Jessica Simpson Shares Diary Entries About Nick Lachey Divorce, ‘Mom Jeans’ Body-Shaming and More in ‘Open Book’

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Jessica Simpson Shares Diary Entries About Nick Lachey Divorce, ‘Mom Jeans’ Body-Shaming and More in ‘Open Book’

Open Book is the gift that keeps on giving. Jessica Simpson added several diary entries to the paperback edition of her headline-making memoir, sharing journal passages about her divorce from Nick Lachey, being body-shamed and so much more. The 40-year-old musician’s Open Book was originally published in February 2020. The new edition also includes an additional introduction written by Simpson in November 2020. "Part of me didn't want to finish the book because I knew I'd miss you,” she wrote. “I didn't know it was the start of the conversation." The fashion designer detailed encounters with readers, including a woman who experienced similar sexual abuse as a child as Simpson. After she got visibly emotional in front of Simpson and her eldest daughter, Maxwell, at a signing, the actress was forced to tell her 8-year-old about being inappropriately touched by a family friend as a child. “‘Well, in the book Mommy talks about when she was a little bit younger than you …’ I paused. This was going to have to be the time for our talk. ‘I struggled with somebody touching me in an uncomfortable way,’” she recalled in the paperback edition. “‘Oh, that’s so sad, Mommy,’ she said.” [sendtonews type="float" key="1gVlA0XbJ2-2838970-14453"] After Maxwell said, “That won’t happen to me,” Simpson got real: “‘We don’t want it to, no,’ I said. ‘And if it ever did, I want you to be able to tell them to stop and tell Daddy or me right away.’” Simpson and husband Eric Johnson are also parents of son Ace, 7, and daughter Birdie, 2. The twosome wed in 2014, eight years after she finalized her divorce from Lachey, 47. In addition to writing about her marriage to the boy band member in the tell-all, Simpson got candid about her relationships with Johnny Knoxville, John Mayer and Tony Romo. “None of those men have reached out to me and I didn’t expect any of them to,” the “I Think I’m In Love With You” songstress told Us Weekly after the book’s initial release. “They all know these stories, so I don’t think any of this came as a surprise to any of them.” The paperback edition of Open Book is available now. Scroll through for the biggest revelations from the diary entries and intro:

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Jessica Simpson Shares Diary Entries About Nick Lachey Divorce, ‘Mom Jeans’ Body-Shaming and More in ‘Open Book’

Open Book is the gift that keeps on giving. Jessica Simpson added several diary entries to the paperback edition of her headline-making memoir, sharing journal passages about her divorce from Nick Lachey, being body-shamed and so much more. The 40-year-old musician’s Open Book was originally published in February 2020. The new edition also includes an additional introduction written by Simpson in November 2020. "Part of me didn't want to finish the book because I knew I'd miss you,” she wrote. “I didn't know it was the start of the conversation." The fashion designer detailed encounters with readers, including a woman who experienced similar sexual abuse as a child as Simpson. After she got visibly emotional in front of Simpson and her eldest daughter, Maxwell, at a signing, the actress was forced to tell her 8-year-old about being inappropriately touched by a family friend as a child. “‘Well, in the book Mommy talks about when she was a little bit younger than you …’ I paused. This was going to have to be the time for our talk. ‘I struggled with somebody touching me in an uncomfortable way,’” she recalled in the paperback edition. “‘Oh, that’s so sad, Mommy,’ she said.” [sendtonews type="float" key="1gVlA0XbJ2-2838970-14453"] After Maxwell said, “That won’t happen to me,” Simpson got real: “‘We don’t want it to, no,’ I said. ‘And if it ever did, I want you to be able to tell them to stop and tell Daddy or me right away.’” Simpson and husband Eric Johnson are also parents of son Ace, 7, and daughter Birdie, 2. The twosome wed in 2014, eight years after she finalized her divorce from Lachey, 47. In addition to writing about her marriage to the boy band member in the tell-all, Simpson got candid about her relationships with Johnny Knoxville, John Mayer and Tony Romo. “None of those men have reached out to me and I didn’t expect any of them to,” the “I Think I’m In Love With You” songstress told Us Weekly after the book’s initial release. “They all know these stories, so I don’t think any of this came as a surprise to any of them.” The paperback edition of Open Book is available now. Scroll through for the biggest revelations from the diary entries and intro:

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On Calling It Quits

Simpson and Lachey split in November 2005 after three years of marriage.

“I didn’t want to be married any longer, but I was also afraid to be alone with ‘no one to call my own but the night,’” Simpson wrote alongside an entry from the time. “The house is hushed, everything is still. I sit in solitude, to cry, to feel alone. Giving up on giving in.”

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On Nick Moving On

“So Nick, u r with another already?" Simpson wrote in a 2006 entry about her first husband dating Vanessa Lachey (née Minnillo). ”Seems that you forgot the love you spoke to me … It is only because I am alone in the dark [with] no one to call my own, but the night. Oh night, love me tenderly, love me quiet, find me happy, find me right. Oh lord, let your star shine upon me tonight."

Nick and Vanessa wed in 2011 and share three kids of their own.

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On Being Body-Shamed

Simpson made headlines in 2009 when she performed at Radio 99.9 Kiss Country’s annual Chili Cookoff. In Open Book, she recalled being “devastated and confused” by stories about her curves in a pair of “mom jeans.”

She shared an entry from the time: “I could end up ruining everything with this self-doubt. … Why does the cruel opinion of this world get to me?”

Simpson also noted in the passage that she “went back and read” her entries from 1999 when she was body-shamed by a label executive. “I beat myself about how fat I am before I gave the world a chance to. Today my heart breaks because people say I’m fat,” she wrote. “I wear a size 25. … How much do I think about my body on a scale from 1-100 percent of the day? 80 percent.”

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On an Apology From a Romo Fan

In the book, Simpson wrote about how difficult it was to be blamed for then-boyfriend Romo’s mishaps during any Dallas Cowboys games. During her book tour, a woman approached her and apologized for dressing up as Simpson and yelling distracting things at the quarterback in a blonde wig and Romo jersey in a viral video from one game.

“‘I jumped on the bandwagon and I dressed up as you, not knowing that you were … uh human.’ We hugged, two humans,” Simpson recalled in the new edition, noting she “bawled” during the encounter.

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On the Abuse

Simpson also shares photos in the new edition, including a snap of her as a child. “I look at this face on innocence, and I know I was keeping a painful secret,” she wrote. “I was being sexually abused and I had been for a few years already. I would smile for the camera and then lie in bed at night, unable to sleep, worried that my secret made me a sinner.”

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On Finding Her Purpose

“I feel this tugging, yearning to do something great,” she wrote in one entry. “Maybe we shouldn’t waste time trying to get somewhere? Maybe we are already there?”