I think we should all cut Jessica Simpson some slack, dammit!

[Bake]

She's on the cover of People Ragazine defending her weight ... John Mayer dumped her ... Romo cheated on her ... she gets derided all the time as an airhead ... c'mon people, cut her some slack!!

Bake

[graywarrior]

1. I'm not a fan, but the weight thing is really ridiculous

She looks pretty damn good, if you ask me.

[guitar man]

2. I really didn't find her that attractive

...until she put a few pounds on, now she's starting to get interesting :P

[azmouse]

3. I wish I was as 'fat' as she is...

The pressure on women to be stick thin has gotten out of hand. Jessica looks fine and healthy.
Too many women in entertainment look like they desperately need a hot meal.

[huskerlaw]

4. She isn't fat...

she made an extremely poor fashion choice. Those jeans would have made anyone look chunky.

Meanwhile, she *is* an airhead.

[Bake]

7. She PLAYS an airhead.

We don't know if she really is one, though.

Bake

[BeachBaby]

9. She most certainly is an airhead.

[Left Is Write]

13. Is she? She's managed to capitalize pretty well on that image -

which seems to indicate some shrewdness in cultivating it.

[Shell Beau]

15. I think she is a lot smarter than people give her credit for.

[BeachBaby]

17. That was all thanks to daddy.

All you gotta do is hear some of her audio conversations - like the ones that TMZ catches. Oh, man. I actually am embarrassed for her sometimes.

But only sometimes. :P

[motely36]

18. I'm not so sure

People like suzanne somers and damn...I just forgot her name...the blond on WKRP, made millions playing dumb blonds and neither really are.

edited to say - Loni Anderson

[Left Is Write]

19. Loni Anderson.

[Shakespeare]

44. No, she's really not that bright. When she was about to enter junior high...

...the school district wanted to classify her as learning disabled (My cousin was a teacher at the school she attended). Her parents flipped out and immediately moved her to private school, because they didn't want her branded with that label.

She's always struck me as a very sweet, not-too-bright young woman who's been exploited by everybody around her (including her creepy father).

[Shell Beau]

49. Her mom claims that she was given an IQ test as a 5th grader

after a teacher called her a space cadet. She says she scored 160. Not sure if that is true.

[Left Is Write]

50. I would doubt it.

160 is really unusually high.

[Shell Beau]

56. Absolutely! Just what her mom said in Vanity Fair.

[kwassa]

59. A child can be highly intelligent and learning-disabled.

a category we call Gifted and Talented Learning Disabled in our local schools.

The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

[Left Is Write]

61. I didn't say they were.

I said 160 is an unusually high IQ score, and it is. For anyone, LD or not.

[dawgmom]

69. Even if she is just PLAYING an airhead, that makes her one

Please spare me from women who act like idiots, and the men who think that's attractive. It makes me want to puke. In fact, I think I shall. :puke:

[Shell Beau]

5. She isn't fat that is for sure.

Now her talent (or lack thereof).... :P

[nadine_mn]

6. She is not fat but come on... those were some nasty

jeans... that's what she should be embarrassed about

[Left Is Write]

11. The high-waisted pants with gargantuan pockets and the double belt didn't do her any favors, no.

[HopeHoops]

8. Who?

[Left Is Write]

10. I'm kind of irritated at one magazine cover I saw yesterday - maybe it was People.

It said something like "Everyone (even the president!) is talking about her weight!"

Well, no. The president is not talking about her weight. Anyone who saw the Matt Lauer Obama interview on Super Bowl Sunday could clearly see he was making reference ONLY to the Jessica Simpson headline that was in place of where his face had been on an Obama family portrait.

[no name no slogan]

12. I would still hit it like the fist of an angry god.

nt

[Bake]

40. Damn, now that is hittin' it!

Bake

[Crazy Dave]

14. She's fine! n/t

[JVS]

16. Should we ask Chris Crocker to do a "Leave Jessica Alone" video?

[Left Is Write]

20. We could, but Chris is so over.

:P

[tabbycat31]

21. it's not her, it's those awful jeans that she was wearing

Mom jeans are to be avoided at all costs. Throw the jeans away and burn them. They don't flatter anyone

[no name no slogan]

45. She's no longer a woman.... she's a MOM!

[spookybutt]

22. The woman is gorgeous...she really is...even at this weight...

There's just a lot of haters in this world!

[KG]

23. i'd hit it.

[MilesColtrane]

24. All she has to do for me to cut her slack is to stop making movies and albums.

Until then I'll maintain my opinion of her as a talentless hack.

I couldn't care less about her weight or who she dates.

[kwassa]

25. are high-waisted jeans making a comeback?

Really scary

[AlCzervik]

27. i hope not, not only is the style awful but the color is too.

if she had on normal jeans and loosened that belt up a few notches she's look fine.

[kwassa]

29. It's twue, it's twue!

Jessica is on the left in another pair.

[AlCzervik]

31. ick.

i'll stick with my mid rise.

[kwassa]

32. looks like Mom Jeans, doesn't it?

[AlCzervik]

34. yup, high waist and pleats, doesn't get much more unflattering than that.

[Left Is Write]

51. High waist, pleats, and tapered legs.

And, for good measure, no back pockets.

Guaranteed to add 20 pounds to your appearance, just like that!

[AlCzervik]

52. lol, do you remember Chic jeans?

[Left Is Write]

55. Oh, yes.

I remember the fashion we used to call "baggies," which I wouldn't be caught dead in now.

[AlCzervik]

57. omg yes, baggies! Those were in for awhile.

[geardaddy]

35. I love that "commercial"

:rofl:

[Lucian]

38. Is that what the media is considering fat?

I consider that hot. :wow:

[AlCzervik]

42. i guess so, she's guilty of having a horrible outfit and that's all, she also has a nice bucket.

[redqueen]

43. What does "high-waisted" mean?

Where it goes up to the bend in your waist?

I thought those were just regular jeans - as opposed to low-rise.

:shrug:

I hate fashion.

[kwassa]

46. past the belly button, now, and beyond!

[AlCzervik]

47. Think Ed Grimley.

[Left Is Write]

53. There's a lot of middle ground between low-rise and high-waisted.

The waistbands of my best jeans hit a couple of inches below my belly button. I'm short-waisted, so if I wore high-waisted pants, I'd look like Ed Grimley.

[AlCzervik]

58. exactly, i wear mid rise.

[redqueen]

67. I'm completely hopeless re: fashion.

I buy jeans that go up to my belly-button. If that means I'm wearing high-waisted mom jeans then oh well.

[Shell Beau]

65. Actually they did make a comeback. But I think it will be a short lived one.

[madinmaryland]

26. She's hanging out with Barry Bonds and A-rod??

roid raging!!

[kwassa]

28. She is bulking up on steroids, then.

Tomorrow, the interview on ESPN.

[madinmaryland]

30. She'll either deny using it, or say that she was naive and immature!!

[kwassa]

33. oh, we know it was the intense pressure put on her to compete!

She wasn't thinking clearly.

[madinmaryland]

37. Well, it could have been a clear gel that she thought was flaxseed oil

[kwassa]

39. that flaxseed oil is tricky stuff.

this picture is before she bulked up with all the muscles.

[KamaAina]

36. Romo cheated on her??!!

Hmmm... out of nowhere, turtlensue changes her name to TZ for "personal reasons"... now we learn that Romo has been tomcatting around... :tinfoilhat:

edit: spelling

[Bake]

41. According to the Enquirer, yes.

Unless it was just a teaser headline! As for the TZ connection, I can neither confirm nor deny ...

Bake

[madinmaryland]

54. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

:rofl:

[TZ]

62. PFFFFT!

Trust me..I'm waaaay too smart and too independent for somelike like Romo...:grr:

[Deja Q]

48. Nothing wrong with her weight; the media is rabid. Dunno John. Romo is a bastard.

She's gotten her fair share of slack when due.

She'll get her share of sympathy from me as well. Nobody should be cheated on; those who promote doing so are animals.

Not much of an airhead if she made herself a success by being or pretending to be one. Never mind her audiences that wanted more either. Like Obi Wan Kenobi once said, something like "Who is the bigger fool: The leader or those who are willing to be led by the leader." Though no doubt the same phrase was coined centuries earlier by Shakespeare and maybe somebody before him too.

[skygazer]

60. I imagine she's delighted - she's on the cover of every magazine

Publicity - what every third-rate celebrity craves more than anything. And she didn't even have to pay for it - just had to wear a plug-ugly pair of jeans. My immediate thought was that she wore them purposely to generate controversy and get those magazine covers. But I'm a cynic at heart.

[kwassa]

68. Gaining and losing weight can be a celebrity publicity strategy

It certainly takes up endless tabloid space.

[applegrove]

63. She's probably the only person in Hollywood at a healthy weight right now.

[AngryAmish]

64. I think we all should cut Jessica Simpson some ham, dammit

That would make her happy. And some home fries, too.

[underpants]

66. Any size Jessica is A-OKAY with me