Lionel Richie says he took his daughter Nicole to a doctor because he was concerned about her dramatic weight loss and the doctor told him she is not anorexic. Instead, Lionel claims that Nicole's weight loss is stress-related, citing his divorce from Nicole's mother and the constant media attention Nicole receives, particularly about her weight, as stressors. Now wait a minute, that sounds suspiciously like classic denial/displacement to me. Lionel feels guilty about Nicole's problem so he blames himself (and his divorce) and then goes on to blame the media scrutiny. But the media scrutiny is ABOUT her weight, it didn't cause her to LOSE the weight in the first place.
I'm sorry, I'm just really beginning to have trouble with this. If Nicole is sick, why can't the doctors figure out what is wrong? If she is a smack addict, or has a tape worm, or some other condition, why is she prancing around like nothing is wrong, asking to be left alone? And why isn't she at least talking about what she is doing to try to get better, as she eluded to in her conversation with Tyra Banks? Doesn't she realize that the more she pretends nothing is wrong the more crazy the media will get about it? Maybe she's just trapped in the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes Dilemma. Try to maintain some privacy about certain aspects of your life and have the speculation get so out of control that you lose your chance to deal with it calmly and reasonably. At that point you have to go and do something like publish a 22-page spread in Vanity Fair just to sort it all out.
I can see it now. "Nicole: I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome". The magazines would fly off the racks, and she would get herself on the cover of Vanity Fair! That doesn't really seem so bad now, does it Nicole?
Nicole Richie isn't anorexic [The Superficial]