Jessica Simpson Covers Vanity Fair
4 May
Miss ‘Busty’, Jessica Simpson covers the June 2009 issue of Vanity Fair. Inside the mag, she opens up and talks about her empire, body image and media, her dad’s role, boyfriend and more…
On her empire:
“The Jessica Simpson Collection is a $400 million business,” she said. “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.”
She talks of performances made famous on YouTube for forgetting the lyrics to her songs and her weight:
“When it comes to media criticism, that’s just something I have had to train myself—literally train myself—to ignore,” she said. “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.”
She talks about body image and the media:
It comes with what I do,” she said, “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.”
She talks about her dad’s role in her career:
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.”
Boyfriend Tony Romo says of Jessica:
“She has a very small-town side to her,” Romo told me. “We’re very similar in that we both appreciate the hometown feel to a lot of things, and live our life like that.” “She comes to a ton of games,” Romo said. “She’s a supportive girlfriend.”
She speaks of being a football fan:
“I was always a fan,” she told me. “In Texas, it’s a sin not to be. But I’ve never been as passionate as I am now. Before a game, I’m crazed, sending mass e-mails: ‘Please pray for Tony’s protection.’”
