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Nicole Richie
 As an Eating Disorder expert, Dr. Jantz was interviewed by Weekly InTouch Magazine (Sept 4, 2006, Vol.5 Issue 36, page 15) about Nicole Richie.
| "Nicole could die if she doesn't stop dieting," Dr. Jantz, an eating disorder specialist and the founder of A Place of Hope treatment center in Seattle, tells In Touch. "She's putting herslef in a dangerous place." |
 US Weekly reports on Nicole Richie’s eating disorder and her treatment:
On October 26, 2006 Nicole Richie’s rep announced that the size-0 actress, whose weight slipped to an estimated 87 pounds this summer, was undergoing treatment for her weight issues.
“I’m not in rehab, and I don’t have an eating disorder,” Richie tells Us. “I’m getting the help I need and taking care of my health.”
Both Nicole’s dad, Lionel Richie, and mom, Brenda Harvey Richie, have been concerned for some time, say family insiders, and the 25-year-old starlet was deeply affected by her relatives’ shock when she arrived in Alabama to attend her grandmother’s October 21 funeral.
“They told her she was too skinny and it really hit home,” says a friend who attended the memorial. “It was a turning point.”
Though Richie won’t confirm the nature of her treatment, Us has learned that she is being seen at a Newport Beach, California, facility, where she is undergoing doctor consultations and blood tests.
If, as she claims, she does not have an eating disorder, i.e. she is not suffering from anorexia, but rather a stress related illness that causes a loss of appetite, then why does she also claim to be totally happy with her life as well. Surely one counteracts the other. I mean, if you are suffering from stress to the extent that it causes you to lose the amount of weight NIcole has, the that is a fair indication of a serious problem and is surely an eating disorder.
The other way of looking at it is reasonably happy, in which case she is in denial and does have an eating disorder.
Either way, denial is the problem and the sooner she gets the help she needs the better.
Nicole Richie leaves treatment within first 72 hours
After less than 72 hours in the center, Richie checked herself out, explaining that she wanted to go shopping, reports Star magazine.
The staffers at Beau Monde begged her to stay, a source is quoted saying, “Nicole is in complete denial and oblivious to how sick she really is.”
Not long after she checked out of the center, Richie was spotted partying with Lindsay Lohan. She snuck out the second floor window of her rehab center, shimmied down a palm tree, found the nearest limo, and hopped a ride to Hyde Saturday night … all so she could drink, party… and pass out.
 December 2006-Nicole Arrested
The predawn arrest of the 25-year-old co-star of “The Simple Life” came about six weeks after it was revealed that she had checked herself into a treatment facility to address weight-loss issues.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department report showed the the 5-foot-1-inch actress weighed 85 pounds at the time of her booking.
Officer Todd Workman, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, said police encountered Richie at a standstill blocking the carpool lane on the Ventura Freeway in Burbank at about 1:45 a.m. He said the officers were responding to reports from other motorists of a driver going the wrong way on the busy highway.
Although Richie’s car was pointed in the right direction when police found her, her black sports utility vehicle matched the description of an SUV seen entering the freeway against traffic nearby, Workman said.
Workman said Richie was placed under arrest after she failed a field sobriety test, and that she admitted to officers that she had taken the prescription painkiller Vicodin and smoked marijuana. A preliminary alcohol screening test was negative, he said.
According to Workman, Richie was alone in her vehicle and on the cell phone when police approached her. He described her as “very cooperative” and that she told police she had been following a friend on the freeway when she got lost.
Richie, who has previously undergone treatment for heroin addiction, was subsequently booked into jail on a DUI charge and was released a few hours later after posting $15,000 bail, authorities said.
Representatives for the daughter of singer Lionel Richie were not immediately available for comment.
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