Nicole Richie Not As Into Pregnant Smoking As Originally Thought

Life used to be so much simpler than it is now.  

Take raising children, for one. We have fond memories of when parents would pack us into the back of the station wagon for 12-hour road trips to Nana’s house like a bunch wild animals hopped up on generic soda and Cheeze-Its. Nowadays you have to secure the little tykes into properly installed safety seats and can’t strap one to the luggage rack when they keep counting the bottles of beer on the wall and just… won’t… SHUT UP. 

And whatever happened to the good old days when a six-month-pregnant woman who has surrendered all self-restraint to the nicotine gods and habitually smoke in peace? Maybe Nicole Richie knows, because she was spotted smoking a few ciggies in a scenario very similar to this one.  

Or maybe she wasn’t. It could have just been a rumour. That’s what Nicole Richie is saying, anyway.  

Pregnancy has changed Nicole Richie. It’s made her wiser, more mature and more visible when she turns sideways now so it’s much safer for her to cross busy roads and walk over subway grates. It has also kept her from making any stupid reality shows and driving into oncoming traffic while on drugs and stuff. Lately we’ve been grateful to just relax and go back to calling her ‘the super skinny daughter of Lionel Richie that wasn’t so super skinny for a while but then got so super skinny that we all felt bad for saying she was fat and just wish she’d go back to being not so super skinny’. 

Anyway, the point is that getting preggers with Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden and his eyeliner seemed to have mellowed Nicole Richie out. That’s why it was so abhorrent when reports came out the she was spotted smoking in New York using her baby bump as an ashtray. It’s true. It really is. All except that we imagined the foetal ashtray because that’s how we’d do it and the fact that Nicole Richie denies the whole smoking thing entirely.  

You see, on Monday gossip columnist Cindy Adams’ reported in the New York Post that Nicole Richie was spotted outside of two different establishments being all smokey while pregnant over the weekend. Now, don’t go hitting Al Gore on the speed dial to come and help a troubled Nicole Richie just yet even though Lindsay Lohan apparently thinks that was a good idea for herself. Nicole Richie has a few things to say on the matter to Access Hollywood: 

“It’s really very sad and hurtful that journalists don’t believe in checking facts before writing false and unsubstantiated stories about my health and my pregnancy… The healthy birth of my child is my number one priority.” 

If the journalists had checked their facts they would have learned that Nicole Richie apparently wasn’t even in New York at the time of the supposed sightings.  

Well, there you have it, folks. Nicole Richie appears to be the victim of unsubstantiated rumour. Maybe it was just someone that looked like Nicole Richie. Maybe it was just a ten year-old boy wearing a dress with a melon under it to be a body double for Nicole Richie to distract the paparazzi so she and Joel Madden can have some privacy to give each other makeovers.  

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