Here are some photos of Jessica Simpson, out and about in NYC yesterday. Yeah. Something nice: her body looks awesome and she seems very comfortable physically. Something bad: this outfit sucks!! The different pieces are okay-ish, but not all together. As for her body, Jessica appeared on the Today Show yesterday to talk about the Jessica Simpson Collection, her marriage and yes, the years of public criticism of her body. Jessica says the criticism “empowered me to rise above and stand up for all the women out there that do have trouble losing the weight….It wasn’t really my priority to please the public and make them feel like I’m supposed to be looking like I did when I was 25.” Here’s the video:
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Eh, it’s fine. I thought Jessica was unfairly bullied about her weight, but I also thought she invited criticism of her eating habits and her weight because she wouldn’t shut up about “slutty brownies” and all of that. It was a vicious cycle. But she seems a lot better now. Is anyone else weirdly focused on her mouth in this interview? Are those lip injections or what?
Meanwhile, Jessica Instagrammed this photo yesterday, writing: “I was on a plane to NYC today and I missed out on this!!! I’m in LOVE with the 2 of them. #boyswillbeboys.” Judgy moms, tell me: does this photo make you uncomfortable? It makes me uncomfortable, even though it’s in a pool and I’m sure little Ace is fine. Still, Eric tossed him REALLY high.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Jessica’s Instagram.
i don’t understand her outfit.
” Judgy moms, tell me” – no way out of this one, is there? my husband is much more “daring” with our toddler than i am, but he’s never done something like this. and yes, this makes me uncomfortable. there, i guess i am super “judgy.”
My husband used to try and throw our son up (not this high) and it scared the crap out of me. Thankfully, my son hated it as well so that solved that 🙂 At least he’s doing it in a pool though.
Oh, and that outfit is just horrid. I don’t understand why she insists on wearing platforms with everything.
I don’t have kids, but I do know that Eric was a sh*tty tight end, which tells me he can’t catch well to save his life.
oooooh buuuurn!
LOL
I legit fistpumped when the Saints cut him.
Omg that is way too high! Especially with a wet baby that can be more difficult to catch. Im trying to figure out who I hate more, irresponsible dad for throwing him so high, dumbass who thought it would be great to take a picture instead of telling him to stop, or the mom who posts online like it’s fine. I
Bleh. Is this a thing? I hope not. Great legs though.
Her legs would look much better in some more sensible shoes, I’m looking at her muscles and thinking that this must be uncomfortable.
Rare moment of disagreeing with you OKitten. Don’t like her legs At all
It seems that after having two kids she lost her charm and sexappeal. She is another example that pregnancy takes away beauty. It’s sad.
This is exactly why I will never get pregnant; I want to keep my charm and sexappeal 4eva.
Nikki, I’m assuming you wrote that after a sleep deprived night with a newborn and a toddler clinging to your leg, or maybe after an argument with your twelve year old or you waited up half the night last night for your teenager to get home. Very charming yourself.
I know many, many mothers who are sexy and lovely. Their experiences helped them grow into more beautiful women on the inside, too, which enhances their beauty. So I disagree with you.
yikes.
Not sure if serious…
But yeah, if having two kids has ruined my sex appeal, you should probably tell my husband. He seems unaware that I’m now less charming and attractive.
Have to disagree with you there. My sister gave birth to the CUTEST NEPHEW IN THE WORLD (sorry to all the other aunts out there but it’s a fact – my nephew is just the cutest thing ever!!) over a year ago and she looks awesome! Sleep deprived but awesome.
She’s eats reasonably healthy and works out a lot and she’s happy and I think that all helps contributes to her looking good. Better than me actually.
I disagree too. I think her legs look terrible.
I think her legs look awesome: strong and athletic, like she actually works out her legs. Great calves.
yeah, unlike KK who supposedly works out.
Pretty sure the reason her legs, especially calves, look like that is bc of the super high platform heels. They’re constantly flexed bc she’s on tip toe.
Whoa! That is insanely high. But the kid looks so happy. As long as daddy catches him…
Daddy is a footballer, he probably just meant to toss him like a foot. Those big strong arms can’t help it 🙂
Not really. He’s done it before and she’s posted the photo. I’m sure he’s done it plenty of times.
Baby tossing always makes me uncomfortable. Brain-rattlingly good.
I wondered about that: if he caught him incorrectly, would it cause a concussion on the wee one? Not good!
It also makes me a little uncomfortable. They both look like they’re having a blast, but my momma bear comes out a little bit. By the way, Jessica’s transformation has been nothing short of amazing. She looks great.
As a mom, I would FREAK if my husband tossed our baby that high. But I also know that men parent completely different than women, their ways are not wrong, and kids need both the protectiveness of mom and the daring behavior of dad.
My husbands uncles used to hang him up by his backpack when he was really little on coat hangers and things like that. Just leave him dangling there. They’d only be a foot away, and sit there laughing like mad, apparently. But some men are just a bit toooo daring for my taste. I was tossed lightly – not anywhere near as high as Ace, and I loved it. But Dad was also a safety freak for most things. More often than not, he’d just balance us on our stomachs when he was exercising – in between doing situps – he’d ‘superman’ us so we were balancing on his feet, looking like we were flying.
You are right men parent differently. That pic gives me a heart attack. When my husband or brother throw around my 2 year old I just avert my eyes or leave. She loves it, but mommy is a nervous nancy.
I’m okay with things like this as long as I don’t see it. Seeing a photo makes me imagine the most horrible things. Hearing about doesn’t bother me.
I hate, hate, hate her shoes. If you MUST have a platform, it should be hidden, and max out at an inch.
As for the baby picture, I admit that my heart skips several beats with my husband does that with our kids, but they’re always fine and I think most Dads don’t toss higher than they’re comfortable catching. It’s a really amazing photo, though.
Thank you re those hideous shoes. I just vented on the same thing before reading the other comments.
Hate Charlotte Olympia then–she’s the designer and has popularized the “floating island” platform.
I second the comment about her shoes, and would add that her hair is just gross. I just don’t get why she still wants to look that like.
Lol and I’m coming down here to say I like them! I like Charlotte Olympia designs.
Those shoes are seriously ugly and stupid. Chav. I do covet the sunglasses and bag, though…
Has she had a lip job? I’m not up on celebrities, hence my intermittent appearances here, but I seem to recall she had rather full lips already?
Bad lip job.
He obviously enjoys doing that,there is also a pic of him throwing his daughter insanely high.
I’d freak if they were on land… But they’re in a pool. So if dad misses, the kid just goes splash. I think it’s fine.
Forget the tartans…why in the HELL is she still wearing platforms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like that outfit. Mismatched tartans and all. Lurve her shoes.
That kind of mismatched clothing would only work if our have the personality for it. They will work to someone like, say, Gwen Stefani. But to Jessica, nah! They look like scrap table linens on her. Sorry, Jess, you look hot though and the baby is so cute.
Someone’s been watching too much Outlander! 😀
no such thing as too much Outlander Sassnach.
Why isn’t she wearing her own cheap clothing isn’t instead of McQ by McQueen? That outfit looked stunning on the model. Simpson is too stumpy.
It’s that horrible, cheap looking belt and those shoes that are killing the look. I love the dress on this model:
http://www.shopbop.com/drape-top-plaid-dress-mcq/vp/v=1/1535902134.htm?extid=SE_froogle_USA&s_kwcid=AL!3510!3!%7Bcreative%7D!%7Bmatchtype%7D!%7Bplacement%7D!%7Bnetwork%7D!!%7Bkeyword%7D¤cyCode=CAD&ef_id=U5ociwAAAIGqpgaI:20140926051629:s
Also looks like she’s been doing some lip injections, especially noticeable when she smiles in this photo:
http://www.celebitchy.com/389114/jessica_simpson_wears_mismatched_tartans_in_nyc_budget_or_cute/ffn_simpson_jessica_spar_092414_51538742/
Thanks for sharing a link to the dress, the link has it at almost $920.00 (Australian dollars). Who the heck is paying that much for something that looks like it was made in a middle-school sewing class. Wow. I could make it for $20 (probably with cheaper material, but still, fug), I wouldn’t pay $2 for this dress.
ETA. I like that the skirt isnt skin tight though, there is way too much strech to fit in the world for my liking 😛 hopefully this style of fit becomes popular again, although I doubt it because it prevents women buying a size too small because it still “fits”.
My uncles used to throw me very high like that in our pool out back. I have a long memory and can remember being three or four and getting tossed like that, i remember being as high as the second story windows (it was an above ground pool).
The uncles also used to toss my sisters and cousins and I around in the ocean as if we were little footballs. I think as long as you are in water and the man is sober he’s probably being more cautious than you would think. Men just love throwing babies!
Lol! So true of good men.
I love the outfit. But I am crazy for plaid. And it is a nice change of pace for Jessica.
But yea. I am not a fan of that style of platform. Really I am tired of seeing platforms, in any style.
Yet, Jessica is obsess with being short. And hates her short legs. So she will never stop wearing this style. Till her feet are all jack up with her toes over lapping.
The only thing that truly bugs me. Is her hair color. She normally keeps more low lights. The ultra light blonde is not a good shade on anyone over the age of 5. It just makes your face look old and harsh. I am ignoring her inflated lips. Again. She has no reason for doing it. All she is going to end up with is tragically misshapen lips. (ie: Lisa Rinna)
But then again… I loved Jessica with the dark auburn/chestnut brown shade hair color. During that time she was hooked up with Mayer. It was so flattering.
I agree with you re her hair. Its way too light and harsh looking. What ever bust up she had with Kevin Paves………..she needs to fix up. He really did her hair beautifully. She’s been a mess ever since.
I agree it’s too light. I think the color ages her. I also thought her hair was looking on the thin side and thought this was the first I’ve seen her without all her extensions but the DM has pics of her extensions showing. I really wonder how all these rich celebrities would look if they didn’t spend thousands of dollars on upkeep. And she has to stop with the lip injections. Her lips were fine before.
Fug
Honest question: can you really say that you’re empowered and standing up for women of all sizes when you still make yourself lose the weight, and quickly? And when you have a very lucrative contract to rep a weight loss company?
I would have a lot more respect for her if she’d said “yeah, I gained weight. Deal with it.” And then just gone about her life, instead of using it as a moneymaking opportunity for weight loss.
I try to take a broad definition of empowerment, but I find nothing about her empowering. She strikes me as insecure and immature. I don’t see how being obsessed with your look can ever be empowering. To me, women could be free to do so much more if we free ourselves from criticizing and trying to improve our every physical attribute and, more like men, assume someone is going to love exactly what we have to offer.
Ironic though that you find empowerment not in her but in being free from criticizing others. In this comments section, Jessica has been criticized for her choice of clothes, her legs, her hair, her lips, her lack of charm, her lack of sex appeal, her lack of personality to pull off certain things, her choice of shoes, her insecurity, her immaturity, her stumpiness….I’m sure I missed something. But yeah, SHE’S the one who is not empowering to women.
Leigh…I find nothing empowering about a marketing tool, and that’s all that Jessica Simpson is….a tool to manipulate women into buying products offered by several different companies (Jones of New York clothes, Vince Camuto shoes , Weight Watchers).
If Jessica doesn’t like the criticism she receives about her body, clothing choices, her weight, her sex appeal (or lack of), and personality; then she should not have signed away the rights to keep those things private to companies who want to use them to make a sale.
It’s hypocritical for Jessica to complain about comments about her clothing choices when she has announced in the past that she knows how to “dress all body types” and is paid to pretend she designs clothes. She cannot cry foul when people notice the body she used to simulate a sex act with a car in order to sell an album looks different. And signing a contract with a weight loss company is not the best way to keep people from critiquing your body.
@Leigh: that’s not exactly answering the question. I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again: Jessica is the one who chose to make her personal life and her body a commodity. The moment she signed that Weight Watcher’s contract she made the public’s interest in her body, diet, and weight her job. If she didn’t want to be defined by her weight then she shouldn’t have taken their money.
And here’s the crux of the issue for me: it’s easy to talk about being empowered and how much she loves her body now that she’s lost a ton of weight. It’s clear she’s worked hard for her body, but I find it disingenuous to give a message about empowerment when anytime she’s gotten criticism about her body she’s followed up her message of empowerment bylosing a bunch of weight.
@ Leigh: I think I get what you’re saying, but my message wasn’t supposed to be some huge tear-down of her. But darn right I am critical, because she is part of the huge marketing push to make women obsess about their looks, and at the same time claiming that she is so above it all. She markets fake hair and crippling shoes to women, and has made a living talking about her weight, gaining it, and losing it.
The question was whether it is “empowering” to do the whole weight loss deal. And I think it is empowering to NOT focus on your looks. In that sense, yes, I think she is both insecure and immature, and the exact opposite of empowerment. I don’t think it is empowering to butcher your body and spend so much time, thought, money and effort looking artificial.
I don’t have a problem with baby tossing in a pool, however there is another pic of him throwing the little girl this high on LAND! That scares the crap out of me!
Jessica always looks budget. Mostly because of her tendency to over accessorize. And if I never see another platform shoe it will be too soon. The platform makes any outfit look cheap. I want to burn all platforms. Hate them!
Those clodhoppers on her feet are not doing her any favours.
Agree. She so desperately wants to be thin…let me give her some advice.
Wearing chunky shoes makes one look heavy, just like boobs that are way out of proportion to one’s body type. She’s got both going for her here–in a negative way.
I was actually relieved to see he is standing in a pool this time. That image of him tossing the daughter on the beach was blood-draining. It doesn’t matter how big and strong the husband is–accidents happen. At least if there is a whoopsie in the pool, the kid makes a soft landing.
Meh, the kids fine. With my first I would have stroked out, but after a couple more I’m fine with it. I just pulled my sons legs out of mt daughters crib this morning, he was stuck on the outside. Kids are rough and tumble. They’re darn lucky to have an interested father who’s around and not wasting his life on video games.
There have been some studies that indicate dads doing things like this with kids help build a child’s confidence and gives them a better sense of adventure. The innate way a father will play with a child a little more…daringly…balances out the more nurturing and safe parenting from a mother (usually- I am not advocating for this, this is no comment on same sex marriages, I am not a child behavior specialist, I am not saying single mothers are not the most awesome and best, etc.). It supposedly gives the kids a better chance of being more independent and confident. So the studies say. So this doesn’t freak me out too bad. Now were he doing this on a cliff with a steep drop, or over a den of lions- then I would worry.
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My dad did all kinds of stuff like this with me and I’m a total wuss. Side note: my old boss had a baby and did the requisite toss in the air but it was too high and his infant son hit his head on the ceiling. Injuring children while playing, also requisite activity for fathers of young children.
I try not to be too judgmental of others’ parenting choices, but I am a freak attack when it comes to my kids getting hurt – I hate preventable injuries. If these were my kids I would be having a fit, and probably ruin the fun for everyone. It is lovely though to see this dad so obviously enjoying the time he spends with his children.
I really like both parts to her outfit but not TOGETHER! What a dipshit. LOL, and I like her…
What is different about her face? I only see it looking straight on. Is it cheek implants? What is it?
BTW – Some women look better after having kids. I never lost my shape and it made my face…different in a good way. Can’t describe it, but some women get better looking with age and pregnancy doesn’t matter. I don’t like the implication that child-bearing ruins a woman’s sex appeal. That’s right up there with blaming child-bearing for chunking out during and after pregnancy. Have some discipline and it won’t happen. And if a woman does lose her beauty, chances are it happened due simply to age – not having kids. That is just a coincidence.
It seems a bit extreme..how high can he go? But my daughter never got tired of this, and she’s a gymnast now.
The outfit is fine. It’s the shoes that don’t work with this, and she needs something else with the outfit, a black blazer or something.
I love Jessica Simpson. I wish she would stop it with the lips! She is beautiful without it.
It’s probably (definitely) a bad idea for her to do another reality show but oh how I wish she would!!! I think she is so cute and hilarious. Still dying over “is this chicken what I’m eating or is it fish?” LOL
I heard she is now banned for life in Scotland.
Her hair looks like crap in these pics. Maybe cut down on the processing?
I’d be pissed if my husband threw my son, who was barely toddler-aged that high. I wish she posted that saying that she wished she was there to intervene but I’m sure it was an attempt at being braggy. Her husband is as dumb as a box of hair.
The darts on that shirt hit her in the wrong place. They make her boobs look like pointy bombs ready to drop.