The 30-year-old star recently opened up to Extra and said she likes to pull pranks on Madden when she wakes up before him and their two children - Harlow, three, and Sparrow, two.
She said: 'I wake up between 5:30 and 6:00, while the rest of my family wakes up 7:00-7:30. There's no one to bother me, but I do like to call my friends and wake them up.
'Or sometimes I'll draw on Joel's face. Mostly, he's the butt of my jokes.'
Richie also spoke about her daughter Harlow's fashion.
She said: 'Sometimes she gets dressed, and I'm like: 'Ehhh.' But it's a form of self-expression.'