
Nicole Richie continues to be plagued by health issues on the set of The Simple Life. A few weeks back it was dehydration that took down the diminutive starlet, but it seems like she still can't stay on her two feet. Sources are saying that she has "had trouble walking and speaking clearly on set." Then last week she reportedly collapsed on location in Malibu and had to retire to her trailer for the remainder of the day. Among others, this behavior apparently isn't going over so well with her co-star Paris. Now, Nicole's rep is saying that Nic suffers from hypoglycemia which can cause dizzyness, fainting and other symptoms when blood sugar gets too low. Hopefully now that she's got a diagnosis, the starlet can get herself eating a little more often and avoid any other health scares!
















Giuseppe Zanotti
Jean Marie
Donna Karan
Know how to treat hypoglycemia?
1YOU EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right, it's hypoglycemia that's causing her not to eat. I wonder why it took so long to diagnose, must be a tricky one or maybe she just can't afford the proper medical care which would have detected the cause of her rapidly dropping weight earlier.
2lol JessNess....i know, right? If you look at that pic of Nicole, it totally looks like those 2 dark spots on her dress are her boobs hanging low. Weird thing to notice, but it made me laugh hehe
3Gum Dumpster- I dont know if you are responding to me but I was basically saying that to keep the blood sugar from getting low by eating. I dont think hypoglycemia is very hard to diagnosis just need a few blood tests
4im hypoglycemic and yeah i know the dizzy and faint feelings but It also makes me always need food to get my energy level up. So that was a bad lie.
5Wow, she seriously needs to eat and gain a few.
6ROFL brokenbracelet, now that's all I see when I look at the picture. What the heck are those dark spots??
7What kind of dumb diagnosis is this???? The reason she'll feel hypoglycemic or HYPO ANYTHING for that matter is from not consuming anything!! She hardly eats, there's no way around that. We saw how she looked before she went anorexic. To be hypoglycemic means the girl needs some SUGAR intake..she'd rather be skeletal and sick than consume a carb (sugar) apparently.
8Yea, that girl needs to eat eat eat, I'd love to see her gain a good twenty pounds. It would really be best for her health. Girls, it's not healthy to be that skinny. The perfect weight for her height is about 120.
9There's NO way a "diagnosis" of something like this takes as long as it did..esp for someone as rich as her. It takes nothing but like 2 blood tests to figure that out!!
10AprilD, I am not pro nicole, but my mom wasn't diagnosed until she was in her hearly 20s also. And she ate like healthy person should. so, sometimes docs don't know what to look for.
Plus, you can not have it and all of a sudden have it.
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Why don't you wear the face you have when I am not around?
*sigh* yeah pretty much i don't believe nicole's rep. i wish she would just eat something
12LOL- JessNess- that's exactly what I was thinking. Anyone will get dizzy if they don't EAT.
13Plus, you can not have it and all of a sudden have it.
14Actually with the hell she has put her body through she easily could have it out of nowhere. Extreme weight loss like she has had really messes up the body and easily could have messed with her pancreas (isles of Langerhans) and her blood chemistry EASILY
i hate to be grim, but the girl is wasting away. It just seems, if she's dizzy then there is no way she could be gaining weight. Didn't some Brazillian model recently die from complications of anorexia?
15please nicole take care of yourself! your name has become synonamous (sp?) with tooth pick. That is not something to be proud of.
16and welcome to the p.r. spin, folks! first, it was dehydration........now hypoglycemia..........can you say "starvation?"
17oh nicoles poor rep - the poor things confused - its called anorexia honey
18Paris claims she is 5ft 10...Nicole is 5 ft 2 or something...in heels they are both almost the same height in this pic...a friend of mine that has seen Paris several times in person always told me she thought Paris was really only about 5ft 6inches barefoot...and with 4 inch heels may in fact be 5 ft 10...now seeing these pics, Im starting to believe what my friend said is true...
19Nicole is 5 ft 1, I thought....I'd believe that Paris is 5 ft 6 though.
Nicole is SO much prettier than Paris. Paris is stuffed into that dress.
20UGH!! I was anorexic for 8 years!!
WHY is she pretending?
There's no shame in admitting you're trapped trying to be perfect and need help.
21She's hypoglycemic because she doesnt eat! Eat girl eat! It's better for you. F@ck skinny! It's not worth it. Plus you look like sh!t that thin...almost everyone does at that point unless your body is truely built to be like that. Hers isnt. She's meant, by her structure, to have "meat on her bones". Us short folk (Im 5'2") look so much better a bit thicker than rail thin. I fluctuate between 105-110,115. May sound big by fashion/trendy uber-skinny standards, but Im not at all. For the first time in my life, I love my body. It's not chubby and I look relatively "flat" (I just really need to work on tone!), but dont look sickly at all. I found my "fit". If she would gain maybe 10-15 more pounds, she would have a knock-out body, I think. But that's also through "real world" perception though..I know Hollywood perception is completely different. They b*tch when she's too skinny, but if she gained 5 pounds, they'd b*tch beacuse she would be overweight in that industry/media/tabloids. They can't win. Im not a fan of her's, but I have a kinda soft spot for female celebrities-outside of the whole "they chose that profession, blah blah blah" and I kinda feel for her, in a weird way. It really would suck to be normally really beautiful, and still be told that in order to do anything where people will see you, you have to lose weight..especially if you are only 100-105 lbs as it is. That's why I looooove Kate Winslet..Best role model ever when it comes to self identity/confidence. Oh and I think, when she first started doing the Simple Life and they first came into being popular, she was a bit thicker and everyone(shallow tabloids, blog sites(though not this one. Thankfully this one is classier than that
) b*tched because she was "too fat". I remember
hearing that all the time
22figures...
23my Mom struggled with Bulumia in her 20's, and as a result now has hypoglycemia. Hmmmmmmm?
PS- You CAN all of a sudden have it. It's up to how you eat, really. It's like the opposite of diabetes, which can be caused by how you eat, also.
24Hey cravinsugar.. you're right, some people can just be hypoglycemic on their own but we know Nicole does not eat healthy like your mom did. There is no fooling anyone that she is not anorexic. She is unhealthy and scary to look at..it's disgusting that she's letting her health waste away to look skeletal. We know how she looks naturally (like first season of The Simple Life) and how hard she's trying to seem 'naturally' skinny now.
25Thanks Aprild. I was reading all these comments, and while I am sure Nicole's is partly from her eating habits, does diabetes run in her family? none of us know. Everyone is so quick to judge because she is a trashy anorexic skank. i know that staement seems funny, but just because she is anorexic does not mean she will have hypoglocemia.
And jessness, yes you can not have it and all of a sudden have it, even if you are healthy. What tends to happen is, you are fine. one day you are hypoglocemic...yes, all of a sudden. Next year it could do a flip-flop and you could be hyperglocemic, which is full on diabetes.
I am not saying she got it all of a sudden for no reason, but ya'll need to be a bit less mean in how you express your feelings on how people get it since it happens genetically for the majority of people and there is nothing they can do about it.
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Why don't you wear the face you have when I am not around?
For example, i can eat as healthy as a freaking health guru, and if i am gonna have diabetes, i am gonna have diabetes.
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Why don't you wear the face you have when I am not around?
Food aside, those are two bad fashion choices.
28Just to clarify for JessNess and anyone else, the comment I made that is 2nd on the list was intended to be read as sarcastic. I know hypoglycemia is not particularly hard to diagnose, which is why I feel it's a bit suspicious that all of a sudden she's claiming to have hypoglycemia. Seems to me she obviously is not cured of her eating disorder as recent events passing out, dehydration would suggest and so it's damage control time for her people.
29Spitfire, that's an interesting observation about their comparative heights... Glad you pointed it out, it would never have occurred to me otherwise. (Not that I ever thought Paris was a paragon of truth, mind you. heh)
As for Nicole's weight - and maybe I'm just too tenderhearted - but I find her to be absolutely pitiful. She HAS to be in denial - I only wish she would realize how painful it is for the rest of the world to even look at her pictures. :-/
30Gum Dumpster- I see how you were being sarcastic now. Sometimes sarcasm doesnt translate well over the internet.
I am not saying she got it all of a sudden for no reason, but ya'll need to be a bit less mean in how you express your feelings on how people get it since it happens genetically for the majority of people and there is nothing they can do about it.
31cravinsugar- I wasnt trying to be mean. I know people have hypoglycemia for different reasons. I dont think any one here is trying to be mean about it either. I think most of us believe that this is just a bullsh*t reason for her recent behavior. She possibly could have because of what she has put her body through. Its hard to believe anything that she or her rep says. Specially on the whole thing about having an eating disorder. Something is clearly going on. It seems like hypoglycemia is just another convinent excuse for her
I just want to see her healthy
32A girl at my class was talking about this tonight, and she has it.
I feel really bad for Nicole if she does have this. I hope she gets better.
33A girl at my class was talking about this tonight, and she has it.
I feel really bad for Nicole if she does have this. I hope she gets better.
34doesn't basically anyone who does not eat much get dizzy or can faint? lol
35I know i do when i don't eat lol
Look at her railthin legs! When Paris looks way healthier then you you have problems.
36I thought Paris was much much taller.
37Even if Paris was standing straight it looks like she wouldn't be that much taller
38They are standing on hill
39Ha I registered on this site just so I could add my silly two cents...
I am hypoglycemic and so is my aunt. The hypoglycemia test is fairly easy to perform but is a TOTAL b*tch for the patient. You have to fast for a day, then drink this ridiculously sugary drink, then fast for several more hours, getting blood drawn every two hours in between. NOT fun at all, because the test is basically intended to make you sick. If you are hypoglycemic, you will get really ill and want to die (of course it registers in your glucose levels), if you aren't you'll only sort of feel icky from not eating.
Anyway, perhaps if she does have the disorder, she only just found out because she put off taking the test, knowing how completely crappy it is. However, there are only 3 things I can think of that ever make me or my aunt feel dizzy/sick with hypoglycemia: (1) Eating too much sugar, (2) Not eating enough protein, or (and ESPECIALLY) (3) Not eating enough at all! And from the looks of it, I'd say we can safely conclude she isn't suffering from a sweet tooth...So yeah, as others have said, you pretty much only get really sick with hypoglycemia when you DON'T EAT enough. And look at her, it's pretty clear she's NOT eating enough. Which, if she does in fact have hypoglycemia, is even MORE dangerous. Hypoglycemics are supposed to eat 6 small, balanced, protein-rich meals a day. Not doing so can do all sorts of bad things to your body.
Here's to hoping she gets some help soon!
40brokenbracelet - that is SOOOO funny! Now that's all I see when I look at this picture! hahahahaha
41I'm hypoglycemic too. And once you're aware of it and you educate yourself on how to take care of yourself, you don't have too many problems. But of course, the main thing is you actually have to eat!
42Oho. Nicole's legs are actually slimmer than Paris's.
43I really can't feel sorry for her. I'm hypoglycemic as well, and I know it's my own fault when I get dizzy, because I haven't been eating well. It's a pretty easy self-diagnosis. I think it's common for women to find it when they start to take their diet into their own hands. It's pretty straightforward: eat.
44-Bug
Ew, the dress.
There's and angel at my table and a devil up my sleave
45With nothing on-
Nothing but a smile
I am afraid for Nicole. I hope she will take care of herself, regardless of whether or not her publicist is telling the truth.
46Well I feel bad for her. And I do hope she gets better.
Wow some people are cruel.
47Can someone force her to eat, cause she aint doing it on her own.... where are you Brody?
48i like nicole but wish she would just sort herself out,maybe she is in denial still. i think paris is a complete waste of space, i cant stand the gal. i wish she would just disappear off the face of the earth!!!!
49I'm going to agree with cheekyem. I like Nicole as well but I wish that she would make some better choices. The diagnosis does not surprise me after her body was treated the way that it was. That's her body's way of saying "HELLO! WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF ME!" Paris is still bleh as far as I'm concerned.
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