Nicole Ritchie has opened up about her relationship with Joel Madden saying it “takes work”.
The reality TV star sat down with Oprah Winfrey to talk about her three-and-a-half year marriage toThe Voice Australiacoach.
“We met and we were partners from day one. And from the second we found out we were going to be parents together, we looked at each other and we said, ‘OK, both of our parents are divorced. We both have had ups and downs with our parents and we don’t really have a strong example of what a healthy family life is,” she said.
“But, we’re recognising that now, so let’s work at it and let’s go through this together as a team.’
“It’s been great. And I would say that’s the easiest and hardest part.”
The pair have spent some time apart recently due to their conflicting work schedules.
Nicole, 32, also told Oprah that she is learning to be a parent to the couple’s two children Harlow, 6, and Sparrow, 4, more and more every day.
“There’s always room for improvement,” she said
“I have to always come from a place of love and compassion with them. My kids operate best when I let them have a voice. I really explain things to them, because really, kids want to be told the truth. They just do. They just want you to be truthful.
“And they know you more than you know yourself.”
Nicole also opened up her rise to stardom following her role in the hit reality TV show The Simple Life alongside her best friend at the time Paris Hilton.
“The Simple Life was definitely one of the first five reality shows just to be out ever,” she said, “so I had no understanding of [what to expect] because there were no examples of it. There was no precedent,” she said.
“To me, it was extremely fun. I was 21, 22. Somebody asked me if I wanted to go away with my best friend for 30 days and get paid for it. I went into it like that. I thought, ‘This is like backpacking, except I’m going to do it this way…in front of people.”
Now the star of her own TV show #Candidlynicole, the daughter singer Lionel Richie says she has always connected herself to fame.
“Fame, on some level, has always been in my life,” she says. “I do feel like I have an understanding of that.”
