First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Nicole Richie with the baby carriage!

Nic and her Good Charlotte BF, Joel Madden, may be expecting! Whispers of a baby bump on skinny mini Nicole have been clogging up the rumor mills, and a recent sighting of a diamond engagement ring on her tiny finger at a Center Dance Arts benefit is sending gossipers into overdrive. Nicole and Joel even passed on alcohol at the event, the New York Post reports.

Are Nicole and Joel on their way to parenthood? Only time (and an increasingly bigger bump) will tell...