Jessica Simpson claims her one-time chairty work in Africa for Operation Smile, in which she was sick most of the time and spent just 2 out of 10 planned days visiting children, gave her the perspective she needed to dump her husband, Nick Lachey. She told Jane magazine that her brief visit with children with facial deformities made her want to change her life:
As for Jessica, she’s opening up to Jane magazine about ditching Nick, revealing she made the decision during a solo trip to Kenya in October 2005 with Operation Smile, a charity that helps children with facial deformities (the goodwill tour tellingly coincided with the duo’s third — and last — wedding anniversary).
The plump-lipped, coif-challenged starlet says seeing the sick kids made her realize she wanted something different out of life, which apparently meant less Lachey and more underperforming albums (“A Public Affair”), movies (“Employee of the Month”) and embarrassing tabloid headlines (“Dumped!”).
If that was true, why didn’t Jessica do any more high-profile charity work after that one visit to Africa? She could have gone back or worked with charities in the states. You know that if she did more charity work we would have heard about it. She did show up at Congress one day with her hairdresser, Ken Paves, but if she wanted to change her life so badly she should have stuck with the great guy she had and done something meaningful with her time.
Meanwhile Jessica is getting blasted for her increasingly poor taste in clothing. US Weekly notes that her style is erratic and frumpy lately and that she needs to get a new stylist or some taste stat.
One can hardly blame her for not looking polished all the time. Nick is happy in a new relationship with MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo while Jessica is still single and lonely and telling everyone about it. His album is also selling much better than her latest breathy pop offering. “What’s Left of Me” has sold twice as many copies as “A Public Affair.”
Update: Thanks to Starfruit gossip for Jessica’s entire wacky explanation of how she realized she would leave Nick:
“I went there on our three-year wedding anniversary,” Simpson says. “He stayed home. On that day, everything became so clear. I was in hospitals with all these sick kids, and I was looking at the beauty of this whole different world. I just knew I needed to find something more in my life – on my own. I prayed, then looked up at the sky, and I’d never seen this before – it was a double rainbow. It was the most gorgeous thing ever. From that moment on, I’ve listened to Judy Garland’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow every single day… At some point we realized that everything is not what we expected it to be, as hurtful as that may be.”
Here is Jessica in what could be a new photoshoot, I have no idea, found on SweetKisses.net.
