Nicole Richie has admitted she has an eating problem.

The socialite told Vanity Fair magazine: "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.'"

Richie has been pictured as increasingly thin in recent months. She explained: "I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor... I do recognise that I have a problem, and I want to be responsible and fix it, and I'm on that path right now."