Newsflash: Pregnant women are moody!

Nicole Richie

Now we aren’t ones to gossip, so you didn’t hear this from us, but word is Nicole Richie, who announced her second pregnancy in February, is driving her friends and family nuts with a rash of intense and emotional mood swings.

“She goes from one extreme to the other in an instant,” a snitch blabs in the March 30 issue of The National Enquirer.

Nearly everyone in Nic’s life has been subjected to such tantrums in recent weeks, but no one more than the socialite’s live-in love, Joel Madden.

“Nicole is needy and insecure to the point that she wants Joel with her all the time.”

“It takes almost nothing to set Nicole off or start her crying,” the spy continues.

Nicole is also struggling with jealously issues as she goes closer to her due date. “She goes through Joel’s cell phone,” the insider divulged. “Recently she found a picture of another girl-a fan-and Nicole went on a jealous tirade that ended in tears.”

“If he runs out for coffee, Nicole times him and then reads him the riot act for taking too long.”

Joel and Nicole already have one daughter, Harlow, born in January 2008.