If you were to go back in time and find the teenage version of myself sitting on the couch and getting sucked into a marathon of Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, you’d probably have a hard time convincing me that Jessica Simpson would one day become a spokesperson for women and body positivity. Back in the day, Jessica played the character of a ditzy babe with an ever-growing collection of Louis Vuitton bags who was most well known for a) not knowing what tuna was, b) having sexy legs, and c) abstaining from sex until her wedding day. Since then, she’s been dragged through the tabloid mud, gained and lost and gained and lost weight, and turned into a really decent role model. She just did an interview with Today that proved that she’s really come into her own.
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