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"Snap! Snap! Snap! Sofia Richie is sprawled across the piano in her dad's sunroom, her chin cupped in her hands and her feet kicked up in the air, mugging for our photographer, when Lionel Richie enters the room and stops in his tracks. \"Who authorized this? Get off that piano this second!\" he admonishes, before flashing an ear-to-ear grin and winking at the crew. He could be forgiven for any concern. This is, after all, the piano he's written all of his songs at\u2014recordings that have earned him Grammys and an Oscar. But that's not the Richie style.\n\n\"We like to play pranks,\" Sofia says of her family, which includes dad Lionel, mom Diane, brother Miles, and older sister Nicole. \"My dad always jokes that we should have a reality TV show because my friends and I pull crazy stunts, like putting Saran Wrap on the toilet.\" Thankfully, this Saturday morning is plastic-wrap-free, but a steady stream of friends do come and go throughout the day.\n\nAfter we wrap around 6 p.m., Sofia heads to a Samantha Ronson music video shoot, which Nicole has secured her a cameo in. \"It went till, like, two in the morning,\" Sofia reports afterward. \"It was horrible, but so much fun!\"\n\nLife as a Richie certainly has its perks. When Sofia was growing up, her dad taught her how to play the piano to his own songs (\"Ballerina Girl\" is her favorite). She considered Michael Jackson to be like a godfather and counts Paris Jackson as one of her close friends (\"She came over the other day, and we went to the mall, watched Harry Potter, and went swimming,\" she says). Her thirteenth birthday was celebrated with a carnival-themed party\u2014 roller coasters, Ferris wheels, and go-karts included. And then there's the matter of wardrobe. When she needs something to wear, Sofia raids her sister's \"humongous\" closet for Balenciaga bags or House of Harlow 1960 shades. \"Sometimes I go over to her house when she's out of town, and I steal stuff\u2014the nanny lets me in,\" she says. Nicole's 200-plus-deep collection of sunglasses is an obvious highlight, but Sofia admits she's still a step or two behind when it comes to her sister's signature platform heels. \"I love Christian Louboutin,\" she says, \"but I can't walk in them yet.\"\n\nNonetheless, following in her father's and sister's footsteps is in her game plan. \"I'm always in the studio with my dad,\" she says. \"I've written a few songs. I'll start off writing rhymes, then freestyles, then I add in beats.\" Her dad insists she waits till she's older before working on an album, but Sofia is already being courted by producers. \"Joel [Madden] is always like, 'Let me produce your first record!' \" she says of her brother-in-law and Good Charlotte's front man. \"He takes me to the studio for voice lessons, and we write together. He's really cool. He's one of my best friends.\"\n\nJoel may be her BFF, but her partner in fashion crime is her sister. \"Nicole is definitely my style icon, and she's the best person to go shopping with. She's really honest. Other people are afraid to hurt your feelings, so they'll tell you something's cute when it isn't, but she'll be like, 'No, discard that,'\" says Sofia. \"When I'm older, if I'm successful at everything, I want to come out with a clothing line.\" Does Nicole have any advice for her? \"She always tells me to enjoy childhood,\" says Sofia, \"because it doesn't last forever.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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