Nicole Richie: From Wild Child to Joel Madden's It Bride!

See how the former reality star transformed into a trendsetting mother of two and Joel Madden's loving wife

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FIRST LOVE

Scrapping her stringy extensions and party-girl style, a slimmed-down Richie, 23, finds love with 32-year-old spinmeister Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein – who proposes to Lionel and Brenda Richie's little girl with an emerald-cut diamond ring, followed by a companion diamond-and-pink-sapphire band in 2005. After enduring an on-and-off again romance, the pair splits for good in 2006 – three years before Goldstein's accidental drug overdose on Aug. 28, 2009.