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Nicole Richie:" I did not have a gastric bypass surgery!"

The Simple Life star strongly denies rumors that claim she had a gastric bypass surgery in order to help her lose some weight and that now she had to remove the device because she lost too many kilos.

In her website journal, Nicole Richie insists that none of the rumors media created around her weight loss are true. The star claims that she definitely had no gastric bypass surgery in the first place, not to even mention having had it reversed.

"So I gain a little bit of weight, and I'm accused of having a gastric bypass surgery reversed?" Nicole says in a blog entry on her myspace.com account.

"Anyone that knows anything about this surgery would know that legally, you must be at least 100 pounds overweight to even have the surgery done, and is a serious, life changing procedure; not one to throw around as a joke or a rumor. I've given a statement I am in the process of putting on weight, and that should be enough. It's a shame to hear that instead of hearing supportive words, someone needs to spin it into some negative, absurd way," she added.

During the past few years, Richie struggled with thousand of speculations regarding her weight.

In early 2005, there was a tabloid speculating her having an eating disorder. Richie, however, said that "I've always been really skinny. I just went through a heavier stage after rehab and during Simple Life 1. Now I have a trainer and the weight has gradually come off."

In a May 2006 Vanity Fair interview Richie acknowledged that she knew she was too thin and stated that she was on the path of gaining weight.

In the past few months Nicole gained a few kilos and started looking healthier. Asked about this spectacular change, Richie replied that she owns it all to the medical help she is receiving.