When you're a star, even minor medical issues make news. In recent days, several famous faces have been feeling a wee bit under the weather, with afflictions ranging from swooning to blowing chunks. Here's a rundown of who's been illin', ranked from least to most stomach-churning:

Jennifer Garner is back in the pink after keeling over on the Arizona set of "The Kingdom." "Access Hollywood" reports the actress passed out from the heat on Aug. 4 and spent the night in the hospital. Trouper that she is, she soon returned to work. Garner's fainting spell probably explains why hubby Ben Affleck jetted out of Boston on Aug. 5 mere hours before the wrap party for his directorial debut, "Gone, Baby, Gone." When asked by "Access" on Saturday for an update on his wife's condition, Affleck gushed, "She's great. Absolutely fabulous. Today she's in a desert, upside-down, spinning around in a car that's pretending to have been blown up in 110-degree heat in Phoenix."

Even Veronica Mars can have trouble cracking the mysteries of the car door. Kristen Bell made a beeline for the hospital last Wednesday after slamming her hand during an automotive mishap, says "Access Hollywood." "[She] was afraid she'd broken a bone, but luckily didn't and is fine now," explains her rep. Which makes us wonder why we're even telling you this, so moving on ...

Is Paris Hilton's pet kinkajou trying to communicate its unhappiness the only way it knows how? Baby Luv sank its teeth into the critter-collecting starlet's arm in the wee hours of Tuesday morning after becoming overly excited during playtime, according to the AP. Paris immediately called her vacation-needing publicist, Elliot Mintz, who drove her to the hospital for a tetanus shot. The next day, a vet checked out Baby Luv, who also allegedly attacked Paris last November after becoming overly excited in a Las Vegas lingerie boutique. "I don't view kinkajous as aggressive animals," downplays Mintz of the exotic animals, which are known as much for their inability to be housetrained as their tendency to turn quickly from nice to nasty. "The same kind of thing could have occurred with a German shepherd."

Is Pete Doherty so over the moon to be back with Kate Moss that he has butterflies in his stomach? The substance-susceptible rocker seemed to be in serious need of some Pepto-Bismol before a performance in London Friday night, when he "barged" into the women's restroom and "puked his guts up," reports the Sunday Mirror. Prior to the supposed spewing, Doherty was spied tongue-wrestling with the rehabbed supermodel, who has been sporting a worrying sparkler on her all-important finger. The trouble-magnet Babyshambles frontman, who's attempting to stay on the straight and narrow, seemed to be feeling better the following night, when he and Moss hosted a shindig in London for some pals. "Pete was telling everyone he loves Kate and is desperate to marry her," a snitch informs the London Sun. "He looked healthier than I've seen him for a long while -- he looked well over it."

And finally, in a story we urge you to take with a heapin' helping of salt (hold the tequila chaser), the New York Observer says Nicole Richie may have overdone it during a night out at L.A. hotspot Hyde last week. Seems the starlet, who, sadly, was snapped a few days back in a bikini looking more cadaverous than ever, was "getting into the party spirit" with the likes of Mary-Kate Olsen when things took a sickening turn. "Nicole puked right on the floor, like right in the middle of the club," maintains a mole. "Everyone saw! But I guess she didn't care. She kept partying." According to the insider, "She loves tequila. But you know, she's so small -- and she probably didn't eat anything that day. So you know, she probably had a couple shots and it just happened. She was just having a good time."