Nicole Richie served 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for DUI on Thursday due to jail overcrowding, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Accompanied by her lawyer and boyfriend Joel Madden, the five-months pregnant Richie entered the jail in Lynwood, Calif., at 3:15 p.m. for booking, listed at 5′1″ and 105 lbs. She was processed into the system and released at 4:37 p.m., a sheriff’s statement said.

“Miss Richie was cooperative during the process,” the statement said.

The statement said she was released “based on her sentence and federal court guidelines.” Under the current sheriff’s policy, non-violent female offenders sentenced to 30 days or less are booked and released within 12 hours.

Richie was “treated in the same manner as other inmates with a similar sentence,” the statement said.

Richie, 25, who’s pregnant by Madden, pleaded guilty to DUI on July 27. As part of her sentence, she also agreed to serve a three-year probation term, must enroll in an alcohol education program and was fined $2,048.

She was arrested for DUI on Dec. 11 after being spotted driving her black Mercedes SUV the wrong way on an L.A. freeway. She was previously convicted of DUI in June 2003.

Richie told Diane Sawyer in an interview earlier this month that going to jail was “my way of paying my dues and taking responsibility and being an adult.”

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Sorry I haven’t posted in a while… I just got back from the zoo.  I took the boys, and we met up with a couple of friends (and a cousin - hi Sarah!) this morning around 10:00am.  Every other child in Oregon was there too - it was very hectic.  In our group alone we had 4 mothers - 8 kids and 3 strollers.  It was so hectic that all 4 of us mothers are meeting again tonight - minus kids - for some drinks.  Only a couple weeks left until school starts!

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Nicole Richie finally addresses her weight in her recent interview with Dianne Sawyer.

Diane Sawyer asked how the socialite intends to transform herself into – in Richie’s words – “a very healthy and respectable” mother.

One of Sawyer’s main concerns, the ABC anchor said on Friday’s part two of her Good Morning America interview with Richie (more from the Q&A will air on Friday’s 20/20), was whether the formerly ultra-thin Simple Life star is finally eating – and not endangering the baby she’s carrying.

“Do I eat is kind of an understatement,” said Richie, who is four months pregnant. “I eat all the time, especially now. I’m constantly hungry. I’m eating at least every hour.”

Sounding neither defensive nor particularly alarmed, Richie, 25, said, “Just like any mother, you know, you want to take the best care of yourself, especially while you’re pregnant. And I’m definitely eating healthier now, and I’m really playing by the rules.”

By that, Richie said, “I do not drink caffeine at all, cut out sushi” – and, in response to questions from Sawyer, who had also mentioned Richie’s cocaine and heroin use – “No alcohol … No marijuana … No pills … Nothing … No smoking around me.”

Richie’s boyfriend and father of her child, Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden, at that point told Sawyer that he had “a tough week” giving up his pack-and-a-half-a-day cigarette habit.

Richie also said, “I’m totally okay” with gaining 40 or 50 lbs. during her pregnancy if “that is what my body needs to do.”

Earlier in the interview, Sawyer had confronted Richie with photos that displayed the socialite’s skeletal frame, and asked if Richie felt any responsibility for the impression such images might make on little girls in regard to body image.

“I’m really sorry for not accepting that earlier,” Richie replied. “It took me a while.” As for what Richie sees when she looks at those photos, she said, “I see a girl that is obviously going through something and is much too skinny.”

Asked point blank if she has an eating disorder, Richie said, “No, I do not have an eating disorder. I’ve never had an eating disorder. Ever. … It’s anxiety. It’s stress. It’s just not being careful.”

Was it drug-related? “I think it possibly could have been,” said Richie.

Richie also acknowledged Sawyer’s observation that the socialite looked close to death, but Richie says she was not.

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