Nicole Richie to Design, Model New Clothing Line

Nicole Richie is known for her boho-chic style and her Hollywood pedigree – and with fans like Madonna wearing her House of Harlow 1960 jewelry line, her design career couldn’t be hotter. But it’s about to get hotter still.

Hotter in a cute, maternal kind of way.

Pregnant with her second child (daughter Harlow Madden is 19 months old), the star has signed on to create (and model) a line of maternity clothes with Nicole’s signature flair for A Pea in the Pod, a higher-end maternity fashion line.

Richie said that a collaboration was an easy call since “Pea in the Pod is such a known company for pregnant women. They carry great lines, and so when they asked me to create a line for them, I was really excited and eager to do it.”

Being pregnant herself means Nicole is considerate of her customers: “You feel like you have to change your whole wardrobe – the last thing a woman wants to go through. So I really tried to make this line to get women excited.”

Nicole admits she doesn’t always wear maternity clothes, but thinks the pregnant form should be flaunted: “I think the pregnant body is beautiful, and I think you should show it off,” citing her jean cutoffs as a go-to this pregnancy.