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February 21st, 2025

Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson Talk New Music, Heartbreak, and Prince

The Jessica & Ashlee Show After “the deepest heartbreak of my life,” Jessica Simpson is back with new music — and ready to spill with her sister.

Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson Ross are different women today than the ones smiling above the headline “Sister Power!” on their first magazine cover together, for Teen People’s December 2005 issue. In the two decades since, the sisters, now in their 40s, have each had three children and a couple marriages (famously gaining, in Ashlee’s case, Diana Ross as a mother-in-law) and released even more music; Jessica built her eponymous clothing and shoe label, too. Then, in 2020, Jessica’s memoir, Open Book — in which she candidly discusses her struggles with alcoholism, body image, and surviving fame in the pop-stars-with-purity-rings era — became a best seller. Jessica now finds herself on a new path, one with fewer compromises and more country rock, with the release of an emotional EP, Nashville Canyon Part 1, which includes songs written amid the dissolution of her decadelong marriage to former NFL player Eric Johnson. “Through the deepest heartbreak of my life,” Jessica tells Ashlee at her eclectic jewel-tone-drenched Los Angeles home, filled with feathers, dogs, and memorabilia, “it was the most intense yet enlightening therapy I’ve ever been through.”

Ashlee Simpson Ross: Well, hello, Jessica Simpson. Or shall I say “Rajah”? I’ve always called you Rajah, from Aladdin.

Jessica Simpson: It was the only Nintendo game we played.

ASR: We loved that one. I was just laughing because the last time that we did a joint cover was Teen People. How do you think our lives have changed? Our marriages, breakups, children. I had a baby so early. But what a freaking journey we’ve had. Holy moly. I feel like I’ve changed a lot. What about you?

JS: You and I both. Oh my gosh, 25 years old. I was in a newfound freedom because I was going through a divorce. I was becoming myself all over again.

ASR: We stayed close to each other through these transitions. It’s almost funny, because we’ve been through so many of those.

JS: We stayed close as a family, no matter our parents going through a divorce, no matter all of our divorces. I probably faked it until I made it way more than most. When I first got to Nashville to write my new record last year, I listened to CeCe Winans over and over — “I Surrender All.” Her version still gives me chills because I was there to surrender all. I discovered so much that wasn’t true about the life I was leading that led me to shed everything all over again. Here I am again like I was at 25, out here floating around in the atmosphere on my own, but I know I’ve got my own back and it’s all in God’s hands when we surrender everything. That is our upbringing. Our faith is what always leads us back to our strength, for sure.

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November 29th, 2023

Exclusive: Jessica Simpson on Entering Her Icon Era, New Music and Her Brand’s ‘Billion’-Dollar Outlook for 2024

On Nov. 29, Jessica Simpson will be honored with the Icon Award at the 37th annual FN Achievement Awards. Below is an article from the magazine’s Nov. 27 print issue about how she charted a path to icon status by always being herself.

Jessica Simpson is giddy.

Positively bouncing off the virtual walls of Zoom — if that is possible. the camera’s off, but it doesn’t matter. The intonation and signature hint of drawl in her voice are effervescent as ever.

The star immediately launches into a conversation about a flight to Nashville. She has been recording music there recently, after temporarily relocating her family to the city from Los Angeles last summer.

“It’s like a retreat for me. I get to just crawl up inside my head and embrace my heart,” she says. “I feel so enlightened there. Writing music has become a beautiful therapeutic thing for me that I didn’t know was so natural, but it’s because I haven’t done it in so long. It’s just nice to know that I’m meeting myself back in this place, as a woman, and after going through everything that I’ve been through in my life. There’s a sense of freedom and empowerment.” The singer says she has more than 400 poems recorded in her journals from the past few months.

The studio as sanctuary is a familiar trope for any musician, but it has taken the singer through some of her tougher years. She recorded her 2006 album, “A Public Affair,” after a very public divorce from Nick Lachey. It’s also where she went as she was getting sober, reconciling with her father and pondering what to write in her 2020 memoir, “Open Book.” That both of those titles allude to a boundary-less presence in the public sphere is no coincidence. Simpson has always worn her heart — and her inner monologue — on her sleeve.

The new music (set to release in early 2024, with a tour to follow) will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire of current Y2K nostalgia, bringing her millennial followers closer to those halcyon afternoons of the MTV “TRL” era. It also will be a chance to reintroduce Simpson as a music artist, given that a generation of fans know her more for her shoes than as a pop star who broke onto the scene in 1999 at 19 years old. Or, for that matter, as the 22-year-old reality TV wife from “Newlyweds,” the pioneering 2003 MTV series that predated “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and the “Real Housewives.”