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Is Nicole Richie Too Skinny?
There is a great debate going on in Hollywood
and everywhere else U.S.A. Celebrities are being scrutinized
more than ever. Make that female celebrities:) And in this
ever growing fish bowl is the new celebrity target - Nicole
Richie.
In every celebrity magazine, every week, is
a picture of Richie - looking quite thin - and bouncing about
town in a new designer outfit and handbag that seems to be
a bit bigger than she is:)
It was even rumored that her dramatic weight
loss and refusal to get help for it was the source of the
tragic:) break-up between her and her longtime friend Paris
Hilton.
But to be fair - Nicole Richie has seriously
transformed her life. She is the adopted daughter of a very
public and tumultuous divorced couple - Lionel and Brenda
Richie. Probably the initial source of many of her emotional
troubles.
She battled her way back from a very tough alcohol
and drug addiction through rehab and lots of family and
individual
therapy.
She landed a great reality television gig as
Paris Hilton's partner in crime on The Simple Life,
and now she is getting married to fiance DJ AM. And
appears to be very happy in that relationship.
Okay that sounds great - but isn't she just
too skinny?
While it is true that Nicole Richie looked
unhealthy early on in The Simple Life and in other celebrity
pictures around that time - I wouldn't necessarily have called
her chubby. Instead I would say, she looked bloated. Unhealthy
from all of the poisons she was ingesting, Richie has said
in the past (such as on the Oprah show) that she had been
on an escalating path of alcohol and drug abuse since the
age of 13.
When coming clean - it is very possible that
Richie began an extremely disciplined exercise and diet regime
to reclaim her health and control her life. And then went
- overboard.
Many times people who suffer from an addiction
of some kind - alcohol, drugs, overeating, gambling etc.,
will substitute that vice for another intense activity, addiction,
or obsession. That is why it is not recommended for people
who are in a 12-step program to begin dating each other. Instead
of dealing with themselves, they just substitute the energy
spent on getting drunk or high on the new relationship. And
the relationship becomes too intense, too fast, and fizzles
out quickly because there was no real foundation.
Nicole Richie may have simply substituted
years of addiction
with the compulsion to control her life and feelings in other
ways, and controlling her intake of food is one way she may
have chosen to control her life. Of course this behavior can
easily manifest itself into a full-blown eating
disorder, because it is based on the principle of "control"
where these disorders usually begin.
The Bottom Line?
Well, the bottom line is that although she may
have her reasons - Nicole Richie is way too thin -
too skinny - much too petite. Hopefully, in spite of all the
media attention to her weight - she will get the "real" kind
of help and attention she needs from her friends and family,
as well as direction from a mental health professional who
can help her redirect her energy into more positive avenues.
Good luck Nicole!
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About the Author:
Lisa Angelettie, M.S.W., is a psychotherapist, author, and
an online advice expert. She has been helping people make
smarter life choices since 1998. Visit her for Advice
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