Though it was a couple years—and two kids—ago that Nicole Richie‘s dramatic weight loss inspired rumors of an eating disorder, the Simple Life star still resents the gossip. “I felt it was a little unfair to say someone has an eating disorder when they don’t. It’s extremely insulting and irresponsible,” she told UK’s Marie Claire. An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease…I’m, like, five foot one – I’m a small person. When I was heavier, everyone said I was too heavy. You can’t win in the public eye and I find it really hard. So I ignore it now, I really do.”
“The only time it bothered me was when I was in a store trying on shoes and these girls came up to me, they were probably like 13 or 14, and their mother came over, and she said, ‘Are you taking care of yourself, because my girls think that you’re not.’ That was upsetting.” While we can understand the frustration, there are worse things than teenage girls being concerned for your health. That’s the kind of peer pressure more kids could use!
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