Jessica Simpson wants women of all ages to know that you are more than one number on the scale.
Following the success of her bestseller Open Book, the mother of three collaborated with Amazon Original Stories to publish an original essay entitled Take the Lead.
Available for free to Prime members and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, the personal writing project examines Jessica’s public journey with her weight and why she ultimately decided to ditch her scale.
Three weeks before greeting her now 2-year-old daughter BirdieJessica remembered stepping on the scales and finding that she “weighed more than my husband [Eric Johnson]The singer and actress said she sat on the tub and burst into tears.
“Here I was to create life, this miracle baby that we didn’t expect but welcomed because we knew she was exactly what we needed to complete our family,” she wrote. “My heart was literally beating for her. I looked down at my stomach, which was all I could see back then, and then at the scales. ‘That,’ I said aloud, ‘is not right.'”
