Why does nicole richie stutter

Nicole Richie has always been tricky to pin down: reality TV pioneer, early aughts icon of a kind of internet 1. I read this right before the crisis really unfolded and in a strange way it was very appropriate.

In Alaska they speak all summer about how winter is coming, and how they need to stock up and freeze their fish. The book presents the idea of Alaska as this dangerous place where the weak will not survive, but also the most magical and beautiful place to experience nature. Emma Roberts recommended this book to me, and I picked it up, and it was just a pure delight. There are some real underline-worthy lines in there. I picked it up at my favorite independent bookstore ; it was a recommendation from someone who works there.

I had seen the movie back in the day but had never read the book. I have never grown a potato, but I do grow my own food! She would have been "the daughter of soul singer Lionel Richie", the multi-millionaire artist who bestrode the charts in the Eighties with songs like Hello, Dancing on the Ceiling and Ballerina Girl, a song he wrote for Nicole when she was a child.

At three, Nicole was fostered by the singer and his wife, Brenda. Her real father was a drummer who worked with Richie, her mother, a backstage assistant. Nicole was formally adopted by the Richies when she was nine. Sometime around the millennium, pop culture appetites changed, and interest in the privileged offspring of the famous went from newspaper diary pages to the front page and magazine covers. In Richie got her own shot at fame with the scripted reality-television show The Simple Life, a vehicle for Paris Hilton with hilarious potential.

The prospect of a privileged, Bel Air-raised heiress slumming it in the countryside was too good to miss. Richie, just out of rehab having battled drug addiction as a teenager, was the plumper, wittier sidekick to Hilton; full of droll one-liners.

But there is little evidence of drollery or wit today. Maybe it's the jet lag. She flashes the brief smile of someone who has no plans to linger on the topic. Some people backpack around Europe, we did that. A celebrity was born, and branding opportunities beckoned. Richie's done them all -- advertising campaigns for Jimmy Choo, a ghosted rags-to-riches novel called The Truth About Diamonds. She "can't talk" about the follow-up to that project, but there will be one. It won't be a sequel, though.

There have been small acting roles too, and the golden ticket: her fashion and accessories lines. Last year it was announced that she was writing and developing a sitcom about a woman struggling with motherhood and her career. Some sort of television project is still in development, but Richie says that, no, that's not what it's about. Somehow, even this is a touchy subject. Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up.

I don't know how she does it all, I say. And I really make it work. I get up 6. I like to be fresh for my family. Today it's Richie's role as a designer that we are here to discuss.

It is season two of her clothing line, Winter Kate, and the accompanying accessories range, House of Harlow. Her month-old son, Sparrow, does not have a label named after him, but there's still time. According to my-wardrobe. The jewellery sold out. I quite like its boho Seventies vibe, which is reminiscent of how Richie has dressed since she ditched the Juicy Couture tracksuits of those chubbier Simple Life years, got thin and hooked up with the celebrity stylist turned reality-television star, author, fashion designer Rachel Zoe.

At one point, Richie's weight, or lack of it, was something of an international preoccupation. Ciara Miller has jumped head first into the world of reality TV on Bravo. Gibson Johns interviews the "Summer House" star about filming the current "Winter House" spinoff and the various romances that sprung out of the show, including her own with "Southern Charm" star Austen Kroll. They talk about where things stand between them now, how much she knew about his situation with Lindsay Hubbard and whether or not she watched "Southern Charm" before heading to Vermont.

The actress opened up about breastfeeding, mental health and marrying Jesse Plemons. Read full article. More content below. Nicole Richie. Lionel Richie. Jessica Hartshorn. October 3, , PM. In this article:. Latest Stories. Yahoo Life Shopping. In The Know by Yahoo.