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Lionel Richie gets the skinny on Nicole's weight

Lionel Richie says he’s so worried about daughter Nicole’s dramatic weight loss that he took her to a doctor, who assured him she’s not anorexic.
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Lionel Richie says he’s so worried about daughter Nicole’s dramatic weight loss that he took her to a doctor, who assured him she’s not anorexic.

“I stood in front of [the doctor], just like you and I now, looked him in the eyes, and I said ‘Is it anorexia?’  And he said ‘It isn’t anorexia,’” the musician told the Swedish newspaper Expressen, according to our translator. He says Nicole’s weight loss is “stress-related” and he believes it’s due to his divorce from her mother and from all the media attention his daughter gets.

“I live with the constant fear that Nicole is going to become the next Princess Diana,” Richie said, apparently referring to the late royal’s death while she was being pursued by paparazzi. “Just to give an example of how crazy everything has become, I always know when Nicole is on her way home because she is always followed by a helicopter and seven cars.  It’s harassment.”

But, he claims, photos of Nicole have been digitized to make her look even skinnier than she is. “Many times, they manipulate pictures of her,” he says. “She’s shown me the difference between the original and what’s published in the newspaper.  They make her look much worse.”

Travis Barker, or mistaken identity?Gossips are saying that Paris Hilton has hooked up with Travis Barker. She says it’s a case of mistaken identity — it was just a friend of Barker's.

Gossips are buzzing that the partying heiress was spotted getting hot and heavy with newly-single Travis Barker of Blink 182 at the Spearmint Rhino in Las Vegas. “They were making out like crazy,” a source told In Touch Weekly. 

“I did not make out with Travis Barker,” Hilton corrected the gossipers. “I was with his friend Alex, who I met that night. It’s nothing serious. He looks like Travis, he has tattoos all over his arms, and he has a mohawk. People must have seen us and confused him with Travis.”

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