A photo of Jessica Simpson sitting in the grass smiling vacantly graces the cover of People Magazine this week. The title reads “Jessica Simpson: How I Found Love Again” and promises such tidbits as “Why Tony Romo is ‘the love of my life,’ How ‘I had to regain self esteem’ after split with John Mayer,” and “The men who inspired the songs on the new album.” Nothing is sacred to Simpson when she has to sell country music CDs, including her fragile relationship that was once broken from the weight of the personal details she spilled to the press.
The teaser article on People.com reveals that Jessica took the brave step of changing her cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses so that her exes couldn’t contact her, and that she naively believes that relationships should be easy:
Happier personally and professionally than she’s been in a long time, Jessica Simpson tells PEOPLE that boyfriend Tony Romo is her “perfect guy.”
“I just told him today, ‘You’re the love of my life,’ ” she confesses in the latest cover story. “I don’t really ever say that to anybody.”
Simpson, 28 (as is Dallas Cowboys quarterback Romo), also co-wrote a song for her man, “You’re My Sunday” and, in a true modern-day sign of devotion, changed her cell phone number and e-mail address to cut off any potential communication from her exes.
“I don’t want anybody that’s been in my life [before] in my life anymore,” she says. “I don’t even want them to have any way of contacting me.”
Romo hasn’t done the same, but Simpson brushes it off. “I’m not a jealous girlfriend,” she says – even though in a recent interview his ex, Carrie Underwood, claims she still hears from him.
As for her own onetime relationship with John Mayer – which began in 2006 and fizzled out last summer – Simpson survived its rockiness by doing some self-appraisal afterwards.
“I had to regain self-esteem and self-value,” she says.
When it comes to relationships, Simpson says she gives over her heart fully and expects the same in return: “I just love, so I don’t understand when people can’t do exactly what I do.”
[From People.com]
Jessica’s May interview with Glamour magazine, in which she said Tony tried to kiss her on the first date and called him her “future husband,” is said to have embarrassed him and led him to break up with her briefly. People promises that their full interview with Jessica includes the fact that she pines for another marriage and children. How is Tony going to feel about that?
Just about every self help relationship book for women centers around valuing yourself and playing hard to get. They dish out other advice that amounts to the same thing – like keeping busy with your friends, getting hobbies, and generally not centering your life around the guy you’re dating. Jessica isn’t even engaged, she shouldn’t give so much information about her relationship. That’s beyond naive. The guy broke up with her once, she’s a fool if she thinks her relationship is so solid that she should keep blabbing about it like this. Carrie Underwood is laughing at this latest news and circling her wagons, waiting for Tony to call.
Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are shown out in Dallas on 5/26/08. Credit: Fame
I think the not wanting anybody who’s been in her life before to be in it now should include Joe Simpson. But that’s just me.
Bimbo defined.
Thanks for writing this, I was looking for some snarkiness to be in contrast with their fluff article!
Does People have no shame running that front page? Or are they still trying to milk the John Mayer angle before he fades back into obscurity?
When my friends start dating new guys and get into the “this is the one, I’m going to marry him stage!”, it’s my job to shush them and remind them not to be crazy. Maybe she doesn’t have friends, but doesn’t she have handlers to stop her? It’s not even like she’s running around telling all her family and friends – she’s doing it on the front page of People.
CB is exactly right – without an engagement ring, you should probably just STFU about this kind of thing.
Her a** is on the cover of People, though. I think that’s what’s really important to her.
Depending on another person for your happiness usually leads to disappointment.
OMFG, I’m about to defend Jessica Simpson. 😯
Brace yourselves. Okay, I think that if Romo wanted to break up with her, or was about to break up with her, he would have already. I *actually* think they’re in love. I *actually* think Romo and Jess will probably be engaged or married at some point.
Playing hard to get is one thing… but when they’ve been together for …how long? More than a year? Why keep playing games?
HAHHAHAHAHAHAH
BEFORE THE END OF THE SEASON SHE IS DONE….
Was People hard up for someone to put on the cover? We’ve heard/read Jessica say the same crap a million times before.
I totally agree Kaiser. I mean, by now he knows the “real” Jessica and if dating her for real hasn’t turned him off …. I don’t think an article in a magazine will do it.
I don’t like Tony Romo, really. He’s just icky to me. I don’t like Jess either. So….I think they make the perfect couple.
But me not liking them does not mean that I don’t wish them well. I hope they do stay together and get married and live happily.
There’s nothing wrong with people saying how they feel. If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. She’s EXCITED – bravo to her for not putting up a “cool front” just because everyone thinks she should.
I just told him today, ‘You’re the love of my life,’ ” she confesses in the latest cover story. “I don’t really ever say that to anybody.”
Oh Jessica – STFU. Who exactly is “anybody”? You were married. Did you not love your husband? I thought divorce was devastating to you. And the fact that you have to slam former husband/boyfriends in the media with this comment means you have the maturity of a 5 year old.
“I had to regain self-esteem and self-value,” she says.
So she has jumped on the John Mayer trashing train. Always gotta follow the latest trend.
“I just love, so I don’t understand when people can’t do exactly what I do.”
Again Jessica, STFU. Your love is not better and more pure. You’re a divorcee. Your husband has gone on record as saying he did not want the divorce. What kind of love is that?
I don’t know Tony Romo but I’m guessing he’s been booby trapped. Will he be able to love her exactly, yes EXACTLY, the way she expects? Time will tell.
Good for Jess! That she’s still able to “just love” without being cynical after having her heart worked over by that piece of shite, John Mayer, holds out hope for anyone out there who has had his/her heart stomped upon for no good reason. 🙂
WOW: People are trashing John Mayer because he deserves it. He’s a self-serving, star-f*ucker. 👿
Maybe the issue here is not whether Jessica is behaving in a childish manner and showing no restraint when it comes down to expressing her love for Tony Romo, but how it’s the only thing that she’s been doing for the last year or so.
After that horror that was Newlyweds, where she destroyed any mystique she might have built around her by behaving like a complete imbecile 99.9% of the time, all she’s been known for is a string of failed relationships, embarrassing flops and now, her need to mention Tony Romo every two sentences.
It’s almost as if she knew that this is one of the few opportunities she has left to stay relevant and were trying to exploit it for all its worth.
Let’s face it: she has no voice left, doesn’t seem to care about trying to salvage what might remain of it and has been a laughing stock for years.
I guess that Tony does love her after all, but more than love, she seems to feel dread at the idea of this relationship (which is what has saved her from vanishing from the media) disintegrating.
I feel sorry for her. She seems to be the opposite of “wise”.
Pont Neuf – “…behaving like a complete imbecile 99.9% of the time…”
😆 😆 😆
Okay, you really have to point out the 0.1% of the time that she isn’t an imbecile.
Oh, Kaiser… I had to be generous and remind the world that she cannot show us what goes on inside her head while she’s sleeping!
😀
First of all, after nearly a year, Romo must know what Jessica Simpson is like, so this cannot come as a big shock.
If it does, he’s ditzier than she is.
I feel sorry for Jessica. She has no guile. She is not bright, but probably is a sweet woman who basically wants to get married and have kids and everything that is “normal”, and because of her looks ended up getting high-jacked by her father’s ambition and pushed into being famous.
I watched exactly five minutes of one episode of Newleyweds. It is branded in my memory. Jessica was sitting on the couch with Nick (I didn’t know their names at the time, or anything about the show), and she said something (silly, although I can’t remember what), and Nick just turned his head and looked at her like she was an idiot, said nothing, and turned back to watch TV.
I thought “What an a**h**e!!” This is his wife?? If my husband ever looked at me with that kind of contempt, I would nail his butt to a wall and throw darts at it!!
So, my sympathy is for her. She is just one of those sweet, stupid people. Romo must appreciate her sweetness and not be overly anxious to have intellectual conversations.
Nothing wrong with that.
Wow! She’s boring, stupid and uninteresting all at the same time. If you she wasn’t a minor league pop star and actress, she be serving me BIg Macs. And most likely getting the order wrong.
Czarina
I watched all of the episodes of the Newlyweds and I have to say that Nick was so amazing to Jessica. The things that he had to put up with from her – I don’t know how he didn’t go crazy. If anyone dished out crap to a spouse in that relationship, it was Jessica dumping on Nick.
SHE had to change her number? Like any man lucky enough to extricate himself from her would try to call her to get her clingy insanity back!!
Wasn’t there a story about 9 months ago about Nick Lachey having to change HIS number because SHE was constantly calling him?
Then she latched onto Romo.
Linda: I will certainly take your word for it; I really did only see five minutes one time while I was channel surfing. It just struck me that anyone who could look at their spouse with that “You are such a moron” look…that those feelings had to be there, you know?
But since you did watch this show…what was it Nick had to put up with from Jessica? Was it that she was a bimbo? Mean? Selfish?
I ask because she has always struck me as a harmless airhead, but I have never watched anything with her in it, so that could be an assumption on my part.
Well, it isn’t a crime to not be very bright. And I can’t fault her for pursuing fame and fortune…haven’t we all had that dream/fantasy at some point? And, face it, she must have SOMETHING going for her or she wouldn’t have achieved the fame she has.
Granted, I have never heard her sing, nor have I ever seen one of her movies (just her Pizza Hut and acne medicine commercials), but I’m guessing she must have some sort of talent…?
Anyway, I’ve got nothing against her. Hope she and her boyfriend are very happy.
How to explain Jessica – a nag, a whiner, diva, selfish, pouty, messy would not even begin to describe how she lived – beyond dumb and not very giving – it was all about Jessica!
At one point, I was like come on Nick be a man and don’t give in to her selfish ways…let’s just say he put up with a lot – a lot more then I would ever put up with from another human being.
I’m no advocate of Jessica Simpson by any means, but I find it slightly admirable that she’s not masking her feelings or feigning disinterest. I’ve always thought that “playing hard to get” is just that: playing.
If she’s being genuine and it pushes him away, so be it. It would only expose his idiocy.
because, you know, I’m a celeb relationship expert and everything 😛
Cassie-we’re ALL celebrity relationship experts, didn’t you know???LOL!!
So, I was wondering if anyone besides Linda had watched this Newleywed show and if they agreed with her assessment of Jessica or had a different perspective?
Now I’m sorry I never watched it!
I only watched two or three episodes, but she was annoying, and he did put up with a lot of her crap, and when she annoyed him, you could tell, he would give those looks, but he would keep his voice nice in tone. So, I think he loved her, even thought it was obvious he was smarter than her and she was pretty useless around the house, had no idea about finances, ect.
“wow”… you’re an ass.
“I had to regain self-esteem and self-value,” she says.
>>>>So she has jumped on the John Mayer trashing train. Always gotta follow the latest trend. <<<<<
Yeah, totally trashed mayer, baad!!
Um, incase you failed to realise, she didn’t even mention mayer. She was talking about hsrself and the experience of breaking up with somebody. Obviously you havent had many relationships — if you had, you might realise what she is on about.
“I just love, so I don’t understand when people can’t do exactly what I do.”
Again Jessica, STFU. Your love is not better and more pure. <>>> You’re a divorcee. Your husband has gone on record as saying he did not want the divorce. What kind of love is that? <<>>
I don’t know Tony Romo but I’m guessing he’s been booby trapped. <<<>>> enough said!
Chestica will never learn. She’s the future JENNIFER ANNISTON – they’re like the girlfriend you have that goes from one disaster to the next – not learning along the way. TOTALY TWIT
Czarina, I watched a few episodes of the show – actually fell in love with Nick Lachey during that time, because he was so sweet. Jessica spent so much time playing up the “dumb blond who likes to shop routine” — spent money foolishly when he asked her to be careful, insisted on buying the most expensive sheets when he was comfortable in regular cotton, mocked him and his friends when he wanted to watch sports, etc. Everything he did during that time was for her, or them as a couple. She was such a jerk compared to him. To see her with Tony Romo is pretty ridiculous considering her ex husband was a sports fan and she did everything she could to prevent him from watching his games (although he DID watch a lot of sports – maybe as a way of coping with his miserable life).
RAN
I so totally agree with you – I would have NEVER watched that show if it wasn’t for Nick – I fell completely head over heals in love with him because of the way he treated her…the way he was with her is the way any woman would love to be treated by a man. I agree with you on the sports thing as well – she hated football and made fun of him and the one important game he was watching and she interrupted 15 million times because she wanted attention.
The sweetest thing he did is when he had a room turned into a closet for her – she would come home after being on the road and just dump her dirty clothes into a pile in this room – dirty clothes everywhere and she came home one time from a trip and he had hired someone to make the room into a closet and organize it for her and everything. Sigh..of course week’s later it was a disaster area again..but it was like the best surprise ever that a man would do that for someone!
Loved when she couldn’t understand why he was upset when she spent $750 for 2 bras and panties – when she had 50 dirty bras and underwear upstairs in that bedroom!!
Loved Nick – he was one special guy!
Jessica has boobies. Case closed.
I hope the relationship works out for her. She seems sweet though not necessarily bright. Maybe Tony does feel the same way about her; any other guy would have bailed a long time ago.
uuuuughghhgghgh, shut your face Jessica! I watched Newlyweds (not all of them, but a lot) and I loved Nick. She acted like a spoiled brat the whole time. It seems as though she is always playing the ‘poor me’ card. Acting like Nick is the one who stomped on her heart and she has been searching for *true* love ever since. What a joke! Nick didn’t want the divorce, her peroxide a** is the one that cheated on him, and she let her daddy talk her into divorcing Nick. What a twat.
The icing on the cake though is the comment “I just told him today…you’re the love of my life…I don’t really ever say that to anybody”. The brainlessness of the last segment makes me laugh every time.
i think his look of your so dumb came from “you dont behave like this without cameras”
She’s just awful and Nick doesnt pick much better follow ups — vanessa manillo plugs that relationship whenever she can!
but — all in all — I wish Jessica Simpson would go away..
and… so true Anna about Joe Simpson..
Tony Romo is going to get killed in the locker room…
Kathy3, RAN, Linda and Morgs–Thank you for answering my question.
OK, I guess my vibe about Nick and Jessica was off (damn, there goes my ‘Psychic About People I’ve Never Met’ award!!LOL)
Now, my next question would be: was this staged? Obviously they were being filmed. Does anyone think they were encouraged to behave a certain way? Or maybe ‘acting’ for the camera?
I guess I just think that nobody is natural when they know they are being filmed. I wouldn’t be.
(Man, would my kids be thrilled…it would cut their getting yelled at way down…I picture myself starting to yell, then remembering the camera…stiff, tight-lipped smile comes over my face and I squeeze out between clenched teeth “Honey, please try not to break my things anymore, OK?”…yeah, I’m a total candidate for reality TV!!)
I feel sorry for Jessica, too. It seems like she gets far more hate from the likes of us than she actually deserves. She doesn’t strike me as being a dleiberately bad person, not at all. Poor froggie!
Snowblood; “Poor froggie” Exactly!! Like a sweet, lovable, dumb dog that doesn’t understand why people get angry with it when its only doing what comes naturally…!
At least she’s (probably) housebroken!
@ czarina:
I believe in the beginning the show was less scripted and put together. But Nick gave an interview after they split saying that MTV and the general media cast them in their roles. Nick: down to earth, good guy, willing to put up with the frog’s idiotic tendencies…Jess: Epitomy of dumb blond. He said that this wasn’t how they were in the beginning of their marriage and life, but they adopted their “roles” and sooner or later, life started to imitate *art*. He said it really added to the demise of their relationship.
She looks like such a needy little b.
She probably has trouble finding the right guy because no one is like Daddy.
Poor Ashley goes and picks a guy totally opposite from Daddy and find herself a bisexual husband. What’s up with these Simpson girls.
Jeanne said:
“Poor Ashley goes and picks a guy totally opposite from Daddy and find herself a bisexual husband. What’s up with these Simpson girls.”
Just have to stick up for Pete and Ashley! And bisexual or not, he seems to be an extraordinary husband and father-to-be. I wish I’d had been even HALF as lucky as Ashley in my choice of partners. (Mine all left as soon as I had our baby.)
i didn’t see the whole series, but i did watch a few episodes, and i don’t like the way he treated her either. there was one instance where she thought the word “camaraderie” meant a type of dog, or something inane like that. nick’s response was angry and mocking.
granted, it isn’t easy to deal with such a complete idiot. but he must have known that before he married her!
surely there have been times in everyone’s relationships when their partner said something stupid – how you handle it really shows your level of affection and maturity.