Published: 4:43 PM PDT, April 10, 2024
Nicole Richie has lengthy been referred to as a lover of animals and it appears that evidently Prince is to thank for getting her began.
During a recent look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthe 42-year-old actress shared that she has a brand new cat in her life, Lavender Bumblebee, and mentioned her affinity for all animals, together with ferrets, which she copped to illegally smuggling into California from Nevada in her youth.
While speaking about her array of pets and their equally intriguing monikers, the Great News star confirmed that it was the “Purple Rain” hitmaker who kicked off her now decades-long love affair with pups.
“Prince obtained me my first canine,” she instructed Jimmy, 49, because the viewers let loose a synchronized “aww.” In response, the SNL alum requested how she remembers one thing like that, to which she had a hilarious and brutally sincere retort.
“I keep in mind as a result of the canine’s title was God. I didn’t title the canine, clearly,” Nicole laughed. “I used to be very young. I used to be round — I used to be round 4 however that was my first canine.”
Since that first canine many moons in the past, Nicole has actually not slowed down on taking in different animals. According to her Instagram web page, she and husband Joel Madden presently have a minimum of two German Shepherds, a number of chickens and a bearded dragon.
In a put up again in 2021, she even confirmed off her shut relationship along with her reptile, snapping a pic of the animal climbing up her collar and neck and sharing it to Instagram.
“Being a working mother is so arduous,” she wrote.
If the couple’s home wasn’t wild sufficient with the animals, Nicole and her Good Charlotte band member hubby, 45, share two kids, 16-year-old Harlow and Sparrow, 14. While the pair has executed their finest to maintain their children out of the highlight rising up, Nicole’s daughter and son could not assist however present as much as help their mother on the premiere of her new movie, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.
On the purple carpet in early April, Harlow bore a placing resemblance to her mother whereas Sparrow took after his dad in images from the occasion. The household of 4 additionally posed for photos alongside the kids’ grandfather, Lionel Richiehis girlfriend, Lisa Parigi, and their grandmother, Brenda Harvey-Richie.
Their household will quickly develop by another too as Lionel’s younger daughter, Sofia Richie Graingeis presently anticipating her first babydue early summer time. ET spoke with Nicole and her pop-star dad, 74, on the Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead premiere they usually might hardly include their pleasure over welcoming a brand new child lady into the household.
“[Sofia’s] bumping alongside… proper now we’re simply ready for the newborn to reach,” Lionel shared with ET on the time. “Pop-pop is prepared, make no mistake.”
Nicole is a first-time aunt on her personal facet of the household — her husband’s twin, Benji Maddenis married to actress Cameron Diaz and the pair shares two sons of their very own — and stated that she could also be extra excited than her personal little sister, whom she stated she loves “greater than something” in an Instagram post back in 2023.
“I’m beside myself, I do not even know what to say,” the mother of two stated. “I’ve to, like, actually include all of my pleasure.”
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