This week, OK! Magazine’s cover story is “Jessica Simpson: ‘Yes, I’m Having a Baby’”. Please don’t think that Jessica is actually “confirming” anything to the tabloid, though. As I covered yesterday, the cover story is just about Jessica telling friends (who then tell OK! Mag) that she’s pregnant and eating everything. While I think we’ve pretty much established that Jessica is in fact pregnant, most us would definitely like to see her confirm it somehow. In yesterday’s story, I praised what I thought was Jessica’s low-key vibe in regards to talking about her (alleged) pregnancy. I thought she was actually changing for the better, that perhaps our little Farty was growing up. According to Page Six, though, she’s still the same old Farty. Meaning that her dad is still a train wreck and that he controls everything about her:
Jessica Simpson is pregnant, but she wouldn’t confirm anything to anyone until she had a magazine deal — for a fee of up to a half-million dollars.
Sources told Page Six that Simpson, with the help of her father/manager, Joe Simpson, refused to say she is expecting until she had a deal in place.
The the singer/fashion designer and mentor on NBC’s “Fashion Star” had been shopping a deal to the celebrity weeklies to announce the news and sell the eventual baby photos.
We’re told the Simpsons were asking up to $500,000 to close the deal. And Jessica has been hiding an obvious bump in recent photos to keep showbiz’s worst kept secret.
Last night OK! posted the cover story, “Yes, I’m Having A Baby.” Jessica is engaged to former NFL star Eric Johnson, but the wedding date hasn’t been revealed.
“We’re enjoying our commitment to each other,” Simpson said recently. “We want to take our time … We might elope if it gets to that point.”
A rep for Simpson had no comment.
[From Page Six]
Is Jessica worth $500,000 for a baby announcement AND baby photos (in what seems like a package deal)? I think she might be. Don’t yell at me! But Jessica is a tabloid favorite, and even though most of us aren’t actively fan-girling her, we do like her and wish her well, and that means people will be interested in her official pregnancy announcement and the first baby photos. Plus, I think the “Yes, I’m pregnant” AND the “Here are my babies” tabloid covers are selling for a bargain at $500K. I hope People Mag bites.
Photos courtesy of Fame, PCN.
Oh Joe, you big ol’ money-whore.
Ridiculous. Classy RICH motherfuckers donate that money to charity. But this money will go to financing Jessica’s tuna and ferraris and shit. Nice.
Why would anyone pay for something that will be confirmed on it’s own very soon? They shouldn’t pay pappy Joe a dime.
How rude is the bottom article?? “who else is pregnat and who’s just fat??” holy shit.
She could totally get that. I was just ragging on Dina but Joe is in that same category and he doesn’t bother me as much. Why?
There’s the reason for her recent “discretion”. Pffffff…fameho family is just holding out for mo $$$.
I thought they must be holding out for a lot more than that. $500,000 doesn’t seems like a lot to me for her to confirm her pregnancy on a cover. I would think that issue would sell well. I would like to see it.
I would definitely flip through at the super market.
Papa Joe Pimpson, such a klass act.
$500K for Jessica Simpson, who hasn’t done anything in years, to announce she’s knocked up by a former NFL “star” (one of the most generous uses ever of that term), which everyone already knows? Really? God, her dad is delusional.
Ah here we go, the first official whoring out of the grandbaby. Way to go Pop Pop!
Ahh, I put the wrong server in my email address! Didn’t realize until my avatar didn’t show up. Sorry about that, I’m not trying to post under multiple names!
All I got for my pregnancy confirmation was a hug. I should have held out for at least a bagel and some cream cheese.
Get out!
Called it.
I hope this is not true. I would lose a lot of respect for her. She is the head of a billionaire empire. She doesn’t need the money. Even if she wanted to donate the money to charity, I still would find it tacky. I’m sure she can afford to give that money to charity. She is far richer than Brangelina. She prolly spends that much on hair in a year’s time. Maybe she wants to sell the pics and split the money with Eric so he could at least have a source of income.
@lol yeah what the hell that bottom article is just horrible…
Uh.
If true, that’s so tacky.
And stupid, because the longer they hold out, the more obvious it is, and loses the surprise value the tabloids want.
There’s a big misconception perpetuated by her father & her team that Jessica is actually raking in a billion dollars. First of all those numbers are inflated, I doubt the company is making that amount, but whatever the real total is is what the company makes.
Jessica signed away her name and is only making a fraction of what the company is actually making. She’s not even on any Forbes lists so that should tell you she didn’t make that much.
Fame whores. Disgusting.
All the public has to do is wait – soon the baby will make its own announcement via the bump and then the actual appearance.
Perhaps the marriage has been delayed because the supposed groom is having second thoughts on marrying her knowing its a package deal involving pappa!
#Lol
“How rude is the bottom article?? “who else is pregnat and who’s just fat??” holy shit.”
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Okay I laughed out loud… when I saw that article.
Only cause I saw Christina there looking all bloated. I am sure she is thrilled being called “fat”.
Now I want to know why that tag line of being fat or pregnant… can’t be used for all the fat men roaming around LA. Still getting hired with their big guts hanging over their pants.
Seriously how funny would that be… showing off all the chubby men… being ask when they are due. 🙂
I think you’re right, half a mil sounds cheap. She’s a tabloid darling and most people, as you said, do wish her well even if they’re not a fan.
Who would be stupid enough to pay for this news? All we have to do is just wait a few months, and everyone will know for sure without paying a cent.
i thought with him being a minister & all he would frown @ his daughter having a kid out of wedlock?what a bunch of phoneys
Ugh, I don’t know why anyone is surprised. She and her father have capitalized on her limited talent and big hooters by whoring out every aspect of her life. It isn’t like she was all of a sudden going to be low key about something. If she isn’t in the press, she doesn’t exist. She sure as hell doesn’t have the singing/acting chops to sustain herself.
And enough with the “billion dollar empire” — She doesn’t run anything but her mouth, when she’s eating or burping. She licensed her name to a completly separate company that is responsible for creating/marketing the clothes and she/Papa did not cash in nearly to the extent people think they did.
She probably needs the $500K.
I’m with Kate !
I hope she’s quit the boozing.
Amen to Alejandro and Kate. That billion dollar figure was a sales forecast for 2012 floated by the guy that owns her name in a pr puff piece, and it was probably inflated so he’d have an easier time selling a name most people associate with farting and poor personal hygiene to real designers/manufacturers. It was not the profits for the company or what she is worth.
What billionaire would be scrambling for $500,000? $500,000 is .0005 of a billion [if my math is correct! :)] That would be like someone who makes $100,000 negotiating a deal that would make $50. Or someone who makes $50,000 negotiating for $25. It hardly seems worth it.
Based on this news, things might not be as financially rosy as the Simpsons would have us believe and she probably does really need the money.
If I were a mag I wouldn’t pay one red cent. It’s going to be OBVIOUS…already is now. 500K to acknowledge the OBVIOUS? No way. Her father is a PIMP.
TMZ had/has a video of her walking through the airport supporting her back with her arm…
Unfortunately, I have been following J. Simpson for years. Her life pattern(as well as the pictures over the years)seems to say that she is clearly miserable and possibly does not have a stable sense of self. She seems to have been in a downward spiral since her departure from Nick Lachey. Until she exorcises her personal demons, she is doomed to repeat the same behavior.When she does, I will not allow myself to be sucked in again.This for me is a wake up call. This family is about money.It seems like we are being used.I mean, why play coy with her fans and allow her story and her baby to be shopped before it is even born? Privacy? Growing up? Her pattern continues to say no. No wonder Nick has never looked back.This story has helped me see the light.I have allowed myself to be played for too long. I personally am done following her. So long and goodnight.
So Clan Shotgun believes that things become bigger mysteries as the obviousness of the truth rapidly grows, so to speak?
Logicians In The Mi(d)st.
As far as tabloids go, I’d figure that once the potential cover ages from, ‘Hoo-Whee, Tuna’s Spawning A Baby!’ to, ’30 Helen (Keller)s Agree, ‘Don’t Hold Out For Month Six What We Saw At Month Three’, greed, over-estimation of public intrest and a missed recognition of what eyes do all intersect and collide into a shrugging cloud of NASCAR exhaust fumes, Wrangler Jeans and overwhelming bystander apathy.
Overshot your mark, Simps. But I do say congratulations of the upcoming pigskin of the amniotic sea. Don’t bother with photos and inane stories once it gets here, though, because as much as I love babies, I’ll tune you out like we all collectively tuned out both your and your extended family’s careers.
I do love baby footwear and the appendages snuggled therein. Baby moccasins!
How funny that her pregnancy is basically confirmed by leaks of Papaw Joe demanding x $$$ for the confirmation.
No one will pay even remotely close to this. You would have to be an idiot to pay anything when it will be obvious in a few months if/when she has the baby.
“We’re enjoying our commitment to each other” –> translation: “We’re still negotiating the prenup”??
D List. When you follow a Kartrashian’s lead your talent may have left the building.
And that is why Jessica is so messed up and unable to function in any kind of relationship or marriage. Exhibit A–Papa Joe Simpson.
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