There are a bunch of Jessica Simpson stories in the tabloids this week, just as I predicted in the wake of Nick Lachey and Vanessa Maniwhatever’s engagement. Immediately following the announcement, PopEater’s gossip guy reported that Jess was “deeply saddened” by the news. This week’s In Touch Weekly has a story summed up with: “After Nick Lachey’s romantic proposal to girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo, Jessica Simpson is desperate to wed before her ex-husband.” People Magazine scored an interview with Pete Wentz where he talked up Jess’s relationship with her Yalie, Eric Johnson. And now the low man on the totem pole, OK! Magazine, has a behind-the-scenes piece regarding Jess’s state of mind:
Jessica learned her ex-husband was engaged the same time everyone else did – when the announcement hit the Internet. Soon, a friend tells OK!, Jessica began “calling everyone, first her sister, Ashlee, and then everyone else in her circle…she was Googling Nick for a bit.”
And then she had a friend set up a Google Alert updating her about news of the engagement.
“She spent hours obsessing about it, but then she let it go,” the friend explains. “She doesn’t want her boyfriend Eric Johnson to think for a second that she still has feelings for Nick.”
But does she? “It’s not that she has anything specific against Vanessa…it’s the fact that when Nick began dating her, everyone assured Jess that Vanessa was ‘the rebound’ and that no one marries ‘the rebound’. and now he’s marrying her and Jessica’s just in shock.”
Friends say that Jessica tries to be happy for him because she is serious about Eric. But it’s not always easy.
[From OK! Magazine, print edition]
Poor Jess. Surprisingly enough, I buy this story. I think Jessica has mixed feelings about Nick’s engagement, and that her pride is hurt more than anything. Wouldn’t everyone like to think that we’re so awesome, none of our exes can survive without us? And Jess is just hurt because Nick is all “Vanessa’s vadge is better than or equal to Jess’s.” Also: I love that Jessica needed a friend to set up a Google Alert. Poor Jess.
Sad Sad Sad..
I honestly feel bad for her.. She can’t win.
if its true, at least its honest. Id do the same if my ex was getting married and I wasnt.
She strikes me as the type who needs to think everyone is in love with her, so it wouldn’t surprise me. But she wanted out of that marriage, so it’s time to move on girl.
Nick definitely had her at her best.
Never believe anything you read and hear and only half of what you see.
Wow. I’d really forgotten how pretty she used to be.
He’s moved on (once) & she has moved on (several times)….I can see if she wasn’t with her new “love”, but she is so get over it.
Sorry but the google alerts tidbit puts this story in the “made up” category for me. That’s just laughable.
I like Jessica. I think she’s happy with her life, I don’t see why tabloids feel the need to try to take that away from her but they do.
I feel bad for her, too. I hope none of this stuff is true. It’s embarrassing to even read it.
loved nick & jessica together. so i totally ‘believe’ this is a struggle for her.
dude, they are divorced! they are both allowed to move on with their lives! give me a break! ugh! she can be saddened but ego is ego.
I definitely buy that she obsessed over it for a bit. When my ex (my first serious boyfriend & the only other person I’ve loved…other than my husband) had a baby earlier this year I was doing everything in my power to find out about it.
I’m really happy with my husband (wouldn’t have married him if I weren’t!) of 3 years but the fact that this other guy had a child with someone else when, at one point, he told me that I was the only person he wanted to spend his life with & have kids with, kind of stung. I don’t want to have kids with him and I certainly don’t want to be with him any more, it’s been 6 years since we broke up, but I didn’t want him having something that I wanted. It’s petty but it happens all the time.
It probably stunned her, stung her and then she got over it.
You know i want to believe that she is all live and let live. But i have this crazy friend who honestly believed that everything her ex was doing was directly correlated to her, i.e. he dropped out of school because he was devastated by their break up, he joined the Army because the life the built together was no longer going to happen. Never mind she dumped him for someone else, for SEVEN YEARS she went on like this. Finally she ended the relationship with the other guy, she reached out to her ex and you know what he told her………. That he was sorry she had spent her time obsessing over him and their relationship that ended EIGHT YEARS AGO. He had moved on long ago and she needed to as well, I think she was shocked but definitely something she needed to hear to move on.
My point is that while most of us like to believe that our exes will never find someone as awesome to replace there are many who REALLY DO BELIEVE that their exes pine and perish for them. As for Jess, i think she might fall into the later category, maybe this is the reality check she needed. She is a grown woman not a pretty pretty princess, time to act like it.
yes, she’s distressed over the news. i don’t think your first love and marriage are easily forgotten…WOW…wasn’t she beautiful when they were together? she tried then…since, she seems unfocused and lost…hence the unhealthy weight gain…
I seriously doubt that she cares, Vanessa and Nick have been together a long time…and I think that Jessica moved on long ago!
I have to say that I feel bad for Jessica. My ex recently got married, and even though we have been broken up for over 10 years now, it kills me to know that he married someone else, when I always thought it would have been me.
This girl desperately needs a tigh circle of girlfriends because leaks like this make her look like an idiot. She needs to tell her “friends/sources” to STFU!
Yes, it’s true she doesn’t look like she used to. And I am not believing this story mainly because it’s from OK!. But also because I just don’t see her being like that. Nick and Vanessa have been together for a while so it’s obvious this was going to happen so I am sure she was prepared for it. And since when has OK! had actual real “friend” sources.
I loathed Jessica Simpson and her ilk when they first came on the scene, but as the years have gone by, I can’t help but feel sorry for her.
I mean, she needed help setting up a google alert? Poor, pathetic Jessica.
I don’t believe this. She dumped him and fell madly in love with several men. She probably can barely remember loving Nick. Nick got out good. Jessica was stunning when they were married, but she’s just okay now. His fiance is hot.
This magazine could have guessed at this story. No one wants their ex to move on before them. No One
@Po: “No one wants their ex to move on before them. No One”
I thanked God when my ex moved on. He is now remarried going on two years and all I’ve ever had since is a relationship that lasted all of 4 months. But I am still grateful that he moved on. Do I think Jessica is the same as me? Not necessarily. But I wanted to address your blanket statement. 🙂
Dude, I totally hated my ex’s guts but when he moved some girl he met at Waffle House into the house he and I bought together, I thought I would never stop throwing up.
So, yeah, I think it’s a kind of a normal reaction. Only if she really did pull herself together, though… which she didn’t if she’s really hell-bent on beating him to the altar. THAT is just silly! (I didn’t go pick up a guy at another Waffle House just to show my ex that I could do it too, you know?)
What I find interesting is why this utterly talentless, desperate TWIT gets so much press !! Her smile was always for the press and cameras when they were photographed, not for her husband. 😛
OMG. I love the photo selection of “nottie” choices in clothing through the years. Remember the “Glamour Don’ts” (giving up my age here, shout out to seniors!) Well, Jessica Can Not Dress Herself. And she runs some kind of fashion empire, doesn’t she? It’s irony.
Cletus…not to diminish the pain you felt with your ex, but am laughing at the bit about the Waffle House…
Who knows…she could have LITERALLY moved on and this story is bullshit…or she can be pretending to have moved on (when really not) and deep down she’s NOT over him, she’s hurting and does NOT want to admit it. I think if that was true…based on these actions alone, that speaks a lot on it’s own. I think the several men she supposedly “moved on” with, wasn’t necessarily moving on, she probably kept re-bounding one after another and she was lonely and kept looking for love the wrong way…as oppose to being single for a really long time, giving herself time to heal and letting the connection with someone happen naturally as oppose to going out desperately looking. I don’t think she was hardly ever happy…I think with that one football guy (I forgot his name)…she seemed happy, (I might be wrong) but, that went to shit too…so…she went on and on and on. I give props to Nick for sticking to one woman after Jessica…I thought he would have been more of the whore…because sleeping around with different people doesn’t always make you better or label you as “moved on.” I also think that IF Nick and Vanessa get pg….Jessica is going to react the same way. That’s why she should have stayed with him.
Nick seemed like he was kindof mean to her…that said, did he dress her? ‘Cause she LOOKED great when she was with him.
This girl has some serious mental issues. First she publicly dumps Nick after treating him horribly after she starred in Dukes of Hazzard, then she hooks up with Adam Levine and makes an ass out of herself and now this? I think there are pills out there to help this type of condition.
Probably brought on an eating frenzy. 40 pounds ago Jessica was hot.
Kaiser – I propose a new name for her:
Vanessa Marmadillo
Part of me thinks this is some what true since Jessica often gives off the vibe of desperation. Changing her hair color for John Mayer, then changing her image with Tony Romo. I think she has no sense of self worth. She can’t seem to stand on her own and revolves her life around men. So to me, I would think this would bother her. Not because she’s still in love with Nick but for the sheer fact that he found love again and is getting married again. And he did it all before her.
My first love dumped me for the woman he is with now and they have stayed together for over 10 years. They are engaged and I’m not sure if they are married or not. But frankly I could care less either way. I live my own life and am not concerned with what my ex’s do after we break up. But that’s just me, I’m not a celebrity.
If this is true, I think her reaction to, and feelings about, Nick’s engagement are very normal and rational. Her dad meddled so badly in her marriage to Nick, I bet she sometimes wonders if they could possibly be married if she had listened less to her father and more to her husband. She and Nick had such a romantic beginning and I think they really did love each other, but Jess’s head got too big and I am sure her daddy was telling her that she could really do a lot better than Nick. I am sure a part of her will always love what they shared. Their marriage was the height of reality show career and music career, and she still had precious Daisy her life.
Being upset when an ex moves on and having feelings for your new beau are not mutually exclusive. You would think the people writing for the tabs have never lived a life of their own with the ridiculous questions they pose. Who wouldn’t be upset if your ex-husband (the 1st man you ever loved/boned/etc., the man you thought you would spend the rest of your life with) was able to move on and find someone they could marry so quickly?
I dumped a guy a few months ago and I was the one who was over it. Yet, when I found out he had a new (very cute) girlfriend who he was happy with I couldn’t help but have mixed feelings of regret, envy, bruised ego, obsession, and rejection. It’s human nature.
BUT JESSICA – If you can hear me but at all – DETACH! Turn off the google alerts, “hide” his posts on facebook, and stop seeking out the info. I promise it only hurts you worse and prolongs the moving-on-process in the long run.
“Also: I love that Jessica needed a friend to set up a Google Alert. Poor Jess.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
that is exactly what i thought when i read that! Poor Jess. lol
She has beauty/love in her life and she is immensely wealthier than him, she shouldn’t be jealous.
I would ask what google alert is, but I suppose I should wiki it. I’ll throw myself to the wolves, though, and let you know if I still can’t figure it our.
Trust me on this, not all ex’s do that. I doubt that she was obsessing over her ex. He has been with the girl for a long time so it was expected. My husband and I got married on our son’s birthday, the SAME day his ex girlfriend, with home he was going to marry, was getting married with her new boyfriend. Hey, it was my boy’s day, not either mine or hers so we decided to go ahead with the wedding. The only reason why we knew was that her sister is still friends with my husband. I don’t think she cared for him and neither did her care for her wedding news. Trust me, WE all get over our EX’s!!!! I wish the media would stop reporting on myths.
Divorce and time have not been kind to her.
I think this is true, Remember how Jessica would always bring up Nick in magazine interviews she gave?
I think deep down she is starting to realize what a GREAT guy she really had.
And I think she regrets divorcing Nick
of course it’s been 5 years so she needs to grow up and move on.