of the hand goodbye, “in my life, it is all the same.”

This was definetly one of my favourite magazine features with Nicole Richie, such a shame its only available in America. Im going to try get it somehow!

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Downtime

Some of you may be wondering why i haven't been blogging as much lately.

At the moment it is "essay period" for me!

I have tons of essays to do for university and i have exams coming up.

So please be patient with me, i will update as much as i can.

:)

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Nicole Richie on the cover of BlackBook Magazine

Nicole Richie is channeling her inner Lady GaGa for the April 2009 issue of BlackBook magazine and she works it well!

Nicole Richie is doing alot of greatly insane photoshoots lately from the images for ViVi magazine to the casual images in Glamour magazine to these latest pictures for BlackBook!

I am looking forward to seeing this entire issue.

I actually LOVE it!!

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