Jessica Simpson in Vanity Fair!

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May 052009
 

She looks beautiful!

Jessica on the most lucrative part of her career: “The Jessica Simpson Collection is a $400 million business. My mom and I are creative directors. We have hundreds of people working, but nothing gets by us. It’s adorable and it’s affordable. What’s amazing right now, during this recession, is that, somehow, the business keeps growing.”

Jessica on her many on-stage flubs and screw-ups making headlines: “When it comes to media criticism, that’s just something I have had to train myself – literally train myself – to ignore. Because I’m the one up there onstage, and I can feel the energy of the crowd. And I know when I did good. And I know when I did great. And there wasn’t one time on this tour when I felt like I butchered it. I mean, the way people make it sound, I should have never been singing in the first place.”

Jessica on whether Newlyweds caused the demise of her marriage to Nick Lachey: “In all honesty, I believe it did not affect our marriage, Because we enjoyed watching those episodes, and that will always be a time I cherish. It made me understand what marriage is, what love is, what commitment is.”

Jessica on her current relationship with Nick: “I have not spoken to him in years.”

Jessica on her weight being documented by tabloids: “It comes with what I do and I know that every day the media’s going to challenge me, is going to want to bring me down. But I feel like I’m at such a place that I own myself, and it’s authentic. I own that authentic part of myself, and none of those words are harsh enough to make me believe them. I can’t imagine saying some of the things people have said about me about anybody else.”

Jessica on papa Joe Simpson: “If I’m going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers. I can talk to my dad like he’s my manager, and put ‘Dad’ on the back burner. We’ve been doing it since I was 13. So, at this point, we’re in a good rhythm. A lot of people find it strange, but it’s the only way I know. And I don’t care to know another way, because it suits me. And we’ve done a pretty dang good job.”

Jessica on the current poltical landscape in America: “I think it’s definitely time for change. And I am very supportive of our president, and I believe that he’s going to do remarkable things.”

Jessica on being called a jinx on boyfriend Tony Romo’s football career: “Can’t help it. But we don’t let it affect our relationship. If we did, we wouldn’t be together, because it happened at the very beginning. Dating the Cowboys quarterback comes with hype, the fans, the bloggers, but I’ve never dated a guy that was more simple. I’m always there for him after a game, and he knows he has me to come home to.”

Jessica on keeping the faith: “I’m spiritual. I live off the faith that has been instilled in me, that has never left. I’ve never let a stumbling block actually make me fall. We all go through trials, but not one thing has ever made me question God. I have a great relationship with God. I can talk to him, get mad at him, frustrated with him. But, ultimately, my faith is what defines me.”

Jessica on her career crossroad: “There will always be another opportunity, another door to walk through.”

(source)

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Jessica Simpson’s Spiritual Side

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Apr 142009
 

When John Mayer dated Jessica Simpson, he evidently liked how she looked more than how she talked. “John used to tell Jess all the time, ‘I’m really attracted to your spiritual side,’ ” a friend tells us. “He’d tell her that every time she opened her mouth to speak. It was a nice way of basically saying, ‘Just sit there and be pretty, and don’t ruin it with talk.’ The sad thing is she started to tell people, ‘I’m working on being more spiritual,’ and then just sit there quietly.” Reps for both declined to comment.

(source)

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Jessica Simpson Offered Lifetime Membership to Hollywood Weight Loss Spa

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Feb 202009
 

It’s no secret that Jessica Simpson ’s weight has gone up and down considerably over the years, but now the starlet has no excuse for any more fluctuations. The songstress was offered a lifetime membership (complete with personal consultations with doctors and trainers) to L.A.’s swanky star-studded FBE Holistic Health & Fitness, valued at a cool $21,600 per year.

The center’s in-house doctor, Ken Best, already designed a program for Jessica which involves limiting “inflammatory” foods such as bread, gluten, cheese and alcohol and a strict ratio of protein to carbs that he says will enable her to shed around 10 lbs. in the first 10 days. She was also offered an unlimited run of detoxing equipment like the Infrared Sauna and Air Therapy Machine and was advised by Best to take a leaf out of Madonna’s buff-bod book and get on the Whole Body Vibration Machine (we hear Madge has the pricey little device in her private home.)

However, Jessica declined the offer, and according to insiders, Miss Simpson’s body change is just an sign that she’s content and in love.

“Jessica has been spending a lot of time in Texas so her eating habits have changed,” said our source. “And with Tony on hiatus, they’ve been eating out more and just enjoying life together.”

Simpson also hit headlines for a supposed “weight gain” in early 2007 when she was dating John Mayer and critics also pounced when she started to gain a little while married to Nick Lachey while filming “Newlyweds” back in 2004.

“When she has a guy, Jessica just seems to accept herself and stops obsessing over her body,” added the insider.

(source)

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Jessica Simpson & Tony Romo Still On

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Feb 112009
 

JESSICA Simpson (above) and Tony Romo are still on, despite recent tabloid reports that the Dallas Cowboys quarterback may have strayed. On Saturday, the couple spent a cozy evening together at the Great Dane Pub in Madison, Wis., following Simpson’s gig opening for Rascal Flatts. Security guards prevented onlookers from snapping photos, but a witness tells Page Six the two looked “very much together.” Simpson didn’t seem too concerned about her weight – our spy also reports she was drinking “lots of beer.”

(source)

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Jessica Simpson Wears Daisy Dukes Again

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Feb 092009
 

Who still wears short shorts? Jessica Simpson.

Despite scrutiny over her weight, the singer wore daisy dukes — which she famously flaunted in 2005 while promoting The Dukes of Hazard — at The Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday.

Simpson seemed in better spirits than a show Thursday night in Grand Rapids, Mich.

She wiped away tears, forgot lyrics and dedicated a song to her sister Ashlee for “when I feel like walking off the stage.”

“Jessica had an off night,” her rep told Usmagazine.com. “She’s a perfectionist and wanted to start some songs over. She always wants to give the best performance for her fans.”

(source)

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Jessica Simpson’s Weight Drama Raises Questions Over Exercise Video

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Feb 022009
 

JESSICA Simpson’s recent weight gain has reignited a half-decade-old battle she’s had with a video producer.

Last week, photos of the pop singer appearing heavier than usual at a chili cook-off in Florida prompted The Post to write that she looked “as if she could be an offensive lineman for her quarterback boyfriend.”

Five years ago, Simpson agreed to appear in an exercise video made by an outfit called Speedfit, owned by Alex Astilean. But Simpson never signed off on the tape because of its laughably bad production values, prompting Astilean to sue Simpson and her manager/father, Joe Simpson, for breach of contract.

Simpson’s lawyers told Astilean she would approve the video if Astilean fixed it, but he never made good on his promise to do that.

Then the battle fizzled out. But last week Astilean, hoping to embarrass the now-zaftig Simpson, dumped the old video – showing her looking trim, toned and wearing her wedding ring from Nick Lachey – on YouTube. “At least now she will get to feel how it is to be fat,” he tells Page Six.

On Friday, a lawyer for Simpson warned Astilean that Simpson would sue for defamation if he continued the public smear campaign he’s waged against her the last few years, including the bizarre claim that Simpson’s termination of the video deal caused the deaths of countless “fat people.”

Others have been more supportive of the plumper Simpson. Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, husband of Simpson’s younger sister, Ashlee Simpson, told “Extra,” “I think that the media puts too harsh of a spotlight on women in general, and I think it’s a bummer. Real beauty is on the inside, man.”

Famous-for-her-curves Kim Kardashian chimed in on People.com, “Call me crazy, but when I saw the picture, I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, Jessica looks hot!’ ”

Simpson herself seems to be taking it in stride. “I feel . . . we focus on so many things that are completely pointless,” she said during a recent show in Charlottesville, Va.

(source)

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Kim Kardashian: “I Am Probably Twice Jessica Simpson’s Size!”

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Feb 012009
 

Kim Kardashian is tired of the criticism over Jessica Simpson’s new controversial curves.

“I was doing Super Bowl interviews for my Leather & Laces party I’m hosting down here in Tampa, Florida, and EVERYONE seems to be asking me about Jessica Simpson’s alleged weight gain,” she blogged.

Kardashian continued: “I think it’s absolutely ridiculous!!! She is not fat at all and I am actually offended that people are giving her such a hard time over this!”

The reality star says she’s a fan of the unflattering look Simpson sported at a weekend chili cook-off.

“LEAVE HER ALONE!!! First of all, her outfit was FABULOUS!” she wrote. “I loved that Fendi leopard belt with those high-waisted jeans. She is so drop dead gorgeous, and the fact that the media is sending this message out to young girls is mind blowing!”

Kardashian — who has recently been working out to shrink her famous booty — says she’s “probably twice Jessica’s size, so what do you guys think of me then???”

(source)

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Size two? Hmm … Sizing up clothing sizes of Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian, and more

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Jan 292009
 

Oh, what’s in a number? When that number is a celebrity dress size – a lot.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has come out swinging against those in the media who have taken note of big sis Jessica Simpson’s fuller figure.

“How can we expect teenage girls to love and respect themselves in an environment where we criticize a size two figure?” Simpson-Wentz wrote on her MySpace Celebrity blog on Wednesday.

But she seems to be a little … off when it comes to gauging her sister’s current clothing size. A size two?!

Simpson is one of the many curvaceous stars who claim to be able to squeeze into the teeny size.

Kim Kardashian came under fire in September after telling OK! magazine that she’s a two – meaning she could swap clothes with svelte “Regis & Kelly” host Kelly Ripa and tiny Christina Aguilera.

And, of course actress Jennifer Love Hewitt famously used the petite size as a shield against critics of her bikini body declaring, “a size 2 is not fat!”
We think Love Hewitt (and the others mind, you) looks just fine – but they can’t all be a size 2.

“Clearly there’s a psychological piece to clothing size,” says Lynn Grefe, CEO of the National Eating Disorder Association. “Sadly, people believe that you are your size, that the size is a reflection of how good you are or how successful you are.”

Size is definitely a mental thing, agrees FIT professor and fashion designer George Simonton, but there’s no set manual with dimensions for “real” sizes – unless you consult the military.

“There are statistics with the U.S. government,” he says. “For strict measurements you have to go to the Army and Navy for [proper] bust, hip and waist measurements.”

But for non-military duds, sizes are open to interpretation.

“Each designer – believe it or not – fits a little different,” he says. “That’s why there’s always confusion with women.”

High-end designers tend to skew more toward “vanity sizes,” Simonton says, which run larger than, say, their T.J. Maxx counterparts.

Translation: A size two designer dress is more like a size four or six in a department store.

“A lot of women don’t really want to admit what their true sizes are,” he explains. “The only ones that do true sizes are J.C. Penney and Sears. They have certain measurements that their customers demand.”

Those who don’t get the size they want tend to “fib” about it, he says.

But understating one’s size can have negative repercussions for fans, says Grefe.

“For women and celebrities especially to be playing this game … it’s painful when I know people are dying to be these size zeros and twos,” she says.
Grefe adds: “I get disappointed that these women are doing [this]. Do they understand the implications? I don’t think that they do.”

(source)

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Jessica Simpson’s Former Trainer Defends Her Fatness

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Jan 272009
 

Jessica Simpson’s former trainer, The 5-Factor Diet author Harley Pasternak, is defending the singer’s new fuller figure.

“She has curves where a woman needs to have curves. We all go a little bit up and a little bit down. But she’s healthy,” Pasternak tells Extra.

At Sunday’s Kiss Country Chili Cookout in Pembroke Pines, Fla., the 28-year-old singer — dressed in high-waisted jeans and a double belt — shocked fans with her new curves.

But Pasternak says “she’s still sexy. She’s still a beautiful woman. And I have no problem with the way she looks.”

Adds the trainer, “I think if more people looked the way she looks now, the country would be a lot healthier.”

(source)

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