Nicole Richie is doing everything possible to give her kids the normal childhood she never had.
In the September issue of DuJour magazine, the 30-year-old Winter Kate fashion designer opens up about how how being raised in the entertainment industry influenced her ideas about motherhood. (Richie and her husband, Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden, 33, are parents to daughter Harlow, 4, and son Sparrow, 3.)
“One of the biggest differences in the way I’m raising my kids versus the way I was raised is that I was on tour a lot. I don’t really do that with my kids,” Nicole says. “It’s important to me that they have stability. I like them to be home.”
Nicole was raised in L.A. by her adoptive parents, chart-topping singer Lionel Richie and his then-wife, Brenda. “I was taken out of school and had tutors,” Nicole recalls. “By the time my father went onstage, I was asleep.”