Jessica Simpson made a liar out of me! After she gave birth to her son Ace several years back, I said that I believed Jessica was done with having babies. Having two kids in quick succession did a number on her body and it took her years to really get back to a place where she seemed happy and comfortable with herself. Then she got pregnant again last year and she gave birth in March of this year – another girl, this one named Birdie Mae Johnson. Once again, Jessica had a horrendous pregnancy – this was actually her most difficult pregnancy, I think – and she dealt with a lot of weight gain and bronchitis and just like her previous pregnancies, it felt like she was pregnant for about 15 months. So, Birdie Mae is about six months old. And Jessica wants us to know that she’s lost ALL of the baby weight. She’s dropped 100 pounds in six months.
6 months. 100 pounds down (Yes, I tipped the scales at 240 😜)
My first trip away from #BIRDIEMAE and emotional for many reasons, but so proud to feel like myself again. Even when it felt impossible, I chose to work harder. 💚
Unlike her first two pregnancies, I don’t think Jessica is still under contract with Weight Watchers. This time around, Jessica worked with trainer Harley Pasternak, who praised Jess’s kindness and work ethic. I’m very happy to see Jess looking like herself again. It does feel like six months is a pretty short time to drop that kind of weight though! Real question: do you think it was ALL diet and exercise? Perhaps. I also wonder if it was easier for Jessica to drop the weight because she is presumably not drinking (that much) while she’s breastfeeding.
Photos courtesy of Instagram.
What an adorable baby! Idk if she got help but I’m not hatin on her for losing 100 pounds in 6 months. I wish I could!
Anyone have good weight loss tips ???
Only thing that has ever worked for me is a food journal (which I know a lot of people loathe), and the idea that food is supposed to make my body run better and feel better, so I try to fuel it with good choices. And those choices do include chocolate!
Yep,chocolate and anything you really like and not classifying foods as good or bad,stop eating when full,which is easier to do when you eat what you enjoy.Its really never easy though,is it??
@Spicecake38. It isn’t easy, totally agree, but it gets easier, especially if you start to feel better. That’s ultimately what worked for me – being more conscious of my choices (which journaling helped with) and realizing that those choices have the awesome benefit of feeling so much better, sleeping better, having more energy, etc. Losing weight was an added bonus. It took me about 6 months to make a real change, to make those choices more instinctive than deliberate. And make yourself a priority! That’s a hard one for so many, but deciding that you’re worth putting the time and energy into.
Good for you Josephine!I totally agree that when you feel good it’s easier to make good choices.That’s what I’m trying to do to lose about 10 pounds and believe me at 43 it’s getting harder to see that number drop on the scale!Also I’ve started forcing myself to wear pants that zip,instead of yoga pants every day,and wow does that help.Wishing you good health!🍎
@ Spicecake38: You too! I totally get what you mean about giving up those yoga pants. Hope you get your goal and feel great doing it!
that baby is SO DARN CUTE. what a little smiley pooker! and the chub on her arm! GAH!
that pic of her and the baby – she looks SO YOUNG.
I wanna eat that chubby
arm! She’s a doll baby and good for Jess! Losing weight ain’t easy if it’s done with just diet and exercise. She looks healthy and happy.
Best thing I ever did that actually worked… I had my macros set up in accordance with my fitness/weight goals. Then I tracked everything I ate and drank.
It made me realize how much serving sizes REALLY are, and how many mindless calories we consume in extras or drinks or small snacks.
Once I realized how my “normal” eating wasn’t nearly as healthy as I’d thought.. the game changed! I have been steadily losing weight and toning up. I feel so much better. I am never hungry. It has been wonderful! I just had to learn how to fuel my body with the right stuff.
@RISA – any advice on how to start counting macros? I want to start but find it a bit daunting…
My best tip is to treat overeating kind of like an anger issue. Before you cave to that piece of cold pizza in the fridge, stop and count to ten, and really ask yourself if you’re hungry or just eating it for the hell of it. If you’re hungry, truly, keep stocked with tasty healthy snacks. But whatever you do, don’t eat that piece of pizza. And after awhile of rejecting the unhealthy mindless eating becomes easier. Just say no!
You just described my nightly struggle 😆
Honestly, the way it worked for me is eat more frequently and smaller portions. If you are craving something, have a bite or two but don’t necessarily go for the whole bar of chocolate. I don’t deny myself anything and if I could, I would eat ice cream every day – but the trick is to indulge yourself sometimes – so I eat ice cream once every week.
Also cook for yourself and plan your meals. I know not many people have the luxury or time but it is really worth it. I work full-time but I still take time every morning and every evening to prepare my lunch and work snacks (snacking is good, it just depends what you are snacking on!!!).
I should say also that I’m in eating disorder recovery (for the last 2 years), so it was really a struggle to relearn how to eat and to love taking care of my body. It’s also why calorie counting/food journals/food eliminations simply don’t work for me cause it can cause me to slip back into my eating disorder. But the thing is going into recovery from an eating disorder you gain so much more weight, and it didn’t necessarily make me feel very comfortable, so I worked with my ED therapist to find ways to be kind to myself and my body -without slipping into bad habits.
No alcohol (except on occasion), smaller portions, late breakfast and stop eating for the day early in the evening (a.k.a. “intermittent fasting”). I find that with this method, I can still eat what I want, I just do it in moderation.
This sounds so stupid, but I’ve been channeling my inner Bethenny Frankel lately and reminding myself “you can have it all, just not all at once.” I’m not pulling the bread out of my bagels or anything, but if that dessert tastes delicious, the second half will taste just as delicious tomorrow.
I also try to keep healthier snacks around my house, like yogurt with nuts or chopped up veggies and hummus. My downfall is eating a late dinner when my husband works late and snacking all evening on terrible things before he gets home. Instead, I’m trying to exercise during that time and have a snack that’s going to fill me up and tide me over instead of a bag of chips or something. And on his really late nights, I just eat earlier by myself.
I used Noom this time. I was a WW fan forever, but I bought into Noom’s promises of faster loss – which turned out to be total BS. It took just as long to lose (like 1 pound a week) but the diet plan was much easier to follow and stick to, the app is good and once the weight came off, it stayed off. Also, you get all the good noom tools for free. I did the subscription version and it was dumb and overpriced. Also, I got a dog and started legit doing 10K steps a day. Woof, that makes a difference.
I lost a ton of weight when I first when whole food vegan 10 years ago. But then your body acclimates to that, and as soon as I started allowing myself a few more treats (eating out, rice, soy milk) my body was like . . . uh, back up you go. And now it’s really hard. IDK, I guess my (sarcastic) advice would be to eat crap and then go super healthy to trick your body.
Yes, Branvoyage, cut out all dairy. It works.
I think a lot of it was fluid and baby. I could see her losing almost 30 pounds right there. Then the test came off with a good diet and exercise.
Seems like a lot of weight in 6 months, even if the early weight loss was from water retention. That amounts to about 0.5 pounds per day for a good stretch of time. I’m skeptical that it’s all due to exercise. She looks happy.
A 100lbs!
She’s so petite how much did she gain during this pregnancy?
How much does she weigh now?!?
Agree she looks great.
100 lbs lost in 6 months I suspect some nips and tucks up in here.
With which I’ve no problem.
She said she got up to 240 pounds with her last pregnancy, so I assume she’s around 140 pounds now. I doubt it’s all exercise and diet because of the speed of the weight loss and because she wasn’t this small pre-pregnancy. She hasn’t been this small in a long time, so I think she got some help somewhere. She looks great though.
I’m sure she lost quite a bit, but 100 lbs in 6 months is a real stretch.
I saw pictures of her in NYC today and I assume the insta pic is photoshopped.
Yes she lost weight but she isn’t looking as thin as in the picture she has posted
Wish she/we could stop talking about her weight. Yup, she looks great, but man, too much of her life seems to revolve around weight gains and losses.
The oversize everything else, though, is fair game. Ugh on that huge bag, huge glasses, huge wig, huge bulky boots/shoes that remind me of hooves.
She always looks fantastic without make-up and all the extra stuff stuck to her body.
Isn’t she from Texas? They do it up big in The Longhorn state! As far as us discussing her weight, she put it out there for us to discuss with this Instagram post, so I don’t see the issue.
Oh, I agree that she puts it out there. It just feels like her existence revolves around weight now (and of course her cute kids). But when it comes to her as an individual and not a mom, it doesn’t seem like there is much to talk about anymore but her weight. It feels like a PR ploy and it’s exhausting.
i am ALWAYS struck by how incredible she looks without make up. Whatever she wants to do to dress up is AOK, but wow, she is truly just a spectacular natural beauty.
And I also wish we didn’t have to talk about her weight. I just hope she’s doing well and happy with herself and her babies. Who, incidentally, are also gorgeous. I mean, the envy I feel for those genes…
Shoes that look like hooves? Hahahaha
Shoes that look like hooves? Hahahahaha
I think it depends on how much was “water weight” – I gained about 60 lbs with my first (I think, I stopped looking at the scale at that point lol) and by the time I returned to work at 12 weeks post partum (yay USA), I was up 7 lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight. I didn’t do anything to try to lose the weight at that point either. The baby was almost 10 lbs, and I gained a LOT of water weight and was just so swollen. So it really did come off pretty quickly (but my body was a different shape.)
With my second, I didn’t gain as much weight, and it took a lot longer to come off (and my body was even more different.)
All that to say – good for her, it seems like she worked hard and she seems happy.
I’m a fluid retainer,big time!I didn’t gain all that much weight with my pregnancy and my daughter was a big baby,but I retained so much fluid ,and I know I left the hospital larger than when I went in.I had to wear my husbands sweats going home because I got hugely swollen after having her (four days in hospital with saline drip the whole time)I couldn’t believe how big I was,and then I started to lose that fluid,and the weight came off quickly.So I think she could have easily lost the weight in this time frame.Adorable baby!
omg, LOL, I forgot about the post partum swelling! I remember being so excited after having my first son, and while I knew I wouldn’t go home in pre-pregnancy clothes, I was still a little optimistic and brought regular yoga pants. Yeah I had to wear my pregnancy yoga pants and they were super tight. After my second, I couldn’t get my Uggs on (because my feet were so swollen they couldn’t make it into the bottom.) I was so mad bc I had had such high hopes of not being swollen. (and I lost the fluid obviously, but I was still so mad the day or two after my first. WHY ARE MY ANKLES EVEN BIGGER.)
Yeah I could not even wear home the maternity clothes I wore into hospital 😂
I retain so much water and fluid on a daily basis I am now scared of what my life will be like when pregnant and after LOL
It was probably quite a bit of water weight. Poor Jessica was so puffy and wasn’t she quite ill? . I gained so much water weight with my one son. And I was also quite ill. Pretty sure I had influenza and a miserable cough. After I had him, I peed out like 30 pounds in a bit over a week. It was crazy. But regardless, Jessica is breathtakingly gorgeous.
Birdie has so much charisma for a baby
With both of my babies I bounced back within three months, because of breastfeeding. I was an over producer and it took everything out of me. With my second pregnancy I ended up donating over 1000 ounces of extra milk.
what a kind thing for you to do. I bet you fed a LOT of babies! 🙂
Thank you! I donated to three different babies.
I was a super milk producer as well. I wish that I could have donated, but I gave birth to my only child in 1995 and they weren’t doing milk donations because of the AIDS crisis being in full-swing.
The baby just sparkles! Adorable
100 in 6 months isn’t breastfeeding. You kind of plateau at your pre-pregnancy weight (I did and many I know did too). Even if she lost 15-25 right away (Birdie was a big baby), the other 75-85lbs in 5.5 months while keeping supply is crazy. Especially since this is not her first and even breastfeeding it’s harder to drop after every kid, and it wasn’t this easy the last times.
I’m sorry I had friends with lapbands who lost less in 6 months, so I’m not buying breastfeeding took off 75-85lbs (not including baby and fluids) in 6 months alone when it didn’t happen in previous pregnancies. I was an over producer too, I lost it all in 3 weeks but then scale wouldn’t budge lmao.
She looks great, but it wasn’t diet and nursing alone.
I was a big pregnancy gainer like Jess and pretty easily dropped 10 pounds/month for several months afterwards by breastfeeding – and I didn’t have anyone cooking for me or a trainer to help me work out or keep me motivated. I could totally see someone who is breastfeeding + exercising dropping a ton of weight. It’s not out of the ream of possibility IMO. Especially because she hasn’t hit her Dukes of Hazard weight. I agree with the plateauing business, but my guess is 140 is plateauing for Jess.
She didn’t gain 100lbs this pregnancy. She was heavier prepreg than she is in these pictures. That’s why I mention the plateau. Because losing 40lbs more than your pregnancy gain in 6 months without dropping supply (therefore dropping cals burnt by nursing) is unrealistic and I bet she had a little more help than chef and trainer.
Did she say she lost it breastfeeding? I missed that. I thought it said she lost it by working with a trainer. Do we even know if she *is* breastfeeding?
I agree with you that she may have had a little help. Did want to chime in though and share my experience. I had my second child 6 months ago and gained 21 lbs during my pregnancy. That came off while I was in the hospital just from breastfeeding and I lost a further 23 lbs within the first 4 months just from breastfeeding and chasing after my toddler. I thought it would be harder this time around because I plateaued as you said with my first child, but 23 lbs under pre-pregnancy weight so far with no affect to my supply (EBF). So who knows, maybe she had a little help or maybe a personal trainer and chef helped her a ton haha.
I agree. And she isn’t just her pre-pregnancy weight, she’s down lower than she’s been in many years. She was already struggling with her weight before her pregnancy, so I’m guessing she had some kind of gastric surgery and she’s been working her butt off in the gym and eating well. 100 pounds in six months is just too much for a 39 year old woman exercising and counting calories. Especially a woman who was already struggling with her weight.
But she looks fantastic and there’s nothing wrong with getting a little help on your path to getting healthy.
if i had to guess…she lost 30 or 40 lbs just from giving birth but that leaves 60 or 70 lbs to lose on her own. that is still a good bit of weight to shed and she must have worked really hard to do it. good for her – she looks wonderful. my dad lost 70 lbs in 6 months under supervision from a nutritionist and has kept it off for several years. it is possible and safe if you do it right.
i hope i can remember this when i need to lose 100 lbs after giving birth…which i will.
My second was over 11 pounds and sucked the life out of me breastfeeding. When I had him, I deflated as soon as I pushed him out. Then the weight melted off bc I ate really healthy and was so busy with two children. I also began exercising at about 8-10 weeks post. Unlike my first pregnancy I did not get below my pre pregnancy weight but I did lose all the weight quickly. If she 1) changed her eating habits 2) had emotional support(husband) as well as physical support (trainer), I believe she could get a lot of the weight off naturally. I think in the past she was unhealthy with sugar and foods and alcohol and Id be willing to bet that this time she cut all that out.
Yeah I bet some of it was fluid retention that went away relatively quickly.
Like Kaiser said too,I think she’s not drinking and that combined with healthy eating and exercise,it’s a hard thing to do,but I can see the weight coming off pretty easily.I have a relative who drank around 10 cans of soda per day (not diet) ; gave that up,and began walking on a treadmill,she lost about 100 pounds in under a year.
I lost 30 pounds and I’m gaining them back. I was really stressed for six months and ate a lot but didn’t work out.
I don’t know how to start over again
I lost it all very quickly right after having my son, then gained all of it back and more because I had severe PPD (and we also remodeled our kitchen at the same time, which meant endless pizza). I ended up joining WW after a year of feeling crappy because I realized I really needed people to guide me through. Luckily, my meeting was filled with wonderful people and a great leader. I lost 30+ in 9 mos.
I’m in the same boat. I worked really hard to lose 30 pounds a few years ago, then got hit with a bunch of life stuff at fitness fell to the bottom of my list (and junk food jumped to the top). I’m just doing baby steps. I know what worked for me before, I’m trying to add good habits and remove bad habits one at a time. It’ll come in time. I don’t have it in my to go all in and think about nothing else like I did last time around.
Is anyone not freaking out that she had 100 lbs. she had to lose? That’s a hell of a lot of weight to lose, and a seriously huge weight gain for a pregnancy.
That wasn’t all pregnancy weight. She was heavier pre-pregnancy than in these pictures. She was heavier when a WW sponsor. This is baby, pregnancy weight, and probably 40 extra pounds on top of that at least.
ikr?? I’m 5’9″ and weighed 200 lbs the day I gave birth to TWINS. What the heck was she eating?
Breastfeeding didn’t make me lose weight. It wasn’t until I stopped that I lost weight. I didn’t breastfeed my second, and the weight dropped much more quickly. Every body is different. Breastfeeding is not a weight loss panacea.
Most people I know who breastfeed got close to their pre- preg weight… obviously there’s exceptions. But noone could really go beyond that loss. All plateaued there. For me the same, but the scale said I was the same weight but I looked heavier and as hard as I tried I couldn’t lose more no matter what I did. It would come off and pop back on.
So maybe she nursed then stopped so she could extreme diet and exercise. Or maybe she had help.
I see her chest has not shrunk.
She must have implants now.
Jessica has always had large breasts. That’s kind of what she was known for. So no, she does not have breast implants. If anything she will probably get a breast reduction and lift in her later years.
Her boobs have shrunk. They were massive when she was bigger, at least double their current size. My chest is the first place I gain weight and the last place I lose it. She’s probably the same. She’s always had very large boobs relative to the rest of her body.
The photo at this link is her in October 2018, five months before she gave birth. They’d only get bigger as she neared her due date.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/jessica-simpson-jokes-about-baby-bump-as-she-nears-end-of-pregnancy/
I also looked like Jessica did while pregnant with this last baby and I lost 43lbs in the first four days after I had my baby so I can see how it’s possible. Still that’s a huge amount of non-baby weight to lose. Wow
I use a calorie counting app that tells you how you’re doing on nutritional value percentages and fat and carbs for the day or per item which is useful. It made it more worth it to me to input everything. You can add recipes. It puts things you’ve added in the past at the top of the list when you search. Cronometer is the name.
I also bought a Withings scale that connects with my phone and I weigh myself at the same time every day (so I don’t forget or get bad about doing it—you don’t have to look every day).
Varying calorie amounts to keep metabolism from tanking either through straight CICO, intermittent fasting or—my favorite—cheat days seems to help not hit plateaus so far. I’ve lost 20lbs so far.
The only thing that is helping me with the baby weight is exercise, cardio and free weights bc my metabolism went to non existent 😩😫
I seem to have an opposite problem as most. I have very small pregnancies, I look six months at full term. Only a tiny belly and giant boobs. Then I have the baby, and look almost normal from the week after giving birth. Six weeks after baby, my stomach is flat and I look like I didn’t have a baby. But then BAM. About 3 months after baby is born the stress, sleep deprivation, post postpartum anxiety….I have gained 20-30 pounds. It’s unreal. Happened after both my pregnancies. Then that weight is just stubborn and I’m too exhausted to go to the gym and drop the extra weight. It’s a vicious cycle. My kids are now toddlers and I’m sleeping at night for the past year so I’m finally good at going to the gym and feeling like ME again. I am also on a good medication to control the severe postpartum anxiety from my OBGYN and I feel NORMAL mentally! Ahh!!! Best thing I ever did was finally ask for help.
Everyone’s story is different and everyone’s struggles are different. If you feel yourself having anxiety or depression after baby please, please talk to your OBGYN, or any other doctor, and get yourself help. It was life changing for me. I wish I did it sooner. I thought sunlight, yoga and pretending I felt okay was how to deal.
I believe it. I gained a very small amount of weight when I was pregnant due to hypermesis (20 lbs in total, 8lbs being my baby), and I left the hospital days later weight less than what I weighed before I got pregnant! Then with breastfeeding, weight just dropped off. Even when I plateaued, once I stopped breastfeeding, I actually lost a couple more lbs! (I guess the body stores fat to help with milk production while breastfeeding, so losing a few more lbs after is common.) Considering she tends to gain a significant amount with babies and now isn’t limited exercise wise like some women are during pregnancy, it makes sense she’d drop such a huge amount of weight with a healthy diet too. Honestly, I’m happy for her. A mama who feels good about herself is a healthy one!
The picture of her and her daughter gives me, as they say, all the feels. It reminds me of the best moments of being a parent in one pic. Sigh. I could almost cry bittersweet tears of joy looking at that. 🤗😭
Love the Jessica. Her kids are adorable and she looks so happy. Wish her well.
One thing that I saw more and more people trying with great results and for which I confess as well is intermittent fasting. I eat for 6 hours in a day (usually 2pm-8pm) and then nothing but water or black coffee. The body doesn’t need anything more actually and it gets some well deserved breathing” break from digesting permanently. There are so many studies recently about this and they got me because they’re not really selling any miracle, no pills, no diets, just managing our eating time frames better. I tried this since April and I’m super duper happy with this. I’ve also seen other people trying this combined with some selection in their food: for example, at the same meal, you don’t put dairy and grains together, or meat and dairy, etc. I cannot do this because I’m a lover of pizza but eating whatever I want in those 6hours (and it’s not like continuously eating, just 2 full usual meals) has worked great for me. And my one advice to anyone (this has been my lesson in the last 8 years struggling) is to always chose your food based on ingredients: if you don’t know what some ingredient is on that list, don’t buy it, don’t put it in your body. Pasta at home with tomatoes and garlic and basil and Parmesan is 1000% more healthy (even if it’s a ton of Parmesan) than those frozen meals with unidentifiable ingredients that we only hear on chemistry classes. And no soda, goes without saying. But honestly, this is so simple to Manage and it makes it so easy to lose weight.
@Elena I wanted to chime in and agree that Intermittent Fasting (IF) is working for me too when nothing else really has.
I’ve done Jenny Craig a few times and lost weight on it but always gained it back when I stopped and I started worrying about how bad all that processed food was for me and I hate all the plastic packaging too!
i wanted something that I could do myself that was healthy and nutritious but still allows me to enjoy life and not feel deprived so I started IF and now I eat between 1-8 pm everyday. I find it’s oretty easy to push through until then if I keep myself busy and then when I do eat I feel fuller much faster.
If I want a treat I have it in moderation but I’m trying to focus on no added sugar and no alcohol at least. I might have a couple of wines a week if we go out somewhere and so far so good!!
I recommend listening to Gin Stephens podcast delay don’t deny for anyone that’s interested in this way of eating 🙂
I am close to Simpson’s age and also have birth to my 3rd baby 6 months ago. I lost 40 pounds in 3 weeks. I swell up in every pregnancy. Unfortunately, I have gained 20 of it back due to post partum depression, poor diet, and sleep deprivation. Props to Jessica for losing the weight. I wish I had the time and energy to devote to working on myself right now but I do not.
I find it hard to believe she’s lost 100 pounds in 6 months. If she really has, it’s not from diet and exercise alone. She probably got some kind of prescription help as well. Jmo
There were some paparazzi pictures taken of her last nite I think and she looks nothing like she does in that black dress in front of her house. She still looks really good, but not as thin as she is in the top picture.
I was an over producing breast feeder and it didn’t help my weight loss at all. It was really hard to bounce back after both my babies.
The main things that finally helped were
1) increase exercise
2) smaller meal portions
3) no unnecessary snacking (specially sugar)
4) getting enough sleep
#1 and 4 were nearly impossible until my babies started sleeping better. You can’t bounce back with sleep deprivation.
I hit 210 with my first pregnancy (good lord!) and the day after I gave birth I was 175 lbs. I gained literally 20 lbs of water weight in the last two months. It’s very very possible. With my second I was 190 and within 3 months with diet (weight watchers for the win!!) and a lot of walking, I was down to 140. Good for her! People were dogging her soo hard during her pregnancy and she seemed so uncomfortable.