Nicole Richie's frighteningly thin frame shocked the gossip world when she was snapped running on the beach with a blue bikini hanging from her body in 2006.
Six years, and two children later, Richie stepped out showing off her curves and her healthy bikini shape, soaking up the sun in Miami.
The Fashion Star mentor looked stunning in a plain burgundy two-piece as she strolled around the pool yesterday.
Nicole showed off her healthier figure as she enjoyed a lazy day at her South Beach hotel.
Nicole was seen making the most of a large sunbed, spreading herself out across the lounger to top up her tan.
But while she might be an enjoying a relaxing day away from home it seemed that the designer wasn't far from her work - she was seen playing with her iPhone as she topped up the tan.
Her incredible shape now is dramatically different to her appearance in 2006 - when a photo of her running down the beach showed her looking emaciated and ill.
At the time Lionel Richie's adopted daughter acknowledged she was too thin and opened up to Vanity Fair magazine about the issue.
She said: 'I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.
'I do know that they will, which is another reason I really do need to do something about it. I'm not happy with the way I look right now.'
Nicole attributed her weight loss to a break-up from former fiance Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM.
She said: 'I had a bad breakup, and it eats me up inside when I'm upset about something.'
'I get really stressed out, and I do lose my appetite, but I do force myself to eat.
'I tried to put the weight on my way, eating burritos, but that wasn't working, so I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor.'
