Nicole Richie wants to gain weight....
 

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Socialite Nicole Richie, whose rail-thin appearance in recent photos has stoked tabloid speculation of an eating disorder, has checked into a treatment facility to address her inability to gain weight, her publicist said Thursday.

"She is working with a team of doctors and specialists whose focus is nutrition," spokeswoman Nicole Perna said in a statement. "It is important to Nicole that she achieves this goal in a healthy way as this is not a treatment for an eating disorder."

Richie, the 25-year-old daughter of singer Lionel Richie, has publicly acknowledged her obvious loss of weight in recent months, telling Vanity Fair magazine: "I know I'm too thin right now. ... I'm not happy with the way I look."

And she told People magazine that "stress" over the breakup with her former fiance had briefly affected her eating habits. But she has vehemently denied as "rumor" media reports suggesting she suffered from an eating disorder.

Her admission to the unidentified facility has forced a delay in production of the latest installment of her popular TV reality show, "A Simple Life," producers said.

Postponement of the show came weeks after Richie and her "Simple Life" co-star, hotel heiress Paris Hilton, ended a feud that had kept the two on nonspeaking terms for over a year.

"We wish her a speedy recovery and fully expect the series will resume production at some point, hopefully in the near future," said Chris Alexander, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox Television.

Alexander said the upcoming fifth installment of "A Simple Life," in which the pampered pair will be shown working as camp counselors, had been slated to begin in early November and air sometime in 2007.

The show moved to the E! after ending a three-year run on the Fox broadcast network, where it debuted as a hit in 2003 starring Hilton and Richie mixing with common folk as they worked real jobs in America's heartland.

The show continued into a fourth season even after a highly publicized, but unexplained, rift developed between the two stars.

The show's executive producer, John Murray, has said their reconciliation earlier this month was inspired in part by a mutual dislike of the proposed concept for the show's upcoming fifth season, which originally was to have been shot on a desert island, Alexander said.

News of Richie's decision to seek medical help first surfaced on the cable network that airs her show, E! Entertainment Television, and its Internet outlet, E! Online.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I heard somewhere she weighs 80 pounds or something close. She's taller by more than a few inches than me. I'd be dead if I weighed 80 lbs.

This just further shows that society pressures girls and women to look like walking skeletons because that is what is considered sexy. No thank you. I like my curves.

You know what I love about the stalkerazzi Media and these celebrities? On the same exact cover of a tabloid, they have a picture of Nichole or something that says "Annorexic Nightmare!' and a Pregnant version of Brittney Spears being called "fat." No wonder why girls in theis country have effed up extreem weights (One side being very heavy,the other side is sickeningly thin!)

Now, I want Nichole to gain weight. Both her and Paris. And I don't mean healthy weight... I mean, absolutely morbidly obese shut ins that have to have sensationalism talkshow hosts break down walls of their house to get them out. I'm talking world record challenging stuff. MAke them even LESS appealing to the Media.

Please... let Simple life 72 have them both as sumos in the HIGH weight class. GOD I hate them.

and there was you all offended in another post about cards making fun of overweight people tsk tsk tsk:P

wonder if she'd pay me what she pays the doctor to take her to McDonalds and Taco Bell :-?

No one got the point of that thread! :evilgrin: It's not that the cards offend me on the weight issue, but the issue that someone can make a living making those sort of things.

But what I'm saying here is that I FRIGGIN' hate those two and want to see a MASSIVE misfortune happen to them so they'd not be popular anymore. Getting really fat or dying are the only things that came to mind.

Well... other than people becoming obscenely smart and realizing that they're only famous because they're famous, and offer nothing to society.