Friends since age 2
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have been friends since they were two years old, attending the same school and sharing piano and tap lessons.
Snapshot · Call Her Daddy
Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie: Queens of the 2000’s (FBF)
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Jun 12, 2026
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Childhood: Growing Up Together Since Age 2
At 13:13 · chapter starts 7:46
The friendship origin story is more extreme than most listeners probably imagined. Nicole drops the detail almost casually: they met at age two, attended the same school, shared the same piano teacher outside of school, performed in the same tap recital, and graduated together into orchestra. Nicole's mom would buy six copies of a shirt and bedazzle them — shoulder pads included, because it was the late '80s — to dress the girls as twins. As tweens, they shopped together at Contempo Casuals and Judy's, always coming home with the same outfits. Their reputation in the group was also fused: if the clique's ringleader fell out with one, both were out by default. It's a picture of a friendship so deeply embedded in daily life that it was less a choice than an infrastructure.
BFFs Since Age 2: How Paris and Nicole's Friendship Started
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have been inseparable since the age of two. Their lives were so intertwined growing up — same school, same extracurriculars, matching outfits bought by Nicole's mom — that they were treated as a single unit. If one got socially exiled, both were out.
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