At the height of the Teen Pop craze, Jessica Simpson sat on the charts alongside Britney, Christina and Mandy Moore. She enjoyed million-selling hits, before becoming a reality TV pioneer with ‘Newlyweds’. She starred as Daisy Duke – then it all sort of fell apart. In 2005, she launched the Jessica Simpson Collection, these days a billion-dollar brand distributed in more than sixty-two countries. Unbelievably, it is the most successful celebrity-licensing brand in history.
With the release of her new autobiography, she adds one more title to her resume – #1 New York Times best-selling author. Not bad for the girl who asked “is this chicken or fish?” while eating tuna.
It’s easy to see why the book connected with readers. She’s been through her fair share of pop culture controversies, and the book addresses them all. Her struggles to fit the pop mould, a very public divorce, the blonde jokes, her alcoholism and the sexual abuse she suffered as a child – the book covers it all with an honest and self-deprecating style.
The woman behind the pop-culture cliché’s – “football jinx,” “mum jeans,” “sexual napalm…” Open Book feels like a great chat with a girlfriend you haven’t seen in a long time.
