Jessica Simpson on Being Newlyweds with Ex Nick Lachey, Weight Gain and Owning Who She Is

i've been waiting for this to start so i could personally thank you for well that's a little bit too much come on actually it's not because i think you helped a lot of people in various creative businesses and arts realize and help us pave the way to just not be one thing it made it possible for people to take a chance on us because they looked at your brand and thought oh i want a piece of that and if that person can maybe bring that and it was because of your billion dollar incredible financial success also i think what you did um which also was a very tone setting thing for women in business was make it authentic uh make it true to yourself make it something that doesn't seem like such a banana's departure like what are you doing um for people to take a step into your world and literally walk in your shoes and so i thank you on behalf of all of the people who have been brand builders since you launched yours because you made it viable for us all to do so because yours was such a success so you really are the original like watch people like at the airport or walking down the street i mean we love street style i was dating a guy at the time and i would look at everybody and how they dressed their very best to be at his concert and like what was their outfit and like i really that was like kind of my mold like i looked at everybody what they dressed as their best and i was like i you know that that type of stuff helps the inspiration behind everything i'm like you know that was that was like at the beginning and like hmm i wonder what concert that was well well i updated some of a couple musicians though some under the radar that people don't know about but we like to come secrets i'm so curious well that is definitely not being told i will say it's always fun your phone number i'll call you and tell you for sure and it's also just so fun when you can get away with it i don't know if you've had this experience also there's something really embarrassing about when you go on like one date with a guy and all of a sudden you're inextricably linked and everybody thinks that you've had this whole thing and you're just like i don't even know them i was i thought about it but now i'm like i'm linked to you i always felt like um i mean yes i had my list and i checked my list off as if i was a dude or something but i i did i felt like any time it started to get a little bit serious like i was the person to run from because every guy would be listening to their publicist who would be like stay away stay away you'll never be a respected actor you'll never be a respected musician if you're dating her but that was you know back then so at least that was the excuses i heard kind of random flow that i just gave you i felt like we're like two friends talking sorry listen we've been through some bizarro unorthodox you know life romance uh writing i i do find you know i hope it's not okay i hope it's okay to very inspirational for me as i was on my uh way to writing open book and my memoir like um listening to your voice was awesome it was soothing it was entertaining um there's so much about your memoir that i really just admired and um yours was one of the first that like i studied before i you know got into it but i mean i really just opened all of my journals from my past and it kind of all married itself into um just a very interesting take on my inner child and in the release of the memoir and now having to like be i get to be partners with amazon which is awesome and have all these projects in you know the work so it's it's fun to release your narrative your side this story your truth and your honesty and just to show that you do have flaws we're all trying to work it out in this life you know we're all just trying to do it the best we can and to manifest the great the greatness in ourselves i have so much respect because in some ways i feel like mine was easier because i was a kid and i didn't have a family at stake and then when i got divorced it was such a tragedy for me personally that i i really flailed as a human being failure in general like i feel like as uh creative people and artists like were such perfectionists um and me even growing up like in the church and as a preacher's daughter um you know i had like a standard of what marriage was supposed to be and um oh wow it really wasn't that within the first week so it was like whoa okay so it's not like like that fairy's hell but i got married really young i remember and i mean you know did the religious services also you know give a blueprint for how you would live with inviting the world in and really again let's just talk about you again as a paving the way leader you did a television show before there was such a thing there was not even almost reality tv it was a new genre like the first is it the osborne's in the real world and then nick and i yeah yeah so like for our marriage i mean it was definitely like stressful we did have fun i mean up until like the last like the end of the last season did it get to be just overwhelming because we were at a place where our communication was no longer communication anymore like it was very one-sided on each side you know and for me like i just because i have you know a a pedestal to use my gifts on it makes me no different than anybody else like i was even judged um in the church uh growing up like singing um on stage like i had to wear like blazers vests turtlenecks because if i just wore um a regular shirt like all the rest of the girls i mean when i would sing i would feel the holy spirit and get chill bumps and apparently people would lust and so i had to cover it all up so i've i've literally been judged for my body like since i was a kid i had that judge in the church and then after the church it was like no be sexier but then it was like oh but you always have to look that way if you do it once you have to remain that body forever and that's that is what you shouldn't be you know like i mean turning in my weight to the label it's not okay you know but i you know i was reading the story of your scale and that you know when eric threw your scale away when you were weighing yourself with i think it was birdie right well yeah i mean i got yeah i i was much heavier than my husband who played in the nfl so that pregnancy really did mean almost 5'4 260 was real heavy for me i love that you took that scale and you were like throw it out i don't want to look at it anymore like when i would go into the doctor's office i would just stand on it backwards i'm like just don't tell me i mean even though i had to work really hard to get the weight off like i did it and i committed and i think if you're disciplined it can come off i mean you could still eat a dang cookie you know what i mean like i hate diets i know i do too

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Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 29 2021