If you ask Us, Jessica Simpson has had a fabulous figure at every stage of the game, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t faced her fair share of criticism.
Simpson stepped into the spotlight at age 19 when her 1999 debut album, Sweet Kisses, was released. Instantly known as a blonde bombshell with a killer voice, the Texas native soon became a full-on cultural phenomenon.
With a tan and toned frame, Simpson was seen as a fitness sensation from the start. Never afraid to show off her assets, Simpson wore bold clothes on the red carpet and as street style. During the early aughts, that meant plenty of crop tops and super-low pants. One fashion misstep came about while performing at a chili cook-off in Florida in 2009 — the infamous mom jeans incident — led to bullying over her fuller figure.
“It’s unfair,” she told Redbook in 2014 of the scrutiny. “What woman wants to be brought down for wearing a pair of jeans?”
Simpson was also subject of criticism amid her pregnancies with daughter Maxwell, son Ace and daughter Birdie in 2011, 2013 and 2019, respectively. Simpson, who shares her children with estranged husband Eric Johnson, later shed the excess weight.
“I don’t really look at it as, like, a weight loss journey. I think it’s a journey of empowerment and self-love and acceptance,” Simpson exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2022. “It’s one of those things [where] it’s, like, we all want what we can’t have. We all want the body type that we aren’t [and] that we can’t change. So it’s about accepting and loving ourselves for who we are.”
Scroll through to see Simpson’s amazing body evolution over the years:
