Nicole Richie Wins Golden Pacifer From Parenting Magazine
Parenting.com
today announced Babytalk magazine’s 2008 Golden Pacifier Awards,
its 2nd annual list of baby-advocating newsmakers and notable
pro-mom moves of the year.
“From
bitter custody battles to car-safety snafus, there’s no shortage of
celebrity parenting mishaps in the news,” said Lisa Moran, editor-in-chief of Babytalk
magazine. “We created the Golden Pacifier Awards as a way to
recognize newsmakers who are setting positive examples and honor those who are
raising awareness for important issues affecting today’s families.”
After
going from gaunt wild child to glowing mom, Nicole Richie tops this
year’s list for her newfound maturity since the arrival of daughter
Harlow Winter Kate Madden, and for the creation of the Richie-Madden
Children’s Foundation, through which she has donated her deluge of
baby-shower gifts to needier parents.
What a complete 180 from a few years ago right? Nicole getting honored for being a mother? It must feel so wonderful.
See who else won the award after the jump.
Supermodel
Liya Kedebe is among this year’s Golden Pacifier honorees for her
work as the World Health Organization’s Goodwill
Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; and as the founder of the Liya Kedebe Foundation, dedicated to
providing mothers and newborns around the world with better access to health
care.
Ricki Lake gets a nod for her brave appearance in The Business of Being Born, a documentary about alternative birthing options that made its debut earlier this year.
Massachusetts Appeals Court Judge Gary Katzmann is honored for ordering the National Board of Medical Examiners to give Harvard medical student and lactating mother Sophie C. Currier the extra 60 minutes of break time she’d requested so she could pump breast milk during her two-day, nine-hour doctor’s licensing exam.
Also among this year’s Babytalk Golden Pacifier winners:
- Paula Radcliffe, for winning the New York City Marathon less than 10 months after giving birth to daughter Isla.
- Access Hollywood co-host Nancy O’Dell, for not being afraid to admit her use of – and love for – epidurals.
- Kate Gosselin, star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8, for baring her postpartum mommy tummy on air after giving birth to sextuplets.
Press release
8845 points
Let's see you top that one Paris.
Way to point out the respectful act of having a child out of wedlock. Now that is something to aspire to! Seriously, I think it is shameful to have a child on 'accident' because you are too high to use birth control. It's great she has turned her life around, but hardly deserving of an award!
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Right, so since she made one mistake, why not just keep rolling down hill? Give her a break! At least she HAS made some positive changes all around unlike some other starlets out there... Geez!
You disgust me! youhave NO right to judge weather its "right" or not to have a baby if you not married
welcome to the year 2008 miss fussy hen!
Um, your judgment on me might be a little less laughable if you didn't use the wrong word 'weather'. Weather is like rain clouds, heat wave, etc. Whether is the correct word. I'm laughing at your stupidity which is even more funny than your hypocritical 'don't judge other people' comment while you judge me. You won't be winning any awards for your intelligence now will you.
I think it's funny that you criticized someone for their spelling when you used the term "on accident" in your original post. You should have written: "by accident." I guess you won't be winning any awards for your intelligence, now will you? By the way, you might want to review proper sentence structure and punctuation usage before replying.
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I agree with you Sickened. There are too many people have kids and not being married, and it's like so many women are either doing it on purpose to catch the man or they're just idiots.
your disgusting. i hope if you have a daughter she gets knocked up before shes married, lets see if you change your tune then!
people like you make this worls an awful placwe!
Nice. Wishing someone's child gets knocked up is the way to get people to see your wisdom and win their opinion to your side. Must be the same poster who used the word 'weather' since you also used the wrong 'your'. It should be 'you're'.....as in you-are. You're brilliant and kind. NOT!
You may find this shocking, but some people don't believe in the institution of marriage, and have a successful and happy family lives even without a marriage certificate. Also, not everyone who has a child out of wedlock does it "on accident" (nice grammar, by the way). With the divorce rate at an all time high, whether or not someone is married when they choose to have a child is irrelevent.
I don't think Nicole is one of those people who doesn't believe in marriage. That would be someone like Angelina Jolie or Halle Berry. Nicole herself said the pregnancy wasn't planned, as she and Joel had only known each other about 2-3 months before she got pregnant (about as long as Tom and Katie knew each other). But I don't think she tried to trap him, I really think she was just careless. Actually it takes two to tango so they were BOTH careless. But things happen, I couldn't care less since they seem to be taking care of the baby themselves.
No Angelina??? Or am I blind? :D
Good for Nicole!!! Congrats!!! Love her-she's just amazing :)
Congratulations Nicole! You deserve it!
Yep, the whore deserves an award! She is a grade 'A' parent who went to rehab for heroin, drove high the wrong way on the freeway, got pregnant with a boyfriend she barely knew. All of you who are defending her are pathetic. Like you know her better than the rest of us. Do you know she doesn't still do drugs???!!! Do you live with her and see her on a daily live? No. So let's not pretend she is better than she is.
What about Kate from Jon & Kate Plus 8?
Oh c'mon people...there are plenty of married women and men who give parenthood a bad name. If a woman has a baby out of wedlock, I think we live in a day and age where that's not deserving of a Scarlett Letter anymore. She's seemingly providing a happy and loving home for her child. She's using her fame and wealth to support other Moms. (but for all of the haters here - donating to underprivelaged, possibly *gasp* single Moms is probably beneath you anyway)
I'm a married Mom to 2, who is all for Nicole Ritchie!
Surely an award for parenting should go to a person who has successfully brought up a child/children from babyhood to adulthood, and made a success of it? Such a person has been there for their child/children through all stages of growth, and all the ups and downs that family life brings. Ms Richie has been a mother for only a few months to only one child and has the money to buy all the help she needs re running the house and a nanny. Even though they won't be receiving any awards, I admire all those mums (and dads) out there who bring up decent, caring children without any help and on ordinary incomes, which is most people. As for setting up a foundation, (notice their names are on it), I guess that's easy when you have pots of money and can pay someone to do it for you as another publicity stunt. I just cannot understand the attention paid to this woman. She has never achieved anything of note, and became well known for negative behaviour such as drug addiction, starving herself and driving under the influence. She became pregnant to a man she had known for a very short time and all of a sudden she is someone to be admired. If she had killed someone when driving under the influence the wrong way up a freeway, (which is highly likely), I wonder how the parents of that person would be feeling? Keep in mind that the information being fed to the public re Ms Richie's life is carefully manipulated to create an image. The image of her which sticks in my mind is the one her publicity machine could not change, and that was her mugshot after she was arrested.
Sickened this is 2008 get a grip a clue a life
I feel...if shes done a good job....whatever is past is past.... she must be praised for it.
Congrats dear.
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