Why is Illustrator's 'Live Paint' ruining my lines?? please help.

I am new to illustrator but i have managed to get around the basics of creating and coloring illustrations. The other day i created a nice image fine without any problems. But today, when i highlight my image and go to Object>Live Paint (so that i am able to use the live paint bucket tool and color the image). it just screws up the lines and makes it look weird.
Before: http://s3.postimg.org/pnywj9f8z/rffref.png
After Live Paint: http://s21.postimg.org/ywg20q9x3/safuqq.png
Why is this happening?

You used thw width tool to create the lines?
Live paint won't work with anything else than plain strokes (or no strokes at all)
What you can do:
- expand the varibale width strokes
- make a copy of the artwork (so you can keep the live variable strokes) and then live paint the copy

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