8. Nicole Richie
When Nicole Richie stepped out with a shockingly thin frame, tabloids worldwide questioned the reality TV star’s health. She later blamed her drastic weight loss on her 2005 breakup from the late DJ Adam Goldstein. She told People magazine, “I get really stressed out, and I do lose my appetite.”
Loss of appetite is a side-effect of depression, but we have to believe that Richie’s fast lifestyle didn’t do her any favors. In 2006, she was arrested for DUI when she was pulled over driving on the wrong side of a California freeway. She admitted to police that she had smoked marijuana and taken a Vicodin earlier in the day. At the time of her arrest, the 5’1″ star weighed only 85 pounds.
Following her arrest and brief stint behind bars (and by brief, we mean 82 minutes in total) Richie went to treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, and worked with a psychiatrist, personal trainer, and nutritionalist to get her life back on track. After getting married to Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden and having two children, Richie seems to be on the road to recovery. She has gained a little bit of her weight back, and we must say, those few pounds have really done wonders.
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