Nicole Richie says it’s a not-so-simple life: you “can’t win” in the public eye when you’re famous. Here’s how she responded to the eating disorder accusations.
In the most recent issue of Marie Claire, Nicole Richie addresses the eating disorder rumors that have haunted her since her 2006 weight loss during the short-lived reality show The Simple Life with former BFF Paris Hilton.
“I felt it was a little unfair to say someone has an eating disorder when they don’t. It’s extremely insulting and irresponsible. An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease,” she told the mag. “When I was heavier, everyone said I was too heavy. You can’t win in the public eye and I find it really hard.”
Richie was still on the reality show when The New York Post ran a blind item claiming a Hollywood starlet had gastric bypass to lose weight and then had it reversed to be able to put weight back on. Her reps told People it “wasn’t Nicole” and that “There are a ton of ‘Hollywood starlets.”
However, right after her weight loss in December 2006, Dr John Di Saia, a plastic surgeon and blogger at Truth in Plastic Surgery, called out Richie for having had new implants — perhaps to replace the cleavage she lost with her weight — and said the star was shopping a nose job.
Saia said the drastic changes pointed to body dysmorphic disorder: “At least one surgeon by reports considered her a poor risk and declined her surgery. There is talk about body dysmorphic disorder. She has had serious weight fluctuations.”
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