Pregnant Nicole Richie is "eating healthier"

After much speculation, the rumors were finally confirmed: Nicole Richie is pregnant. However, there was still serious concern about the health of the baby -- especially in light of photos that revealed Richie's skeletal frame.

However, the socialite, who is four months along, told Diane Sawyer in an interview this morning that she recognizes she was too skinny, and that now she "eat[s] all the time" -- adding that she's "totally okay" with gaining 40 or 50 lbs if that's what her "body needs to do."

Richie also said she's cut out alcohol and drugs -- including caffeine -- and has even made boyfriend Joel Madden (the father of her baby) quit cigarettes so she wouldn't be surrounded by smoke.

This is good news -- not only for Richie and her unborn child -- but for the millions of young women that look to her as a role model (for better or worse). I can only imagine the message an ultra-skinny, pill-popping expectant celebrity mother would send to these women. Let's hope, for everyone's sake, that Richie manages to keep her life under control.