Nicole Richie: I’m No Role Model

[DevilDoll2025]

Nicole Richie has been mum about rumors that she’s expecting a child with her boyfriend of six months, Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.

But in the new issue of Nylon magazine, every other topic is decidedly on limits as Richie, 25, opens up about her celebrity status, her drug past and whether she’s a role model.

“I don’t have a clue why I’m famous,” Richie tells the magazine, blaming the media for her omnipresence. “I didn’t make myself famous…You’re doing it. I think people just want to say, ‘Oh, she doesn’t have a job she doesn’t do anything.’ They get off on that. But I do have a job, like everyone else.”

In 2003, Richie entered rehab following a heroin-possession arrest. “When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge,” she says in the interview. “You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.”

Despite a “chaotic” childhood in which she says her parents gave her too much freedom, Richie does not regret past mistakes. As for setting an example for the one million fans that tune into The Simple Life every week, “I don’t walk around pretending that I’m perfect, so I don’t think anyone should hold me to that,” she says. “The dangerous thing is that there are 16 -, 17 -, 18 –year-olds that people consider to be role models. I’m so happy I wasn’t famous back then…You’d think I was the f—king devil.”



Source Us Weekly

[Sweetie]

I like her black outfit.
I would be a role model if I were famous either. I would be bad!

[yoyoma]

She is so full of vile!
Another waste of space. I would actually will love to know the kind of "work"
she does excluding the pathetic reality show she was on.

[Sweetie]

^ Well she did write a book.

[cataroo]

She just NOW figured that out??? What an idiot...

[Lily]

That's like saying:

Samuel L. Jackson: I'm Black.

[darksithbunny]

“When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge,” she says in the interview. “You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.”

WTF?

[Lily]

^LOL wow, that's deep

[MarieAntoinette]

Look at her dead , vacant eyes in these pictures. Whatever she has done to her body sure drained the life out of her.

[Aella]

I have to say, she doesn't look any different from the junkies that hang out around the area I usually go out to. Most of them have shoes too! And better hair.

Having said that, it's nice she has a minimum of self-awareness.

[waikiki]

She, she do had too much freedom. Her parents should have bitchslaped her back into reality giving her some food so she stopped playing the skanky just for fun.

But what is her job???

PS: don't worry Nicole, none ever thought for a sec you're a role model. Actually, none ever thought seriously about you for a second.

[Palermo]

you sure the hell aren't sister

[Beth]

she looks gorgeous in those photos.

[Raspberry gashes]

Shes ugly as hell to me, but she just became likeable for a second when she admitted she doesn't know why she's famous.

[ducki]

I don't get how people can find her anything but ass-fugly. She is fugly, not only by Hollywood-standards. If she was a regular person on the street, I'd think she's fugly. She looks like a white fugly version of Star Jones.