Two years in making my first record were the longest two years of my life because you have other artists coming out and you were even signed before them you know you see all these people coming out and you’re like wait wait is that supposed to be me you know what i mean so it was kind of frustrating um to like sit back and watch everybody else do their thing and i all of a sudden felt the pressure of having to be just as good everybody was just harping on me gaining some extra pounds this is the
Photo that they i think started the whole thing right i never wanted to share these like things that were happening i was a preacher’s daughter like i was a virgin until i got married do you have a wonder who else is [ __ ] your man getting divorced absolutely not getting separated absolutely not it was this picture in september of a solo jessica without that sparkling diamond wedding ring i want to be more famous on the internet me me the waiter just took my table and gave it to jessica simps hi i’m shelby and i’m jake welcome
To deep dive where we dive into told and untold stories if it happens it’s probably an a deep dive now today we are diving into the topsy turvy newly wed world of jessica simpson starting with her uncertain childhood jake and i are going to get into jessica’s twisted beginnings and her preacher father then me and shelby are going to dive into jessica simpson’s 1997 pop record deal that would quickly transform into a reality tv empire that she shared with her husband nick that would then transform into a billion dooll
Merchandise and fashion empire however trouble impaired swiftly ensued and jessica simpson was left in a cluster of emotions here she would make a decision that would populate every grocery store checkout aisle for years and years to come and jessica’s career unfortunately would never recover and that’s just the beginning but before we dive into this brand new deep dive episode shelby has something to tell y’all if you watch deep dive regularly then you know we absolutely love today’s sponsor factor it’s almost fall y’all
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Jessica her younger sister ashley and her mom tina had to regularly pack up their entire liv and move all around the large state of texas due to jessica’s father joe simpson see joe was a traveling minister who would do outreach at numerous churches through the years letting his christian influence run deep in the state of texas jessica was obviously very involved in the church being a minister’s daughter and as she belted out hymns of the church choir she discovered her love of singing by the time jessica was 11 years old she knew
She was destined to be a star singing on the choir or at church retreats just wasn’t enough anymore she was ready to start pursuing her career as a professional singer at this time it was the very early 9s and if a young talented child wanted to get their foot in the door into the entertainment industry there was no better way than becoming a mouse cer on the legendary mickey mouse club it was the year 1992 when a then 12-year-old jessica simpson would audition for the mickey mouse club by singing amazing grace a capella her
Incred edible voice would land her a spot in the final rounds of auditions now as we know from previous deep dives disney is very serious about their child stars being a triple threat so the final rounds of auditions take place at a disney boot camp if you will all the kids are provided with vocal acting and dancing coaches where they prepare for the big day that would determine if they become a mousketeer or not now remember this was 1992 so jessica wasn’t up against just anybody 1992 was the biggest year for the the mickey mouse
Club in terms of talent jessica simpson was competing against a then child christina agilera justin timberlake and britney spears at the time all these kids already had experience in the entertainment industry whether it was being on star search or off broadway plays plus they had been training for this very moment for years this made a little jessica incredibly nervous to perform her final audition that year the competition at the uh camp was extremely tough it was the most talented group of kids that i’d found in the 5 years of
Going out and looking for musketeers with britney and justin and with christina i do remember when britney spears came in because she looked a lot like jessica i looked at her and i looked at my husband i was like whoa i mean like justin timberlake had done star search christina agilera had been singing like incredibly for quite a while now so it was um pretty overwhelming to get down there and then see all these kids with this amazing talent you know they had resumés and they had portfolios with these you know great pictures and
Pictures of the events they had done jessica had a polaroid that’s all we had and we didn’t know we were supposed to have anything else and we had no experience so we had no resume either it was like whoa okay we’re maybe a little out of our league here we had this very intense 3-day sort of mouse club training camp where they had intense acting singing and and dancing classes the last day they have to do this fullon like perform basically right before jessica was supposed to do her thing she came into the green room and it was up on the tv
The little monitor was and she starts watching and the girl that went in front of her was christina agila and so jessica starts watching her and she just sat there with her mouth open i got to tell you i wouldn’t want to follow christina it intimidated the heck out of her because she was just like it hit her she’s like oh my gosh this is my competition i’ve got to be as good as her she was next so she went out to perform and it’s all done in front of the camera and jess had never done camera work before and she had four
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Cameras and lights slamming her and this is her first time ever out in a situation like that it was just like a dear looking headlights see got words to her song see blew the acting audition 10 an hour sitting there going oh my god what just happened to our baby i will never forget when she walked out the door that justin timberlake was standing right there and he looked at her like you know with his mouth like wide open like oh jessica you just messed it up bad we knew in our gut we’re done now jessica was pretty
Devastated when she didn’t become a mousketeer but her family really encouraged her to keep pursuing her dreams and to not just simply give up so she started working with a vocal coach to help develop her voice and master her craft jessica said her father joe simpson was incredibly supportive of her efforts to become a star now also around this time when jessica was still 12 years old he held a quote purity ceremony for his then pre-teen daughter basically joe gave jessica a purity ring and had her vow to stay a virgin until
Marriage he also vowed to be the only only man in her life until she married now this will become important later on in the story anywh who joe would use the church to help propel his daughter’s career just one year later when jessica was 13 she was performing amazing grace acappella again this time at church camp a man named buster who was a guest speaker of the camp just so happened to be launching a christian gospel record label called proclaim records after hearing jessica perform he knew he had to have her jessica was signed onto the
Lab and immediately began work on her album self-titled jessica she worked on this album for over 2 years and when jessica was only 16 years old she was finally ready to release the album but it was at that moment when proclaim records went bankrupt and completely folded thus letting jessica simpson’s christian pop career slip through the cracks once again yet again jessica was so close to her dreams becoming a reality just for everything to come crashing down at the last best possible moment well this time it was jessica’s
Grandma who is not going to let her give up her grandma bankrolled the album to be pressed and mixed and for jessica and her father joe to start making the rounds in the christian music circuit basically the duo would travel around from church to church joe would preach to young kids then jessica would be the featured musical performance afterwards they would then try to sell jessica’s album to the churchgoers jessica and her father would travel all over texas sharing their gospel in music with the world after a while jessica actually
Started to gain some notoriety in the spiritual music scene she began touring and opening for various faith-based artists this is when she would try to score a record deal with another christian-based label but they basically told her that she was way too pretty and basically that her breasts were too large and boys would lust over her jessica now realized that in order to make it in the industry she needed to divert her energy to secular music a young jessica simpson would drop out of high school in pursuit of a mainstream
Career and joe simpson would hire an entertainment attorney by the name of tim metal bomb in 1997 tim set up nine showcases with various record label executives in hopes jessica would get signed columbia record executives were very impressed so they arranged for jessica to sing for the ceo tommy mata in his office you know tommy mata the old guy who discovered and met mariah when she was only 18 years old and then proceeded to marry her yeah that guy is it true that you went into tommy m’s office and sang for him lying yes i
Staying live no music just just acappella and how did you get the meeting did you have you had a manager or something yeah well actually my anr at at columbia is the one who set set it up so i love her exactly i sing live in n for nine record labels and two days and then he’s the one who picked it there you go that must be exciting for you at just a 10e age of high school my gosh tommy mata signed jessica simpson on the spot for a four album contract he allegedly even promised to release her debut album in 6 months and while the
Ink was still drying on the contract he turned to jessica and told her to lose 15 lb this would mark the beginning of jessica experiencing horrific body shaming for decades but more on that a little later now jessica’s debut album was not released within 6 months as allegedly promised she wound up working on it for just over 2 years the 2 years in making my first record were the longest 2 years of my life because you have other artists coming out and you were even signed before them you know i me you see all these people
Coming out you’re like wait wait is that supposed to be me you know what i mean so it was kind of frustrating um to like sit back and watch everybody else do their thing and i all of a sudden felt the pressure of having to be just as good you know and that’s hard especially at 177 18 years old i’ve been in the studio for a year and a half now working on this album and we’ve tried our hardest to pick the best out of everything i wouldn’t take it back for anything the length of how long it’s taking and stuff because i’m i feel like i’m finding the
Best of the best you know when i first heard the song um my producer just sang it for me and i was like i have to have that because it was just so meant to be it was so perfect every word that is in that i’ve experienced so even though i didn’t write it it it can still come out as if i did write it because i have experienced it and somebody who’s been through that doesn’t want to sit and listen to a song and just be really sad and just be like oh my gosh i lost this person they want to feel comforted they want you know to feel embraced and i
Think this song really embraces you it really embraces all your emotions because it makes you sad it makes you happy i heard this song a year ago and i’ve dreamt i’ve dreamt about doing this as a duet and it’s all falling into place and i’m so thankful for it and in 1999 during the album’s development jessica attended the hollywood holiday parade she didn’t know it at the time but her life was about to change lead singer of 98° nick lee was also at the parade the two would meet and jessica said she fell in love instantly my mom
Was with us and i said mom you’re you know your mission for tonight is to get me in good with this girl i immediately was in love with him like you can be in love with 18 i definitely was hands down the romance developed quickly as nick realized jessica could be more than just a musical partner she has a real special spirit about her i think that couple weeks into talking to her i just got a real strong vibe that this was not just you know going to go away that i really did like this girl a lot jessica and nick would even record a
Duet and film a music video for the song where you are which was slated to come out on jessica ‘s upcoming album everything in jessica’s life was seemingly perfect but her album was taking too long to develop so long in fact that jessica’s old competition from the mickey mouse club came seemingly out of nowhere and started dropping some of the most iconic albums in pop history in 1999 britney spears released her single baby one more time by january 1999 her album baby one more time took the world by storm christina aguilera’s debut
Self-titled album released in august of 1999 and now it was jessica’s turn and yet again just like when they were kids she was coming out right after christina and it would prove to be an impossible act to follow on november 23rd 1999 jessica released her debut studio album titled sweet kisses and the winner of the big styland and5 is choice breakout artist you guys want to know who won who do you think won jessica simpson j simps jessica simpson sing keep baby i’m feel baby i want to ride seight there were two pretty big hits
Off the album i want to love you forever and i think i’m in love with you sweet kisses even had a destiny’s child feature but unfortunately the album sales were much lower than the record label had expected colombia records needed to market jessica differently they had to set her apart from britney and christina to help push the album so they marketed her as the ballad singing good christian girl who doesn’t show her belly or dance provocatively britney’s very successful and she’s very good at what she does so in some ways i take
That as a compliment my single i want to love you forever it gives me a chance to sing you know and i think when people listen to that song they automatically respect me as a singer and u that’s really what we want to establish so i think that the comparison yeah we all we both have long blonde hair and we’re young but i think that that’s where it stopped the record label took it a step further in their anti-sex appeal approach and started using jessica’s virginity as a marketing ploy during the pr run for her album jessica would often
Be inappropriately asked about her virginity in an interview for teen people in early 2000 she was quoted saying she promised god her father and her future husband that she would remain a virgin until marriage well this story generated a lot of attention so much so that teen people said they received more reader mail in regards to that story than any other story of the year her second single off of that album where you are was a duet with nick people wanted to know know about them and she told the magazine that she wanted to be
A virgin everybody sort of freaked out about it that became like a big media bliss and it was like everybody knew jessica simpson the virgin you know and it she was just kind of like known for that now if you grew up in the early 2000s then you remember how absolutely obsessed the media became with jessica’s virginity jessica’s purity ring falling off while she was opening for the ricky martin tour actually made headlines she even went on to appear in that 70s show where her character was a virgin let’s do it michael i don’t do
That i’m a virgin what h coincidence me too so let’s do it you first timers yeah despite all of the media tension surrounding jessica’s good girl image it just wasn’t translating into album sales so executives at colombia decided it was time to up the sex appeal and revamp jessica’s image to be more like britney and christina i never really felt comfortable in the whole like young pop culture thing like i literally thought that i was signed for my voice they were trying to make me different than britney and christina and
Because they were doing the crop tops and the dancing and that whole thing and because i was not comfortable with doing that and i just wanted to sing you know and it and it was it was successful but then they started pushing the crop tops and dancing on me because it’s a record label and they wanted to sell albums but there was no way i was going to be able to sell as many albums as britney spears or christina ulara she was feeling a lot of pressure from a lot of different people there are those people that
Believe sex cells and have made great careers off of it she really had to wear her pants lower and pull her shirts up higher and you know show more cleavage and more makeup and all these things that just weren’t jessica there were definitely people around her who felt that she should be thinner that she should be more cut you need to be smaller you need to look like britney or christina they were wanting her to work out so she got on the atkins diet and she was getting ready to shoot her video irresistible and she got down to 102 lb she was told
Okay you look great but for the next video think you could have a six-pack you’re not sk enough when she was like 102 lb what are you talking about are you crazy with the record label’s new vision for jessica and plays they got her in the studio to begin work on her next studio album titled irresistible this album would be a total 180 from her debut album tommy mata would take complete control of this project jessica had very little creative input and had no songwriting credits unlike in her first album irresistible released in may
Of 2001 in terms of commercial success the album did moderately well however the reviews for the album were pretty horrible jessica was called a britney copycat and that the album was just more redundant music to come out of the early 2000s pop machine jessica also faced a lot of criticism for her sexy new look and dance moves and how that conflicted with her image up to this point around this time jessica was also struggling in her personal life she would lay in bed and cry at night she just always felt like she couldn’t be good enough like
She could never achieve what everybody wanted her to achieve she just sort of like being pulled this way and then that way in the midst of that she broke up nick she was now 21 years old but she had been dating nicke since she was 18 years old nick being 7 years older was in a place where he was ready to settle down jessica just felt like she hadn’t experienced the world yet so she broke up with nick which of course made headlines since they had been such a public couple who often performed together nick happened to be at newark airport
911 through the windows of the terminal we watched it all you know happen it was a scary scary scary time and the first person i called was was jessica he’s like i’m in the airport i don’t know what to do you’ve got to you know talk to me i’m scared that biged her out obviously and out of that she realized her love for him all i hear saying was don’t get off the phone you can’t get off the phone with me i love you oh my gosh i love you so much you’ve got to come back to me she said you know come come out here come to me she hung
Up the phone and said i’m going to marry him he’s going to come back here and we’re going to get married by february of 2002 nick would propose to jessica in hawaii jessica was so happy and excited that she immediately ran to her website and announced her engagement but there were quite a few people who were less than ecstatic about the engagement both jess and nick’s record labels thought it was a horrible idea that would severely impact album sales they were both pop stars and sex symbols so their record labels feared that marriage would take
Away that fantasy but no one seemed to be more upset than joe simpson jessica’s dad who was also her manager joe said that jessica was way too dependent on nick that nick was not ready for commitment and that jessica was far too young to get married in jessica’s book she said that her dad had never said no to the label even when he was constantly complaining about how the label marketed her but he now had no problem in berading her when it came to her engagement nick and jessica were not going to let the opinions of others stop
Them so they got started planning their giant texas wedding during the wedding planning and mind you at this time nick was making more money than jessica he had approached jessica to sign a prenup but at the time jessica refused jessica and nick got married on october 26th 6 2002 and with that the media started their new obsession over jessica and nick’s wedding night now if you thought the media’s obsession over jessica’s virginity was bad well this seemed to be even worse pretty much every interviewer would ask the couple let’s just say very
Intimate questions that they should not be asking what if the sex was bad i mean like literally like you couldn’t get it up i mean she doesn’t know the i think she knew i could get it up well say your picture draw the first time you banged her did she did she walk out of the room in like a sexy outfit like there’s got to be a big buildup you’re like oh my god we’re finally going to do this yeah you know rose petals everywhere and the candles and you know the champag strawberries yeah yeah he says look i’m going to slip into an out she goes in
The bathroom while she prepars no it was it was much more rip the wedding dress off and go was it very messy this this encounter not not terribly with all the media attention that nick and jessica were getting right after the wedding joe jessica’s dager well he saw the dollar signs and he had an idea that would wind up shooting the couple into super stardom in 1994 after michael jackson and lisa marie presley got married they were going to participate in an unscripted reality tv show called newly weds now sometime during pre-production
Of the show michael jackson and lisa marie presley opted out and the show was ultimately shelved well that was until joe simpson repitched the show but this time with the newly weds nick and jessica mtv quickly picked up the show and just a mere months into their marriage jessica and nick were being followed around by cameras newly wets aired in august of 2003 and quickly became a cultural phenomenon the show gave us a glimpse into nick and jessica as they navigated not just being newly married but also living together for the
First time ever jessica was portrayed as the ditsy dumb blonde and nick the lovable clean freak husband this formula would produce some of the most memorable and iconic moments in reality television history is this chicken what i have or is this fish i know it’s tuna but it it says chicken by the sea that stupid what don’t make fun of me right now i’m not in the mood you act like you’ve never had tuna before i’ve had tuna fish like sandwiches and stuff like this babbe you and i have eaten tuna like this before why is it
Called chicken by the sea or in the sea chicken of the sea is the brand oh you know cuz a lot of people eat donuts like lot of people eat chicken it’s like the chicken of the sea okay i understand now i was i read it wrong you try these i don’t eat buffalo buffalo idiot oh my god it’s not no it’s chcken but it’s why they call buffalo wings babyz come on you know i don’t know this cuz barbecue wings started in buffalo or something like that you know find it weird that buffalo don’t have wings never s about it within a matter
Of months jessica and nick became household names the show land to them brand deals commercials performances christmas specials magazine covers and y’all the list just keeps going on and on newly weds was also used as a launching pad to promote jessica’s third studio album titled in the skin where she had more creative control than ever before even helping to write 10 out of the 14 songs on the album this really is a dream come true for both of us right j totally it’s been such a crazy year for us wouldn’t you agree nick i certainly
Would jessica to think that last year wo wo jess i think you were reading my lines there oh no i wasn’t i was reading those card thingies well yeah but my lines are also on those card thingies i’m i’m in the blue and you’re in the black see oh gosh this is too hard now the world had thought jessica was a dumb blonde so she leaned into it and was cashing in by season 2 of newlyweds it was pretty clear jessica had soared in popularity up to this point nick and jessica were getting opportunities together but in
2004 jessica’s career rocketed off to success es nick lee could only dream of she was out touring getting her own brand deals and was even offered a major acting role on the big screen in september of 2004 it was announced that jessica scored the daisy duke role alongside johnny knoxville and willie nelson in the cult classic movie dukes of hazard now jessica’s daisy duke body would become a hot topic in the media and as jessica said would create a gold standard for her body that would be used for almost two decades as a before or
Comparison picture which y’all this is just beyond messed up like the fact that she’s being compared against this for all of time like that would just mess with a person for the role jessica ended up doing the south beach diet and she hit the gym nonstop she said she needed to impress her label so she was hardly eating and also taking diet pills i very specifically remember an episode of newlyweds where she finally could eat some mac and cheese after filming for the movie and it was like she hadn’t eaten in years season 3 of newlyweds
Began airing in january of 2005 and the cracks in nick and jessica’s marriage became glaringly obvious the first few years of marriage is tough for any normal couple but the pressure of your marriage being televised and used to make millions adds a whole new element to the mix now reality tv at this point hadn’t really existed and nick and jessica were embarking on a journey that hadn’t ever really been done before nowadays we have shows like 90day fiance and love is blind and mil manner that may be competition style game shows but
They also end in relationships and crazy drama it’s nothing new now but back in the early 2000s this was revolutionary and paved the way for most of these shows to exist and y’all fans picked up that there was trouble in paradise right away and unfortunately so did the tablets there were tons of gossip magazine covers predicting that jessica and nick were headed for divorce they tried their hardest to combat this ring rumors by going on various talk shows and saying their marriage was better than ever stories out there i i can’t
Imagine being in the eye of this particular storm but here they are the questions every day he’s jealous of her success she doesn’t wear a wedding ring he’s partying she’s partying she’s got a crush he’s away endless questions every single day about your marriage yes there are yes there are isn’t it fun so let’s just start let’s go one by one getting divorced absolutely not getting separated absolutely not trouble in the marriage no no where does this where does it get started because you didn’t wear your wedding ring let me let me check i have
It on today way out here we both say we got to make sure che we don’t start anything that’s right you’re going to have it cemented to your finger because there was a time the moment that you didn’t why not um well you know i’m i’m kind of finicky about gold jewelry and matching it with silver so it was a fashion decision it was a fashion decision i i took this off and just i got to get you a gold wedding ring now to is no no now it’s i i don’t look at it as that it’s just always going to stay on my finger it’s never coming off but
Again a lot of the people have been writing this have been writing based on all these separations jessica’s doing the dukes of hazard you’ve had your own projects here you can’t be together and that is a breeding ground for trouble in a lot of marriages not just celebrity on well the thing that you know people have to remember about us is that we’ve been you know our relationship has been that way from the beginning you know when i was on tour with 90 dees and and she was on tour on her own tour we’ve always had
A bit of distance in our relationship and and that’s part of supporting each other and what we both love to do and and it’s really you know as long as we have these opportunities to do things that we’ve always dreamed of it’s important i think as a couple that we support each other and and i i’m no one’s happier than i am that that she’s doing this movie and she’s in louisiana and no one’s happier than she is that i have these opportunities to do television and and make another record and just have to support each other and
Sometimes that means uh you know there’s a bit of distance and this longdistance type of relationship but the reality was that all of the rumors were true their marriage wasn’t in a great place and hadn’t been for a really long time they did try to play happy married couple for a few months while finishing out their obligations in august of 2005 the dukes of hazard hit theaters and jessica did her pr tour the third and final season of newlyweds wrapped up around this time as well then shortly after november the
Newlyweds that millions had watched on their tv screens and had fallen in love with announced they were ending it all and divorcing a newly ws producer said that filming season 3 was really difficult she said you could just feel the tension the producer said nick was frugal blue collar and jessica had expensive taste and spent money the newly weds producer said by the end of it all they really only had music in common when last we left you guys jessica you were having a little problems with uh spending money you had
Some i have some issues there are they still still issues oh yeah oh yeah yeah uh i i know because we have a clip from the new season and it’s and the saga continues folks take a look these are amazing sheets what’s amazing b how much were they huh how much how much $1,400 jessica simpson what don’t be mad nick that’s all you can say is jesse simpson that’s it that’s it there’s there’s no word to even describe that situ i egyptian cotton yeah it should have stayed in egp we $1500 for par it was i i slip fine on
The whatever they were cut polyester whatever our sheets were i don’t know but our sheets were itching us really bad so i had to get new ones and and i went to this little trendy store mhm there is not just one reason for the marriage ending there are unfortunately many jessica said she felt like when her career started taking off and she received more opportunities that nick held some resentment towards her her goal was never to outshine him but she also wanted to move forward in her career she wasn’t going to just stall
For her husband jessica also said that they were young and their marriage played out on reality tv they were great when the cameras were on but when the cameras turned off they hardly even spoke she just didn’t want to pretend anymore to her fans that they were this great couple nick said he didn’t know as much about her as he thought prior to getting married since they hadn’t lived together before that nick has also since stated that jessica’s dad joe was somewhat of a problem in their marriage in jessica’s recent memoir she did also
Admit to having an emotional affair with jackass’s johnny knoxville her co-star on dukes of hazard johnny was also married at the time so their affair never turned physical per jessica but she did say they wrote love letters back and forth and when filming ended she missed being around him her physical self would be lying next to nick at night while he was sleeping but her heart was with johnny drafting endless love letters to him on her email there were also rumors of nick cheating and in october of 2005 nick was accused of
Kissing a 19-year-old college student named danielle nick has fully denied this saying the kiss never happened jessica said that since the start of the marriage nick kept putting himself in situations where he could so easily be accused of cheating jessica is the one who ultimately asked for the divorce however the media made it seem like nick was completely bl blindsighted and was fully on board to work on their marriage but according to jessica’s memoir one of the last straws was nick not showing up to their coup’s therapy session nick
However was truly heartbroken and tried to get jessica back but there was just too much damage now remember how jessica refused to sign a prenup according to reports her father joe is the one who told her to refuse as at the time nick made way more money but that ultimately bit jessica in the because by the end of the marriage she made way more money than nick apparently jessica had to pay nick $12 million in the divorce the biggest money mistakes h i don’t know for some reason i thought of my first marriage that’s actually a common answer
Believe it or not after the divorce was finalized both nick and jessica would release albums nick’s album titled what’s left of me released on may of 2006 and the song what’s left of me is nick’s most successful single while creating the music video to accompany his hit nick asked trl vj vanessa mano to play the love interest as well and their chemistry was undeniable shortly after the music video they began dating and according to vanessa by date 2 or three nick leche confessed his love for her jessica said when she found out nick
Moved on so quickly she was saddened beyond belief but she focused on her career starring in another movie alongside dane cook called employee of the mth and in august of 2006 jessica released her album titled a public affair at the time the public seemingly took nick’s side in the divorce and jessica had a lot of negative publicity surrounding her and that appeared to impact the album as well as the record just didn’t sell well jessica decided to switch gears and work on a country album she is from texas after all and after
Covering these boots are made for walkin for dukes of hazard she felt inspired unfortunately the country cross over didn’t work as her album do you know became her worst performing album ever pictures that outfit this woman jessica simpson people can’t stop talking about it saying she looks fat it’s horrific you know especially now i think women put so much pressure on themselves and they attack someone who’s a nice be gorgeous just the way she is and call her fat it just makes me makes though a whole bunch of other celebs were
Disgusted too like heidi clum kim kardashian ian even her ex-husband nickol defended simpson telling the entertainment show extra i can’t believe it’s this big of a story and people are making such a huge deal about it jessica’s brother-in-law musician pete went i think it’s crap the way girls are tak torn apart and i think it’s crap the way people feel like they have to look like the cover of a magazine finally jessica has broken her silence at a virginia concert the singer and actress thanked fans for their support saying i
Feel like in our world today we f focus on so many things that are completely pointless no matter what you go through in life somebody else might have it harder so just appreciate i want you to take a look at a bit of what fox played during their nfl pregame show on sunday and frankly i think they should be ashamed of themselves for this take a look man i still can’t believe tony dated jessica simpson even after she blew up bigger than floel adams hey tony is jessica around we could use a defensive tacle yeah yeah very funny uh
Fox has now apologized for this but jessica is still ticked off she fired back on twitter i thought it was great what she wrote i will never understand why people attack for a laugh own your beauty and don’t listen to the judgment you know there’s so many ways that jessica could have responded to this i think she handled it with great class and actually gave some good advice along the way kim are you with me oh absolutely this was in such poor taste and it it wasn’t even funny as another thing it wasn’t relevant the last time
People were even talking talking about jessica simpson’s weight was when she wore those mom jeans she wasn’t fat then she’s not fat now she’s not even dating tony romo anymore so this just didn’t even make any sense i mean to compare her to a 350 lb linan it just it really didn’t make sense it wasn’t funny and i don’t think a lot of people found it funny and if anything i think it will give her more sympathizers so i think she’s doing exactly the right thing here here’s the thing and this is exactly what’s been happening today a lot of
People out there are saying you know what she is a celebrity and she is fair game even jokes about her weight are fair game marvette do you think jessica has any right to be mad about this certainly she has a right to be mad but as a pioneer of a person who opened up her life to a reality television show her weight sadly and unfortunately is fair game you know for fox and burger king two corporate giants to drag themselves in the middle of of something that that really is uh insensitive to people who are their consumers i think
They’re forgetting about their consumers and focusing on jessica simpson the bigger issue is yes it is fair game but it was out of line and i think their consumers are going to speak loudly in january of 2009 jessica simpson would make national headlines after being photographed while performing at a concert in florida the major news story was that jessica was wearing mom jeans and was now quote fat yes the world did call jessica simpson fat over these photos it’s no secret that the the early 2000s body standards were absolutely
Atrocious and completely unrealistic so many women fell victim to these standards whether it was misha barton or britney spears in 2007 but worst of all were all the young impressionable girls at the grocery store checkout line seeing magazine cover after magazine cover calling jessica simpson fat and ugly while simultaneously using photos of jessica from her time on dukes of hazard a period in which she was starving herself and taking diet pills and they ed these photos to imply that jessica had quote let herself go last
Year i went through a lot with everybody saying that i gained all this weight i i did have nights where i wasn’t comfortable sleeping and moments i didn’t want to walk through the airport or have pop razzi yelling things at me and this is the photo that they i think started the whole thing right this photo right here they decided uh they just went crazy over that photo for some reason for some reason yep everybody was just harping on me gaining some extra pounds and then i felt insecure cuz i felt like i was making other people you
Know if they weren’t a size four or a size six feel big you know i i didn’t like where i was being put in the you know in the public world why do you think they’re so hard on you why why do you do you feel i mean cuz i feel like they’re hard on you why they always are um i think because i i think they always want to try and take me down but i’m kind of invincible i kind of just really just get back up and and fight for myself and my place in this world after being terrorized by the media jessica would completely step away from music
Aside from her 2010 christmas album it has been over a decade since jessica has released a studio album despite taking a break from the entertainment industry in 2010 jessica would be plastered all over the headlines once again this time it was due to john mayor spilling the beans on their intimate relations jessica and john dated on and off after jessica’s divorce it was never a very serious or public relationship however in an interview with playboy john said that jessica is like a certain substance basically saying that she is addicting
Like napal sexual napal obviously jessica was very hurt that jon would violate her privacy in such a way in john’s case i think that he was trying to make a joke but it wasn’t a joke i don’t accept it um i find it very disappointing um those are intimate details that you don’t want the world to know he gave away my game i’m like the good girl and then the bad girl sometimes i’m like that’s like my game maybe in his mind he was thinking he was giving me a compliment but he wasn’t with jessica leaving the music industry
She put all of her focus into her merchandising company that she had actually started back in 2005 the jessica simpson collection of fashion in line which also included shoes fragrances luggage and so much more was in 650 department stores in 2010 alone jessica’s line earned $750 million which makes the jessica simpson collection the top selling celebrity clothing empire ever while jessica was on the path to becoming a billion dooll merchandising mogul she would meet the love of her life eric johnson a former nfl player just 6
Months after dating eric would propose to jessica but the wedding date would have to be pushed back as the couple announced that jessica was pregnant on halloween day 2011 this was supposed to be one of the happiest moments in jessica’s life but instead jessica’s pregnant body would be relentlessly shamed again joy from the view just outright said that jessica was fat jessica was also called an absolute porker and her body would be plastered all over magazines for the public to pick apart was chicken and tuna those
Were the that kind of thing is more fun to criticize than the fact that the girl’s f most women who are pregnant are not supposed to really gain more than 25 pounds and she like she gain a lot more than that what you she gained 40 lb all right is that a lot that’s just 5 lbs over the 25 to 35 but it is dumb not same as be is dumb but it is dumb to criticize any woman who is pregnant period but the media wasn’t the only struggle during this time in 2012 when jessica was in the hospital giving birth to her daughter she would find out that her
Family was falling apart joe simpson for whatever reason thought jessica laying in a hospital bed was the perfect time to tell her that he was divorcing her mother according to jessica’s book he also used that time to call jessica a quote busted condom now joe has been heavily criticized in the past for clearly displaying a lack of boundaries when it comes to his daughters like how in a 2004 interview with gq he made comments on jessica’s breasts but what joe pulled in the hospital that day was jessica’s final straw she said that she
Harbored a lot of resentment towards joe and she was just finally fed up at the time joe was still acting as jessica’s manager and he had been since the start of her career jessica found out that her father had made some very bad business deals and burn bridges that she was just completely unaware of she felt like joe had really damaged her professional career jessica knew that she needed to fire her father as her man and it took her firing him a total of five times before he finally accepted it fast forward to 2014 jessica and eric
Finally got married after having their second baby and everything seemed perfect in jessica’s life she would even reconcile with her dad after finding out he had prostate cancer in 2016 in 2019 she had her third baby and was unsurprisingly bodyshamed throughout that entire pregnancy as well in 2020 jessica released her memoir titled open book it is an incredibly vulnerable autobiography she opened up about her struggle with alcoholism and abuse that she experienced as a child in may of 2017 jessica appeared on ellen and have
You written a song yet or you just starting i have about um i probably have about 38 so maybe 36 her 39 fans wondered if she’d been drinking she had i can’t even watch the interview like i you know it’s not i had started a spiral and i couldn’t catch up with myself and and that was with the well that was with alcohol jessica say she was drinking constantly on halloween of 2017 she started at 7 in the morning i was just dazed and confused and i just wanted to go to sleep i didn’t take them trigg or-treating i didn’t show up for
My family you know i took the picture and i made the world think that i showed up it was the wakeup called jessica says she needed the next day she quit drinking and started working with a therapist jessica even briefly returned to music after over a decade releasing six new songs alongside her book the book did kick up a little bit of nicke drama along the way did you ever wind up reading the jessica simpson book uh you’ll be shocked to hear that i have not nor will i ever i mean i understand why people want to ask but
It’s just it’s it’s so not a part of my my life anymore that it’s not even on my it’s not even on my radar she’s she’s doing her thing and i’m doing mine and that’s the way she fast forward to present day jessica says she finally feels reconnected in her music and she knows exactly what she wants to do so it looks like we are getting a fullon jessica simpson comeback plus she even teased a possible 2024 tour jessica simpson’s career was shockingly pretty traumatizing from her early days missing out on the biggest cultural boom of the
9s to debuting far later than her peers britney and christina after jessica finally was able to carve a name out for herself she faced a terrible and highly publicized divorce that cost her a fortune only to be fat shamed years later while she was pregnant jessica simpson truly made lemonade out of lemons and built the largest celebrity clothing brand of all time and she was able to stick it to her father and fire him so moral of the story even if something seems monumental and like everything is doomed it isn’t jessica
Simpson went through one of the most highly publicized relationships of all time and had her innermost secrets exposed in the most popular magazines in the entire world and she still went on to be a bigger success completely eclipsing her past here’s hoping that that single is a number one
