I must admit to being rather surprised when I heard Jessica had landed the latest VF cover. But reading the accompanying feature, I understand it a bit better.
What a refreshing change to read a PROPER celebrity profile of the pop star (heck, of ANY celebrity) instead of the usual magazine fluff and puff – due to the fact that celebrities will not pose for photos unless they have approval of the feature that accompanies it.
Ever wondered why most women’s magazines are forced to run such bland interviews? That’s why. They need the celebs……..
…….to sell their magazines and the celebs use that power accordingly to control their image.
Anyway. Vanity Fair is different. I very much doubt they ever grant feature approval to any celebrity they interview because they are one of the few magazines important and powerful enough to be able to stand up to celebrity publicists.
This feature paints an at times poignant portrait of a talented girl who has followed the star path almost as far as it’s going to take her. It suggests Jessica Simpson’s talent has just about run its course. Some highlights:
“….but as surprising as her appearance—how she seemed to be turning,
before our eyes, into just another performer on the never-ending Opry
circuit (she was, in fact, promoting her first country album, Do You Know, the genre being a tempting refuge for struggling Top 40 stars)—was the venue: a strawberry festival in Plant City, Florida. Plant City Florida for God’s sake!
Even if the pounds were shed quickly, even if, as Simpson’s camp
insists, they were never there in the first place, the dissemination of
the photos was a blow for Simpson, who, like all starlets, has been
careful to be pictured in just one way: as the skinny,
forever-24-year-old sex bomb. What’s more, in April she was spoofed in
an Eminem video as a gone-to-seed pop tart spilling out of her Daisy
Dukes, hiking a cheeseburger to Tony Romo, played by Eminem.
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i went and read the full article over at vanity fair and totally agree that it's a refreshing profile on Jessica Simpson! I used to like her, then didn't like her when she split with Nick...and after reading that...i respect her again!
Mimi, the thing about Jessica Simpson is that she is NOT fat. She never has been, at least while she's been in the public eye. For most of the part, she's been quite healthy looking, would probably only be about a size 12, at her bigest, and yet people critisize her for being fat. That is the issue here. And there's a difference between being slim, and being as thin as the Miss Universe contestant is, if she's who I'm thinking of. No, there is never call for suggesting that someone has an eating disorder. But there is also nothing wrong with suggesting to people, especially young girls, that looking the way she does, unless you actually are naturally that thin, is healthy, and a good thing.