"I owe this baby my life" says Nicole

Nicole Richie has her pregnancy and boyfriend Joel Madden to thank for helping her see the bad pattern of behavior she'd established. Richie admits to dodging responsibility since she was young, telling Diane Sawyer, "It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little. I really wasn't learning anything from that. So I kept making bad decision or mistake after mistake after mistake. And I wasn't growing. I wasn't going anywhere." Of her December 12 arrest for DUI, Richie admits to smoking pot and taking Vicodin and says she was lost in an unfamiliar suburb of LA. "I was in such shock that I just stopped the car, and in two seconds, police were there and we got off the freeway," she says. "I had smoked marijuana that night. Just marijuana. I had Vicodin in my system from that day, which I take for pain." Richie said she took Vicodin for bad menstrual cramps, but didn't think it would affect her driving. When asked if she still takes it, Richie said, "No. I don't take anything now." Of her guilty plea last Friday, the tiny star said she and Madden had been watching a news segment about drunken driving when she realized the seriousness of what she'd done. "I owe this baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now," she said of her nearly four-month pregnancy. "Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to." Richie took five pregnancy tests but says she didn't truly believe she was pregnant until she heard the heartbeat. She and Madden say they are going to try to "hold out" until it is birth to find out the sex of the baby.

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Gwen to tone down show for Muslims

Gwen Stefani has agreed to respect local customs and not wear revealing costumes for her upcoming concert in Malaysia. After protests from Muslim students about her sexy outfits, the show's producer said Stefani will follow the local code of ethics for foreign artists, which says female artists must cover up from the to top of the chest to the knees including the shoulders. No jumping, shouting, hugging, kissing or throwing of objects on stage or at the audience is allowed. The National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students, which counts 10,000 members, say Stefani's standard show clashes with Islamic values. "Her performance and her attire are not suitable for our culture. It promotes a certain degree of obscenity and will encourage youth to emulate the western lifestyle," said the union's president. "The concert should be stopped." senior official of the country's Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry said the concert will go on but that enforcement officers would meet with Stefani beforehand to remind her of local guidelines and monitor her show: "There is no problem so far. [The promoter] has told us what clothes she will wear for the concert."

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Jewelry Collection by Amy Bengtson

By mixing different woods, metals and nature themes, jewelry designer Amy Bengston has created this stunning and unique collection. Amy has paired her background in architecture with her love for design. With many of the pieces you can choose the wood and the metal. Large Cherry Necklace $120-190, Mod Floral Necklace $84 available at Stars & Infinite Darkness.

Britney's "cousin" aspires to pop stardom

Where has Britney Spears's former constant companion and rumored "cousin" been of late? Turns out, she's left the popstar's side to work on a singing career of her own. Alli Sims updated her website this week to include her first song, a cover of On My Own from Les Miserables. "She heard my songs on the laptop and was like, 'I love this song! This is you singing?'" Sims says of Spears. "She has always been supportive." Of the popstar's oft-questioned parenting skills, Sims says, "She's a wonderful mom and she's so hands-on... Britney loves those babies to death. And they adore her... I love her, she's beautiful inside and out. We're still great friends." Of her music, the aspiring singer says, "I don't dance, I'm not pop. I have a more bluesy voice, more Norah Jones-ish. I don't want to appeal to just my age group and younger." Sims moved to LA and worked as an assistant to wedding planner Mindy Weiss before hooking up with Spears. "I was just doing that for a little while, and we had a great time together," she says. "I hope everything falls into place, and maybe by January I will have a lot of things under my belt and get to release something. I just want to do what I love. [Music] is my passion."

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Garner to take Broadway

Jennifer Garner is in talks to star in a Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac this fall. The show will run just ten weeks, beginning in October. Garner would play opposite Kevin Kline as Roxanne, the witty, heady French socialite with whom Cyrano is secretly in love. Antonio Banderas is reportedly one of the production's financiers.

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Chris O'Donnell and wife pregnant with fifth child

Actor Chris O'Donnell announced on the Today show Wednesday that his wife is expecting their fifth child. When asked about his four children, O'Donnell replied, "Another on the way," and high-fived host Ann Curry. "Yeah, we're just starting to figure out how it works. I think I know why this is happening, but we're really excited about it." O'Donnell has been married to Caroline Fentress since 1997. Their four other children are Lily, 7, Chip, 6, Charlie, 4, and Finley, 16 months.

Mel B files suit to establish Murphy as baby daddy

Melanie Brown filed a petition in Superior Court on Wednesday to legally establish Eddie Murphy as the father of her four-month-old daughter Angel. The Spice Girl also intends to seek sole custody and a reasonable amount of child support from Murphy. "I am here today for one reason and one reason only - her name is Angel," Brown said. "Angel is my baby and Eddie's. She will always know that she was planned and wanted by both of us." Despite the DNA test results released last month proving Murphy is the father, Brown's lawyer said in a statement that the test "established paternity but paternity has not been legally acknowledged" and that Murphy has shown "shocking and appalling" behavior.

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