Nicole Richie: A Hungry, Healthy Mommy!

Sexy mama: Motherhood gives Nicole Richie's figure a boost

Nicole Richie looked just swell as she showed off her post-baby figure at the launch of her fiance's new clothing range.
Motherhood has clearly given the 26-year-old's formerly skinny figure a boost - she looked radiant in a tight sliver dress at the launch party for DCMA Collective in Los Angeles on Friday night.

The Simple Life star was supporting fiance Joel Madden, 29, who has just launched his first clothing line with his twin brother Benji.

And keeping it all in the family, Good Charlotte star Benji, brought along his new girlfriend - Paris Hilton, Nicole's best friend since childhood and her Simple Life co-star.

Nicole, who wore an "H" pendant around her neck, gave birth to Harlow Winter Kate Madden on January 11 but already looks toned enough to wear the most unforgiving material.

During recent years she has been through several figure transformations - from slender but curvy in the early series of The Simple Life to being painfully thin before her pregnancy.

She now appears to be in her element with her curvy but petite figure. But, like Christina Aguilera, who gave birth on the same day as Nicole, her cleavage has been given a welcome boost by motherhood.

Rocker Joel Madden, Celebutante Nicole Richie And Newborn Harlow Winter???

In his latest blog entry, White rocker Joel Madden revealed that his newborn daughter is , "...finally home with my beautiful girlfriend."

He also confirmed that the baby's name is Harlow Winter. Madden said: "She is 19 inches long and looks so much like her mom its crazy." That would be Nicole Richie, "The Simple Life" star, adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, niece of Sheila E and BFF of Paris Hilton.

Three Bros talks about the former Girls Gone Wild paparazzi favorite with Nicole and Paris's attorney Shaun Chapman Holley:

QUICKIE: IT TAKES JAIL AND A BABY FOR NICOLE RICHIE TO LOOK LIKE THIS?

Nicole "Bumps and a lump" Richie looks 100% better these days. Maybe "The Simple Life" biracial star is actually starting to grow-up. Granddaddy-to-be Lionel Richie must be relieved that those days of drugs, booze and drama are over... for now anyway!

IT'S COUNTY JAIL FOR NICOLE RITCHIE

Maybe girls just want to have fun, but now they're doing jail time.

Nicole Richie has told authorities through her attorney that she intends to serve her 90-hour sentence in Los Angeles County jail rather than a "pay to stay" program in a municipal lockup.

Richie was arrested Dec. 11 by California Highway Patrol officers after driving the wrong way on the 134 Freeway in Burbank. Officers said they found her stopped in the carpool lane. She told officers she had smoked weed and taken the painkiller Vicodin. She had been previously arrested on suspicion of possessing heroin and spent time in rehabilitation.

Her gal pal and former "Simple Life" co-star Paris Hilton recently spent her time behind bars.
Richie has until Sept. 28 to begin serving her time.

NICOLE RICHIE IN JAIL PREGNANT, NOW THAT'S A GHETTO SISTA'

If there was ever any question how 'straight up ghetto' Nicole Richie is, look no further than her interview today with Diane Sawyer. See how casual she (with boyfriend rocker Joel Maden in tow) talks about drinking and driving, taking drugs while pregnant and taking this 'dis functional road show' to jail. Excuse me, but she is just a little too "welfare momma comfortable" about the whole situation. Catch the rest of the interview tomorrow (Friday) on Good Morning America and ABC's 20/20. Daddy Lionel Richie comment on being a granddad, "Now you'll experience all the things I have gone through ..." Message to Lionel, I don't really think you want your grand baby to be a drug addicted, alcoholic, unwed momma. But if so ... LA County Jail wants your family head count for Thanksgiving Dinner![d]

BREAKING NEWS: NICOLE RICHIE PLEADS NO CONTEST TO DUI, PARIS ADVISES HER ON HOW TO SURVIVE BEING ON LOCKDOWN!

With Joel Madden on her arm and her Black attorney doing all the talking, Nicole Richie arrived at the Glendale, California court house this morning wearing a black dress and dark shades, Nicole plead today to driving under the influence for a second time.

Get ready for another Paris Hilton circus Sheriff Lee Baca.

With a longer probation period, heavier fines ($2,048) a longer suspension of her license and a 21 day alcohol education course, Nicole needs to come to terms with the fact that baby, the party's over. but she already got credit for 6 hours because when she first got arrested she spent 6 hours in jail.

A third conviction will result in a minimum of 120 days in jail. After that, she would be looking at prison. Not daddy Lionel Richie or even her attorney, legal eagle Shawn Chapman Holley, will be able to save her if she doesn't come to terms with her addiction.

Saying that she was very lucky she didn't hurt anyone driving on the wrong side of the freeway, a Glendale Superior Court Judge sentenced Richie to the minimum 4 days in jail, with the bi-racial sister already having 6 hours credit (which in many instances is the equivalent of 1 day).

Thus, the pregnant celebutante will have to serve a remaining 90 hours) of custody time. She must report to serve her time by September 28. In the real world, she would be booked and sent home within hours due to the overcrowding in jail. In the alternative, they would give her a work furlough. Richie is expected to give birth in January.

But this is Hollywood folks, so the sheriff's department now must have Nicole do the full amount of time like Paris Hilton, or risk being accused of giving "The Simple Life" star celebrity justice.

Is this a fair sentence, or do you think Richie is still getting off too easy?

DADDY LIONEL ON HIS LITTLE GIRL NICOLE RICHIE: WHERE DID WE GO WRONG?

Nicole Richie, adopted daughter of legendary R&B crooner Lionel Richie, has found herself back in the headlines.

Of course there’s more important things happening in the world; apparently we’re in a “war on terror;” Barack Obama making a very strong case as to why he should become the nation’s first Black president; and attempts by national leaders to end the 4-year conflict that has devastated the western region of Sudan, Darfur.

But… Nicole Richie, the 25 year-old starlet and star of “reality TV” just might be pregnant. This is the same Nicole who, according to pictures of her in magazines, was supposedly anorexic.

Nichie's the one that was admitted into rehab for her drug addictions, and arrested for entering a California freeway on the exit ramp. Everyone knows her notoriously infamous friend, Paris Hilton who... well, let's not go there.

Paparazzi flood the streets just to get another picture of the actress and the rest of America looks to see what outfit she’s wearing and whether or not she ate dinner last night. Now that pregnancy and a possible wedding is something new to speculate about, I continue to wonder what her extremely talented father thinks about this Maybe I don’t read enough or pay enough attention to her dress size, but the name Lionel Richie definitely doesn’t come up very often considering his less accomplished daughter is in our face each week.

Lionel Richie, the whole reason for her recognizable name is rarely seen or heard. Most might think that this is a textbook for bad parenting, that this is why she ended up another celebrity youth wrapped up in drugs and alcohol, or doesn’t he see her cries for help and attention?

Maybe his dedication to his music career is what he’s been nurturing over the years instead. (The way he sang to that blind woman in the song “Hello” made her sculpt a bust of him perfectly, so he must know what he’s doing!)

Considering that parents are the primary influence on our lives, this definitely seems to be the case. But if you think a little deeper, it’s amazing, maybe even planned that he has been able to continue his illustrious career with no attachments to his daughter’s monthly screw ups, break-downs, and speculations. Whether we see it or not, he seems to be there for her, according to one of the interviews that he gave regarding his relationship with Nicole.

When asked by Access Hollywood about the possible wedding this summer Lionel said, “"Nicole is probably one of those wonderful people that will not tell her father until I keep going, 'Come on Nic. I'm your father. What's going on? [She'll say] 'Nothing dad, nothing.' So right now, she's in nothing mode. I don't know. She'll let me know about it at the very last minute."

"I'm just hoping that it doesn't cost me a fortune," he smiled.

We’re left thinking, “they’re pretty close, he talks to her personally about her life instead of reading it in gossip magazines. He hasn’t always let her run all over him like weak parents of celebrities.” There’s nothing our strong Black mothers dislike more than a child telling their parents to ‘shut up and leave me alone.’ There’s no way Lionel plays that game!

But at the same time, how is she probably one of those people? Does he know or not? It’s so confusing that it’s ingenious, so I simply throw my hands in the air, disconnect from the fact that he’s been her father through all of her mishaps that could also land her in jail, and get distracted thinking, “How did that girl in the ‘Hello’ video know how to sculpt his face that well? Damn, Lionel can sing! Whoever that Richie girl’s father is needs to tell her to get a hamburger and stop hanging out with the sex tape girl.”

--“Keep talking, it’s the only way they’ll ever hear you.”--JJJ