Exclusive: Jessica Simpson Eats Cockroaches for Reality Show
Credit: Joe Simpson/VH1
Jessica Simpson has been thinking.
"There's so much pressure on women to be beautiful," muses the singer, 29, in the opening moments of her much-anticipated new VH1 reality show. "But what defines beauty?"
Her solution: Travel around the world to learn what women in different cultures do to feel beautiful. And bring best friends CaCee Cobb and hairstylist Ken Paves along for the ride. Oh, and capture it all on camera for The Price of Beauty, which premieres March 15.
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Judging from the first two episodes, Simpson's latest TV effort plays like The Amazing Race (um, minus the race) meets Oprah. Simpson gets a mild taste of cultural flavor, participates in quirky customs and interviews locals who went to dangerous extremes in their quest to be gorgeous.
Relive Jessica's most outrageous moments
For a teen popster who became a bona fide superstar thanks to her ditzy behavior on MTV's Newlyweds with then-husband Nick Lachey (recap: Chicken of the Sea is not chicken), Simpson tries valiantly to rein in her antics. During her stay in Thailand, she samples fried cockroaches because they contain hair-strengthening amino acids. She also becomes visibly distraught meeting a local singer who was so desperate to lighten her skin that she permanently damaged her appearance, thus losing her husband and her career.
Check out startling body transformations from Jessica and other stars!
Simpson hasn't completely lost her immature touch, however. While praying with a Buddhist monk, she bursts into a giggling fit.
Next stop? Paris, where she gets caught up in the fashion industry's pressure to be reed-skinny. (There's a pop-up graphic informing audiences that a French model's average weight is 115 pounds.) Notoriously ridiculed for her weight in recent years, Simpson is aghast talking to a former anorexic model. Then she sweats it out while prepping to strut on a runway during the city's Pret a Porter showcase.
See photos of Jessica and other celebs without makeup
Final verdict: Though she comes off as genuinely interested and sympathetic to the people whom she encounters, it's obvious that she's only really enjoying herself when she's getting her massage treatments.
Check it out. (You too, Nick.)
-- By Mara Reinstein for Usmagazine.com.
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44Jessica doesn't deserve to be slammed in the press. I'll just leave it at that. AND the comment about her legs?? TOTALLY un-called for! Her legs are beautiful and who are you to judge?
Jessica are you outof your mind. you do not eat bugs for lunch you dont' know where they've been
You posters on here spewing hate are the most pathetic excuses of a human being on the face of the planet. You are so jealous of Jess. You are the fat, ugly (inside and out) single losers who have nothing better to do with your time than sit here and read about her, despite the fact you say you hate her. So my question is why do you bother reading her posts? Go away, go find someone that makes you happy, or is your life that ridiculous that you can't even do that? Are you drunks? Are you beaten by your toothless drunk man? Do you live in a trailer and are that jealous? And to make fun of her legs?? They are fine, unlike your cellulite vericose veined legs that you are so afraid to show that you never would imagine wearing a pair of shorts except in the privacy of your own pigsty that you call your home. Jess is real, she is beautiful, she is funny. At least she doesn't worry about farting or burping because God forbid a woman have the same physical issues a man does. I am so sick of the negativity. Get your own life or make your own life happier. Until you can do that, leave Jess alone. She will survive, she is the rich, beautiful woman that John Mayer just admitted was a drug to him. I'd like to hear some man say something remotely close to that about you...... that he'd like to snort you up and they're sex life was crazy, in a good way. YOU WILL NEVER BE LIKE JESS. You will always be a nobody and you may think she's fat, which she's not, but she can go on a diet, and lose weight the real natural way without liposuction. You are plain ugly and nothing u can do about it except sit there and cry and whine and probably cut your bipolar diseased body so you feel better............ now crawl back under the rock from which your pathetic, demented, ugly, fat a$$ came from because you are a disease.
I wonder if the roaches gave her more "GAS"? LOL
The idea is interesting, but there is one glaring problem that will cause the show to fail and it rhymes with Messica Dim-son.
So im guessing that nobody realizes that Jessica doesnt really care and maybe you should all look at the title of the SHOW, TRUE BEAUTY ring a bell to anyone.
Roaches huh? She needs the world purest and most concentrated antioxidents for anti aging Colloidal Gold 3000 PPM
To February 25, 2010 - 1:07pm anon -- why don't you grow up???
How funny how the poster - Not falling for it - judges anonymous ppl and thinks that a post makes us think we're more important. I don't think I'm more important than anyone. You are the miseraable one.
I predict that this will be the first reality show to go straight to DVD. Then the people who run things around the media world will get a clue on how much the public really dislikes the Simpson family!!!
The show sounds dumb, but I still might have tuned in just to see CaCee Cobb if Jessica weren't involved in it. CaCee is a good looking woman. Jessica is not (good looking or a woman).
What was Jessica thinking, exposing her stubby masculine legs in this picture when she is posing with people who have prettier, more shapely legs than she does. Even the man has more feminine legs than Jessica.
February 25, 2010 - 12:52pm lala Says: I'll watch it. The people leaving negative comments too will also---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I don't think so. The people who posted negative stuff about her when she was trying to sell that crappy country album didn't buy it and Columbia Nashville dumped her. The people who posted negative stuff about her when she thought she was an actress didn't want to to see her. One of the movies had an opening of something like $800 and the next one was straight to dvd. The pattern will continue with the reality show. Lots of hateful comments don't translate into an audience for her.
Hah, Nicole...I totally agree with you :)
wow jessica u are such a fame wh0re u do anything for attention news flash your not that young or hot anymore you are almost 30 and u arent in your early 20s anymore loser why dont u just give up u always fail with everything like, weight, music career, selling albums, marrige/relationships u are just a failure and u are really fat and why dont u just fall off of the face of the earth already u and ur family are so irrelavant nowadays u + ur sis arent hot at all anymore u are both failurs and ugly ashlee with her ugly fake red hair can go suck it and fall off of the face of the earth already!!!!!!!
wow jessica u are such a fame wh0re u do anything for attention news flash your not that young or hot anymore you are almost 30 and u arent in your early 20s anymore loser why dont u just give up u always fail with everything like, weight, music career, selling albums, marrige/relationships u are just a failure and u are really fat and why dont u just fall off of the face of the earth already u and ur family are so irrelavant nowadays u + ur sis arent hot at all anymore u are both failurs and ugly ashlee with her ugly fake red hair can go suck it and fall off of the face of the earth already!!!!!!!
The author of this article was way too nice about Jessica. I don't understand what all the Simpson family members posting here are upset about. It's not like Us called Jessica a moronic fat cow. They should have and it's disappointing that they didn't, but sadly, there is nothing mean in it.
Who cares??? The readers are not moved by her.
Not falling for it-3:24. You are just as horrible. If you like liars, fakes, and phonies, that's your problem. Most people don't, and that is why they don't like Jessica. Sure she gets paid for selling her name, but only fools like you believe she is a fashion designer. The saddest thing of all is all your negative comments about how everyone else is miserable. NOT!! The only miseralbe one is you for loving such a loser like jessica. Your the joke for loving her. If you don't like it, get your fat buttt off the computer.
Jessica Simpson is a joke! Why do they call her a star? I don't know of anything she has done well. She can't sing, she can't act, but according to the men, she's good in bed!!!Her father should be horse-whipped!!!!!!!!