Jessica Simpson’s taken some heavy knocks in the media since photographs of her in those “mom jeans” were released. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jessica revealed that she was actually a size 4 in those jeans! Because of the unfair criticism she’s received about her weight, Jessica and best friends Ken Paves and CaCee Cob are travelling the world and documenting the lengths women go to all in the name of beauty on the VH1 show The Price of Beauty.

On one trip to France, Jessica and friends met Isabelle Caro, a former model who suffers from severe anorexia. When the now-62-pound Isabelle first started modeling, she was told by a designer that she needed to lose 22 pounds, and that began her downward spiral. It got so bad that Isabelle was hospitalized a few years ago after slipping into a coma and almost dying. Because of this Isabelle trying to get a law passed in the French parliament that regulates models’ sizes, and that if you’re not at least a certain weight or size that you shouldn’t be allowed to model.

“It makes me very emotional because just the pressure that women feel to be thin or to be beautiful – the pressure that the media puts on women – is so unfair and so disgusting,” Jessica tells Oprah after watching Isabelle’s insert on the talk show.

Singer and reality star Jessica Simpson has been a tabloid target for years. Be it too skinny, too fat, too chubby or too perky she’s been accused of everything. The 29-year-old is on the cover of Allure magazine, she’s svelte and feeling good about herself. But it’s not just her great shape that has her happy, it’s her peace of mind now that she’s learned to ignore the media and tabloids. During the interview with Allure she sarcastically said,

“When I walk through an airport and people go, ‘You’re not fat!’ I’m like, ‘Thanks. Thanks. That’s great. Good to know I’m not fat today. Thank you!’””

Now that she is finished filming her series The Price Of Beauty, she has a new outlook on beauty and she said she is ‘disgusted’ with the American obsession with weight. For example, one thing she learned is that in Asia people consider themselves more beautiful if they have whiter skin but in the US people strive to get tanned to appear skinnier. After everything she has learned, Jessica has decided to leave the weight-obsessed media and culture behind. She said,

“My job is to be creative. And I’m not weighing in for anybody.”

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After months and months of waiting we’ve finally got a date for Jessica Simpson’s talked up reality show, The Price of Beauty. Mark your calendars for March 15th to see Jessica and VH1 travel to Thailand, France, Brazil, Uganda, Morocco and India to report on the different beauty ideals around the world. Jessica, who has always been scrutinized for her weight, her breasts, her hair, and everything else imaginable but since she’s done this reality show she’s a changed woman. She said,

“It changed me completely because I haven’t always had an inner confidence. The journey really was finding something beautiful inside me, and [knowing that] I own it.”

Simpson explained that she is different now and will no longer allow others to define her own beauty. She feels called to be a positive role model for women all over the world and she wants everyone to know that her life is changed. She said,

“I carry myself differently [now]. And any man I find, they are going to be darn lucky.”

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As Jessica Simpson travels around the globe to film her reality show, The Price of Beauty, it seems that she is learning to handle the criticism and media blows when it comes to her beauty and her body.  Her father Joe Simpson recently told Us Magazine that filming the new show has been good for Jessica because since she is always under scrutiny it is good for her to see how other parts of the world view beauty.  For example, while visiting in Uganada the beauty ambassador there knew about Jessica’s struggles with the media and the two talked about how beauty comes from within, it’s not what is on the outside.  Joe explained,

“In Uganda, we sat in a fattening hut because, in Uganda … fat is beautiful.  So the bigger you are, the more beautiful you are. She was with a girl who had been in a hut preparing for her wedding for two months and 25 days on a 5,000 calorie-a-day diet.”

Wow, that would definitely change your views on beauty.  In addition, Joe was asked if he has given his 29-year-old daughter any advice on how to handle the media when it comes to her weight and he said that he no longer needs to do that anymore because she is ‘wise.’  But Joe did mention that it’s frustrating for Jessica and sister Ashlee Simpson because the world tells them who they are instead of knowing who they are.

“The girls are wonderful kids who have so much to offer, and as a father, the greatest frustration in the world is that people are told who they are instead of knowing who they are,” he said. “So the hardest thing for me as a parent is to say that’s not who my child is; you don’t know the girl because she’s the same girl she’s always been.”

Still no word on when The Price of Beauty will air so be sure to check out VH-1 for more details.

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Jessica Simpson is looking rather foxy on the cover of the September issue of Glamour Magazine.  Regardless of weight gain and weight loss rumors it is evident that overall Jessica is a healthy woman and she’s just like the rest of us when it comes to diet and exercise.  In the magazine she talks about her fluctuating weight and that it has been an issue since she was a child.  She said,

“When I was young, I would look at magazines and feel a lot of pressure,” says the singer, 29. “As a child of 12, I would write things in my journal like, ‘I’m lying here and all I can think about is that my stomach is hanging over my underwear.’ “

She went on to explain that even to this day it bothers her that she has always had this idea of perfection in her head but something she has never been able to attain.  She said that women can spend loads of money on products, diets and surgery but none of this will work until they are happy with who they are inside and out.

In her new reality show, The Price of Beauty, she travels around the globe to reveal what women will do and sacrifice in order to feel beautiful.  She said,

“It will be interesting for women to see how self-obsessed we’ve become.”

Jessica Simpson is a trooper and no matter how often the tabloids attack her in regard to weight or her love live she always comes out on top.

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You can’t slow down a single gal.  Jessica Simpson is not going to allow the media to discuss her love life, her emotions and her body weight without putting up a fight.  Even though it’s just been a couple of weeks since her big break up she has been spotted numerous times in training, and now she has even graced the cover of OK! Magazine while working up a sweat.  One of Jessica’s friends told the tabloid that after she split with Tony Romo she said she wanted to get her old body back and she proceeded to the kitchen to  clean out the refrigerator.

“She went into her kitchen, got a trash bag and started to clear it out.”

Jessica has been spotted numerous times visiting celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak’s West Hollywood fitness center.  Her friend said,

“Working out is helping to give her focus and clear her head. It’s better than sitting around moping or throwing pity parties with ice cream sundaes.”

And all of her hard work is paying off.  Supposedly she has already dropped  10 pounds in just two weeks!  Now that’s obviously extreme and impossible for that matter, but it is evident she’s trying to slim down.  Jessica is not going to allow her body weight to be a negative topic of conversation in the tabloids.

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Most girls head straight to the freezer for a carton of ice cream after a big breakup, but not Jessica Simpson, she’s heading to the gym.  Over the past year as Jessica was sporting a fuller figure many were speculating that it was because she was enjoying herself with her then boyfriend, Tony Romo.  It’s not uncommon for two lovebirds to pack on the pounds as they snuggle on the sofa eating pizza over the weekend instead of out dancing with friends.  But now that Jessica and Tony are officially split a source has revealed that it was Tony’s breakup threats that caused Jessica to eat. The source told US Magazine,

“Tony was always threatening to break up with her, and it would send her into a panic,” says the source. “That’s why she’s gaining so much — it’s emotional eating.”

But that’s all changed now.  As seen in the photo above, Jessica was spotted leaving a training session and the source confirmed that she’s getting in shape as she prepares to shoot her VH1 reality series, The Price of Beauty.  Surely in a month’s time, Jessica’s heart will be mended and she’ll free great after burning off a couple of extra unwanted pounds.

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2009 has been a tough year for Jessica Simpson, she has endured bullying by the tabloids because of some unflattering high-waisted jeans that made her look a bit chubby and Eminem made fun of her figure on his latest video. But with Jessica’s ups and downs she has reportedly decided to take matters into her own hands as she has been visiting some TV networks to pitch a reality show about society’s scrutiny over women’s bodies.  One source said that the program would be called, The Price Of Beauty:

“She and a friend set off on a road trip around the world in search of what people find beautiful and why,” the source continues saying that Jessica will even try, “shocking things that women do to make themselves beautiful. Picture Fear Factor.”

When Us Magazine asked Jessica’s reps about the reality show they responded,

“Jessica is indeed working on a new show, but network details have not been finalized at this time.”

This could be an interesting new show that will hold much more weight (no pun intended) than the Newlyweds reality show she did during her first marriage.

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Grammy award winning rapper, Eminem, is notorious for speaking his mind through his often controversial lyrics and his latest video, We Made You, is no exception.  In the video a very heavyset  Jessica Simpson look-alike wearing Daisy Duke jean shorts stuffs her face with hamburgers and dances around with a Tony Romo look-alike.  Eminem told the Detroit Metro Times that he was at first hesitant to put the scene in the video.  He explained

“Tony Romo is one of my favorite quarterbacks. So I felt kinda conflicted doing the Jessica thing.”

His original plan was to have a slender Jessica Simpson actress in the video:

“When I say, ‘Jessica Simpson, sing the chorus,’ we were gonna have a chick who looked like Jessica Simpson come out and sing.”

When Emineem was filming the video it was at the same time (winter 2009) that all of the tabloids were covering Jessica’s alleged weight gain so he went for the fat version of Jessica instead.

“But then Jessica got fat,” he says. “I mean, not really fat but she certainly got fat for … well, Jessica Simpson got fat for Jessica Simpson!”

All is said and done, and who really knows if Jessica gained weight or lost weight, or something in between.  At least Eminem is able to entertain us and poke fun at the celebrity weight loss/weight gain gossip.

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Jessica Simpson has been getting back into shape with her long time trainer, Mike Alexander.  She hasn’t been necessarily out of shape, but she is obviously a little thicker than before.  As we all well know, she was incredibly scrutinized a couple of months ago while she was on tour and was sporting a much fuller figure.  During that time period her trainer told Fox News that Jessica wasn’t worried about it, even though many tabloids blew it out of proportion saying she was depressed or having romance problems.  Mr. Alexander explained,

“The whole thing wasn’t as traumatic for Jessica as everyone made it out to be,” he said. “She’s a confident and naturally beautiful girl who works hard.”

But now in the days of Twitter and tweets, celebrities are revealing a bit more about their daily habits.  This week Jessica tweeted that she was heading to the gym,

“Every time we have to do squats, and he yells at me, ‘Get lower like you’re in the club!’” she then adds, “I don’t squat in the club unless I am peeing!”

It’s always nice to hear that rock stars and celebrities hurt during those workouts just as much as we do but we really don’t want to hear about their hygiene habits!

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