Jan 2 2006Nicole Richie might have cancer

I have no other explanation for how or why she's gotten so disgustingly skinny. She started dropping a tremendous amount of weight and went right through hot-body phase and into chemotherapy last-stages-of-cancer phase. If she's trying to kill herself, there are simpler and faster ways of doing it. My favorite of which involves a rabid wolverine and two chainsaws. Three if you want the super ultimate awesome version.

Nicole Richie walking on a beach path [JJB]
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Reader Comments
1. diddleysquat - January 2, 2006 5:31 PM
WOW, she looks so freaky that it looks almost photo-shopped... disturbing. She looks like a bowling ball on top of a hockey stick!
2. Lynette Carrington - January 2, 2006 5:40 PM
Oh, that's just scary. Really, Nicole, there's nothing wrong with being a size 4, please eat a burger!
3. Lynette Carrington - January 2, 2006 5:41 PM
Maybe that's why her engagement fell through.......Nicole turned sideways and her fiance lost her!
4. E. Jones - January 2, 2006 5:50 PM
her glasses are bigger than she is.
5. pirhan - January 2, 2006 6:11 PM
That's quite possible Lynette. (Reminds me of Chris' engagement to Kate Moss in Family Guy.) I can not believe how skinny she is.. there's thin beauty and then there's Skeletor.
6. Juliette - January 2, 2006 6:13 PM
Poor thing...she needs serious help
7. SpiderMomma - January 2, 2006 6:29 PM
Gross!!! Someone..anyone.....get this girl to a buffet and chain her to it!
8. Captain Awesome - January 2, 2006 6:30 PM
Concentration camp survivor is the new skinny.
9. suzy - January 2, 2006 7:14 PM
i think she's skinnier than how mary kate was... and mary kate didn't even put much weight back on.... the only person who really has is lindsay..
10. firestar - January 2, 2006 7:20 PM
omg those size 0 shorts look big on her..doesnt she have friends to tell her that she needs to eat a sandwich
11. Jewbacca - January 2, 2006 7:31 PM
I THINK SHE NEEDS TO LOSE 15 MORE POUNDS. YOU ARE STILL FAT NICOLE, PARIS IS STILL HOTTER.
12. I love K-fed's Corn Rolls - January 2, 2006 7:39 PM
Hmmm... that's nasty. She looks like an after school special...
I understand stress and breaking off an engagement... but most people lean towards comfort food... looks like Nicole leaned a little to hard towards the candy, the Brazillian Disco Nose Candy, that is.
13. nikki - January 2, 2006 7:56 PM
Jewbacca you're hilarious!!!!! LMAO.
Yes Nicole, you fat cow. Keep losing da weight. Clearly Mom and Dad don't see the need to hospitalize you yet. Keep going til they get the message. 15 more pounds is just about right.
14. Leyland Austrian - January 2, 2006 8:04 PM
We can do with out the so called clever bits that are posted. They are not really clever just jealous people jumping on the negitive badwagon. Sure this poor little rich girl has problems , but don't we all. I hope she does not have cancer and that one of her " so called friends" can help her to live a better healthier life. of course friends are a rare comidity. I mean real friends that care. Not for thier personal gain but actually give love and help
I watched a dear fried go from a too tubby stature to a nice bod to the dreaded chemo bod and then ultimately death. I watched my friend fade away over a period of months. the good thing was his memorial. He would have loved it. We got together and told great and funny stories of the good times we spent with our friend. We laffed and cryed it was a special day.
Leyland Austrian
15. Virginia - January 2, 2006 8:27 PM
It's the glasses. Yes, she is dreadfully skinny, but I predict that if she were in a normal sized pair of sunglasses she wouldn't look like Skeleton Jack. It's all in relation to your surroundings, ie, if you stand next to someone fat, you look thinner. But with those glasses she seriously looks like a bobble-head
16. the_snitch - January 2, 2006 8:46 PM
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17. Solaera - January 2, 2006 8:48 PM
She looks like a praying mantis...
18. eringirl - January 2, 2006 8:51 PM
Even more frightening, the camera adds weight! I saw her at La Conversation about a month ago and was taken aback at how sadly skinny she really is. It's beyond making fun of her, she seriously needs help. It makes me wonder if we'd be harping on Karen Carpenter had there been a Superficial.com back then
19. The Devil - January 2, 2006 9:41 PM
Mmmm.....skinny.
20. Bogart - January 2, 2006 9:58 PM
That's got to be photo-shopped.
21. fatgirl - January 2, 2006 10:22 PM
Leyland Austrian GO TO OPRAH!!!!!
22. BillyGurl - January 2, 2006 11:24 PM
Leyland, take your whiny ass to your HS counselor and keep the Lifetime stories off such a fine site.
Nicole Richie is pointless and ugly.
Period.
23. Tha-Flash - January 2, 2006 11:25 PM
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
24. Janiebabes - January 2, 2006 11:50 PM
Um... Just above you referred to Angelina Jolie as 'fat'. Fat? In whose universe. Perhaps it is attitudes like that which lead women to starve themselves.
It's like the Who magazine articles that sandwich the disgust at women like Kirstie Alley and the horror at women like Lara Flynn Boyle in between cosmetic surgery articles. Perhaps if people like you spent less time picking over women's bodies and how they do or don't measure up, there wouldn't be so many grappling with eating disorders.
25. sarakai - January 3, 2006 12:29 AM
Ur a dickhead Janiebabes, they referred to Angelina Jolie as fat because shes pregnant u tool! We make comments about Kirstie Alley, Lara Flynn Boyle and Nicole Richie because theyre weight is a danger to theyre health and unnatural. I have never seen anyone make comments on a celebrities weight at a normal healthy size. I can only imagine this attitude of yours has come from the fact ur obviously a fat bitch and always have been. U better run, I think I smell hotdogs...
26. doom - January 3, 2006 1:13 AM
Every other girl in Vogue looks like her, she should just take up modeling. Except she's really ugly too so maybe not.
27. flamarkel - January 3, 2006 1:44 AM
Hey, in Somalia they'd be calling her lard-ass or tubby or something like that. It's all relative.
28. Linnea - January 3, 2006 2:51 AM
She looks like an Ethiopian child in a drought year.
29. slinkhard - January 3, 2006 4:10 AM
'I can only imagine this attitude of yours has come from the fact ur obviously a fat bitch and always have been.'
Wow, sarakai, that comment sure proves you have a healthy attitude to weight.
30. ebayfan414 - January 3, 2006 4:28 AM
I actually think nicole is pretty, but shit her weight now is terrifying...none of you people's jokes are even funny because she seriously needs some help soon or she will die of starvation...it's fun making fun at fat or really skinny celebrities, but not when they literally look like they are on the brink of death.
31. aims_25 - January 3, 2006 5:15 AM
Solaera: She actually really does look like a preying mantis what with the big glasses and all. Good call!
32. Hara - January 3, 2006 6:31 AM
Wow. Her head is humongous. Someone get that girl a sandwich. Her legs turned lumpy and her rib cage is looking a little Sub-saharan-famine-ish.
For the disgruntled, the last time i checked this wasn't a community service site. It's probably hard to convince her to gain weight when her designer gowns fit so much more easily now. So sorry -- it may be tragic, but it is also gross. And So hard to feel quite sorry for her when she doesn't seem to put too much of her fortune towards the kids she's starting to look so much like instead of running around with ex-model heiresses milking cows.
33. hermanita - January 3, 2006 11:16 AM
Dear God! She looks like she's going to fall apart any moment! There are girls born skinny, but nobody looks THIS skinny by nature. What is she doing to herself?
34. ShanDourdan - January 3, 2006 12:25 PM
I don't know what's more scary... The fact that the camera actually adds ten pounds or the fact that young, impressionable girls probably look up to Nicole and want to be just like her. It's sick.
35. Geminat - January 3, 2006 3:22 PM
she needs to take some og Kiki Dunst's pre-natal pills...her hair looks awful.
36. PapaHotNuts - January 3, 2006 4:07 PM
According to Sally Strothers, for only $12 a month, we can rid the world of hunger and save people like this. She should call Brittany and ask her how she beat anorexia. Because she did. Like a motherfucker she beat it.
37. ~S.Starr~ - January 3, 2006 4:47 PM
Okay...to all the people suddenly growing a concious...SHUT THE HELL UP!!! Check your web browser...it doesn't say www.PeopleWhoCare.com. It says www.THE SUPERFICIAL.com!!!! So what if what people are writing is disturbing and mean...go donate to some anorexia fund and stop bugging us people who just want to vent about poor retarded celebs!!!!!!!
38. HughJorganthethird - January 3, 2006 5:22 PM
Shes so small and thin Star Jones could use her as a sex toy. Or an apetizer
39. Seamus Begonia Smell - January 3, 2006 7:51 PM
lol #16
40. ashlee - January 5, 2006 1:00 AM
no she needs to lsoe more weight shes still fatter than a skeleton, she need to keep going, come on nicole you'll get there just try harder. Obviously no1's gunan send you to rehab so just get worse then they'll freak and kick emselves'
41. stephanie - January 7, 2006 1:31 AM
i think nichole needs to read this page...
42. araiza - January 7, 2006 3:55 PM
seriously, you could be hot. Guys like boobs. maybe gain some to get them back... just dont lose any more.
43. Kelsey - January 7, 2006 4:11 PM
omg...you guys need to GROW UP and stop critisizing her!! shes a living breathing person.....is that your body? no...becuase it's HERS!! stop saying those things!! if she thinks its best for her then LAY OFF!!! I have a friend like that....with that kind of body...and its not because somethings wrong with her....it's because she loves to EXCERSIZE...and she eats HEALTHY!! maybe you guys honestly don't know what healthy is....you guys are being jerks
44. stephanie - January 7, 2006 7:49 PM
Kelsy- that is so not true......maybe with yur friend, but not withe Nicole......she is a skinny ugly bitch!!!!NO boy would want to go out with her, thats why her finace left her!!!! DUH...........Stupid
45. milo - January 10, 2006 10:41 AM
if you have ever seen anyone with cancer or watched someone die of cancer..in any form, you will realise how "so not funny" it is to compare whatever is wrong with nicole richie to cancer.
there is a thin line between trying to be funny and being downright mean.that caption crossed the line.
46. John - January 11, 2006 5:11 AM
Jesus, what's with these young, female celebrities and wearing sunglasses that are 10 sizes too big for their faces? First the Olsen twins, Mischa Barton and now Nicole Richie. Oh wait, did I say the sunglasses are too big? What I really meant was that their faces are collapsing upon themselves under the glasses.
47. Dragon - January 11, 2006 11:54 PM
Milo, you comment kind of offended me, cause if what is wrong with Nicole is an eating disorder, it is just as much a deadly DISEASE as cancer.
48. beautybratt - January 12, 2006 11:43 AM
What is so crazy to me is why to my knowledge at least there has been no intervention. And then a public confession is expected prompted from someone like Katie Couric (????!!!!!!!!) during a book tour? It look Lindsey a few pounds, a trainer, a good year or so and an article in Vanity Fair to reveal her ordeal. She was always a bit more on the edge though too. Nicole I probably in a hell of a lot of pain. But she thrives in the celebrity live so in the end she'll either smarten up or live thin and ....oh and side note. I've been in the beauty and fashion industry for several years. I will say I really don't think she looks that bad. Sorry, but have you seen the girls in the anorexia hospitals at 50 pounds? This is slightly different you realize.
49. ir0ny! - January 14, 2006 5:35 AM
Looks like Paris stole her food while filming The Simple Life. Maybe that's why they had a big fight & starting hating each other.
50. tyshkers - January 15, 2006 8:30 AM
#47 - Eating disorders may be considered diseases, b ut its hard to feel too sorry for people who make themselves sick. People who suffer from cancer don't .
51. Dragon - January 18, 2006 9:43 PM
It is a disease that can be stopped in the early stages, but once it has come to a certain point the person has just as much control over the eating disorder as the person with cancer has over his or her illness. There is nothing more in the world I would like than to be rid of this hell.
52. skinnywinny - January 19, 2006 4:20 PM
i hope that nicoles okay.. stay strong nicole.
53. ballerina - January 19, 2006 11:25 PM
tyshkers....I think im fuming right now...WOW, one of my best friends died from anorexia, and i know several people that suffer from it, and clearly, you know absolutely nothing about eating disorders.. people with eating disorders do NOT choose to have them, its a constant burden that consumes them, they cannot control it, that is why its a MENTAL disorder!! Saying that people with eating disorders choose to make themselves sick is the most ignorant thing ive ever heard in my entire life..seriously, go look up anorexia in a fucking book and learn a little bit about it before you ever say something like that again...can you tell i'm mad right now?
54. tyshkers - January 20, 2006 11:12 PM
Well get your ass in rehab and you will live. There is no real cure for cancer and you have to go through torture to fight for your life. It sucks that you felt the need to destroy your body, but you did it to yourself and you have the power to end it. People with cancer don't, so stop grabbing for attention and get help.
55. tyshkers - January 20, 2006 11:15 PM
Actually I do know quite a lot about it. And the basics are the basics. You can't compare cancer and eatind disorders. They are apples and oranges. (With the exception of smokers and lung cancer etc.) There are CURES for eating disorders. It is a matter of getting help. I myself had an eating disorder when I was a teenager, so I know from personal experience that it was something I did to myself and it was something only I could stop.
56. tyshkers - January 20, 2006 11:16 PM
PS. You can't DIE from anorexia. You die from complications. Perhaps you are the one who should pick up a textbook.
57. ballerina - January 21, 2006 1:28 AM
Are you saying that people with eating disorders DONT have to fight for their lives?! Cause thats what it seems like. And im not comparing eating disorders to cancer at all- you're the one whose doing that. Youre downplaying eating disorders, like theyre not real diseases and they're just something you can snap out of...you cant say, "oh, im going to stop making myself throw up" all of a sudden, it doesnt work like that. Once someone decides to recover, it does not automatically mean everythings going to be easy...and at what point did i ever say that i had an eating disorder?!
58. sarakai - January 26, 2006 6:44 AM
tyshkers, quit while ur waaaaaaay behind. Look at Nicole- you don't think that someone can die from being so malnutritioned??? YOU CAN NOT LIVE WITHOUT FOOD! The reason that there are 'complications' is that the anorexia causes their bodies to become so weak they cant fight normal, everyday 'complications'.
I guess what I'm trying to say is your a fuckburger!
59. LOVER4 - January 30, 2006 10:17 PM
Hello everyone,my reply is to Tyshkers,first of all what does an eating disorder have to do with cancer?Me being a cancer survivor an individual having an eating disorder and having cancer are two different things,chemo makes some people lose weight because loss of appeitite,smell and taste,and it makes some people gain weight.(chemo is given to patients with cancer etc)and you said''there's no cure for cancer'' correction there is a cure for certain types of cancer but not all.Eating disorders are not a sign that a person has a problem with food, rather eating disorders are actually only the symptoms of underlying problems in that person's life.''Hopefully knowing all this you'll now know that cancer and eating disorders are different respectively.''Nicole Richie'' is beautiful,You guys are so busy talking about her at least shes doing things to better her life!Some of you probably have too much idle time on your hands,that you feel that dissing ''Nicole'' is the only way to hide your own insecurities.Plus in a magazine Nicole mentioned that she was always naturally skinny,But we just have to face it that some people are just naturally skinny.
60. akahuge - February 8, 2006 9:41 PM
her engagement fell through bacause her engagement ring fell off her skinny finger
61. akahuge - February 8, 2006 9:46 PM
if she doesn't start eating again soon her stomach will start to get big and swollen like she's a starving kid from Africa.
62. ashley-jade - February 26, 2006 4:06 PM
i think she looks gorgeous
63. hottie420 - April 17, 2006 11:59 AM
I really like nicole richie.she is a vrey blunt and interesting person,that is what i like so much about her.i am very saddened by the pictures i have saw of her lately,it is very sad.there has to be a reasonable explanation for this.i hope that if she does have an eating disorder,than i wish and hope and pray that she can get help before she dies.it can happen.i also think that the people who were saying mean and cruel things about her are heartless people,who don't care about others.> PARIS HILTON IS UGLY,only her body looks good.......
64. WTF? - September 1, 2006 11:26 AM
I think Leyland ate his friend.
65. PLW - October 22, 2006 3:18 PM
i have been dealing w/anerexia for awhile now, so to any1 reading this that thinks they need to lose weight please please do it safe, healthy, and know the limits. losing weight can become an addiction becuase once you lose weight u will never b truly satisfied...u might see a little area of jiggle and u think ok well i need 2 lose 2 more pounds and then once u lose those 2 pounds u ssee another area of jiggle. its not nicoles fault this is something you cant control on your own. sometimes the reasons 4 eating dissorders are because u feel like ur life is outta control and the only thing u can control is ur intake of food.(mine was progressed b/c my bf and i broke up) no1 or nothing is worth ur life. i have been through it all from the hair falling out, to losing my monthly cycle due to my body not being able 2 support itself let alone a baby, to my heart malfunctioning, its a living hell therefore all of u inconsederate ppl who r making uncalled 4 comments i would like 4 u 2 get an eating dissorder then if u r willing 2 still say the same things u said then i give u my respect but intill then think about how u would feel if some1 was making fun of u as u were dieing. any1 w/any ?s or any1 who just needs some1 2 talk with please please feel free 2 ask me or share ur problems im willing 2 do anything 2 help b/c u cant make it on ur own.
66. HollywoodSnark - December 12, 2006 11:37 AM
yeah, just more publicity...http://hollywoodsnark.com
67. wendy harg - May 16, 2007 5:43 PM
Is cancer spelled cocaine?
68. Adrienne - January 18, 2008 2:06 AM
you people are fucking idiots man!
Jason Mewes may have had his addictions but as for fucking nichole richie who was also been addicted to drugs and sticking her hand half way down her throat, i doubt that's STOOPING from her standards. Besides Jays fuckin hot. Its not his fault you douchbags are just jealous he gets wayyy more ass than you, has no time to be talking about someone who wont mind their own business and who only critizes someone elses life when they dont even fucken know em!