Bad Girls: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

IN THE EARLY 2000S, IT WASN’T A PARTY WITHOUT NICOLE RICHIE, TARA REID AND LINDSAY LOHAN. STAR INVESTIGATES WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THEY QUIT CLUBBING.

Nicole Richie

THEN: The Simple Life star famously spent 82 minutes behind bars in 2007 — her four-day sentence reduced because of overcrowding in the jail system. That wasn’t the first time the 41-year-old adopted daughter of Lionel Richie and his first wife, Brenda, got into trouble. The party girl was arrested four times, including for heroin possession (she was sentenced to three years’ probation) and did several stints in rehab for addictions to cocaine, heroine and prescription pills. She later pointed to her parents’ 1993 divorce as a factor in her acting out. “Their way of making me happy was to say yes to anything I wanted,” she said. “But I don’t think a little girl should have that much freedom.”

“Change is all about making a decision to change,” Nicole has said, adding, “I’ve made a decision to not let myself go.”

NOW: Meeting now-husband Joel Maddon in 2006 spurred Nicole to turn her life around. Five months pregnant when she went to jail, she later reflected, “It’s been a pattern in my life — when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it. And the difference is, is that I’m a mother now and not only thinking about myself.” Now a mom of two, Nicole founded the fashion label House of Harlow and starred in the sitcom Great News. And instead of raising hell, she’s raising chickens! “If Martha Stewart has some,” she’s said of her flock. “I need them too!”

Tara Reid