Jessica Simpson Elle April 2012: Talks About Media Calling Her “Fat”
March 8, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Jessica Simpson offers a refutation to those who’ve been mocking her pregnancy weight gain in her cover interview with Elle April 2012, telling detractors and critics of her pregnancy weight: “I’m still standin’, I grew up very strong!”
It’s already been established that her Photoshopped bare bump is passe with a dozen celebrities striking the trite pose for similar covers. Simpson’s does feel a little more manufactured; more false. It’s an odd cover. Seeing it in context with the rest of the photo shoot, it becomes apparent that she’s been very heavily-edited to look thinner, possibly, and there’s SO much weird shadowing around her chest, her belly, her hips, her thighs and everywhere else that it almost beggars belief that she wasn’t wearing some kind of underwear that later needed to be digitally removed. Either that’s the excuse or it was just sloppy, obvious workmanship.
In any case, following yesterday’s excerpts, her full interview has been released and it’s more of the same: talking about her giant baby, possibly 10-pounds to her 6-pounds when she was born; drinking, not realising she was first trimester; her girl being “athletic.”
On her hopes for her daughter’s sense of style: “Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!” she blurts out, her Dallas accent swooping back in this moment of heightened anxiety. “Eric is so athletic. We’re gonna have this ath-a-letic girl and I won’t even be able to take her shopping, ’cause all she’s gonna want is sports bras and Nikes!”
On taking tabloid brutality in stride: “I’m still standin’,” she drawls. “I grew up very strong! You know, my father used to be an adolescent therapist. I remember sitting at his office, watching the girls walkin’ in and out. Kids doin’ coke at 16…heroin. Pregnant at 14. I could see what I didn’t want to be.”
On her body subconsciously telling her she was pregnant: “We were goin’ to have an all-day drinking binge,” Simpson says, not shy about saying so. “Gonna ride our bikes, hang out…do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt. Why would I feel guilt at the idea of going out and having cocktails with my friends?”
On her heavy baby: “I was only six pounds,” she notes. “So maybe Eric and I can meet in the middle.” – via Elle Magazine.
The spread is re-posted, this time with some commentary about the styling in each photo.
PHOTO CREDIT – ELLE MAGAZINE
