Nicole Richie’s 40th birthday celebration nearly went up in smoke when her hair caught fire while she was blowing out her candles.
via: People
In a video shared on Instagram, Richie sat at a table with a birthday cake in front of her. The sweet treat had a throwback photo of the fashion designer and read “Happy Birthday Nicole” in white frosting.
But as Richie leaned in to blow out the candles, her hair managed to catch fire.
She pulled back from the cake to notice the tips of her hair aflame, and let out a scream as she and someone next to her batted out the flames.
“Well… so far 40 is ?” she captioned the post.
Richie’s husband Joel Madden joked “that’s hot” in the comments section.
Richie and Madden share daughter Harlow Winter Kate, 13, and son Sparrow James Midnight, 11. In July, Richie spoke to PEOPLE about her experience as a mother during the pandemic.
“I’ve just learned to listen, to really take a pause and listen,” she told PEOPLE. “I’ve always stressed that going outside and being in nature is important, but it really became a true necessity once everyone was locked into their computers, Zoom work, all of the things. We really had to make an effort to go outside and be in nature and connect to the earth. I think that is something we have to prioritize in our lives.”
Richie added that Harlow and Sparrow had “completely different experiences” in quarantine, however, the “one through line was — especially last school year — it was really hard.”
“We were all in shock and everyone was trying to figure out how to make it work,” she said, adding, “Everything was happening at once and I think everyone was just trying to make it work, and then we had the summer to kind of prepare for that new [school] year and the kids, they just did it. They gave it their all. … It just really made me so proud of them.”
During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Richie revealed how she’d feel if her kids were to appear on reality TV. She said that once they turn 18, she would be “fine with it.”
“I think it would be a different thing going into it now, it just depends on what it is,” the former Simple Life star said of the current world of reality TV.
“But if my kids said to me, ‘I want to try this new thing that hasn’t been done before.’ You just say… Well, obviously now they’re preteen, so I’m going to say no. But yeah, if they’re 18 and they want to go do whatever it is, as long as it feels good and authentic to them, I’m fine with it,” Richie shared.
Happy Birthday Nicole, and make sure you keep that hair moisturized.
