Nicole Richie Covers Ocean Drive March 2012

She's gearing up for the March thirteenth launch of her new show "Fashion Star," and as a part of the promotions Nicole Richie took over cowl duties for the March 2012 issue of Ocean Drive.

The 30-year-old struck unfold} of poses for the Robert Ashcroft shot spread whereas gap up to the magazine regarding family life and her personal growth since the "Simple Life" days.

Highlights from Miss Richie's interview are as follows. For more, make certain to pay a visit to Ocean Drive!

On her husband, Joel Madden:
“Joel and that i are complete polar opposites. He’s from southern Maryland. He’s terribly family-oriented. He grew up with four brothers and sisters. after we met, i used to be undoubtedly prying a troublesome time with my family, and having him have such a robust foundation extremely opened the doors and brought each of our families along.”

On her 2 kids, Sparrow and Harlow:
“My daughter appearance precisely like me, and he or she has Joel’s temperament. She’s terribly careful. She doesn’t create a move while not absolutely pondering what the implications would be and what which means. Sparrow appearance precisely like Joel and has my temperament. He’s simply wild. I’m in for the ride. He’s two, and we’ve had broken fingers, we’ve been to the hospital. you can't take your eye off of him for a second. he's simply a full, free spirit.”

On her roller coaster past:
“You got to bear in mind that i used to be twenty years previous. I don’t understand anybody who will remember at who they were at twenty and say, ‘I’m the precise same person.’ It’s all regarding evolving and growing. Who we tend to are in our 30s is clearly terribly completely different than who we tend to are in our 20s…Also, keep in mind that my life didn’t begin in shooting the straightforward Life. For the general public, obviously, that was the primary time they saw me, however this has been a dream of mine since i used to be to a small degree lady. I even have fond reminiscences of that point. I was 20, twenty one years previous and that i was doing a show with my succor and that we didn’t extremely got to do abundant. we tend to were simply being ourselves—and enjoying it up for the cameras, obviously—but the show was terribly safe on behalf of me to try to to, within the sense that cameras were never in my home. They were never shooting my family. it had been additional regarding getting in alternative people’s realities, as critical the cameras returning into our realities."

On her career in fashion:
“I’ve been preparing for this since i used to be sixteen years previous. once I truly met with partners, (clothing manufacturers) Rick and Brian Cytrynbaum, and that they asked for concepts, I said, ‘I have plenty!’ I had 2 huge folders of inspirations tears to point out where I saw the road going, what I needed to begin with initial, and where I needed to require it eventually. This has been in my head for a really long term. With Winter Kate, we tend to embarked on thus tiny. It’s taken me four seasons even to expand into doing leathers, laser cuts, furs. I even have goals for House of Harlow and for Winter Kate: Ultimately, this can be a way of life complete. I’m about to do home furnishings and flatware, everything. (But) straight away my focus is my family, and everything comes second to that.”