Jessica Simpson isn’t going to let a number on a scale “define” her.
The singer-turned-fashion designer has been candid about her health journey with fans. And she shared the one thing she did that helped her feel better about herself in her weight loss journey.
During her appearance on Today on Thursday (April 29), Jessica told host Hoda Kotb that she no longer needs to see a number on a scale to know where she’s at in her health journey.
“I have no idea how much I weigh. I just want to be able to feel good and zip my pants up. If I don’t, I have another size. I have every size,” she said.
“I’ve really tried my hardest to not let [my weight] define me,” she added.
In her Amazon Original Stories essay, Take the Lead: An Essay, Jessica opened up about how much her weight used to affect her.
“While I was working on my book in 2019, three weeks before I had Birdie, I weighed myself,” she wrote, referencing her memoir, Open Book. “At that point, I couldn’t see the scale, so [my husband] Eric [Johnson] had to read the number to me.”
“He read the number with the impassive voice of a man who is in love with his wife. ‘This has to be broken,’ I said,” she continued. “Eric didn’t say anything. ‘Here, you just get on it,’ I said. He did.”
“The number was accurate. And less than mine,” she went on. “I weighed more than my husband, a six-foot-three former tight end in the NFL. I sat on the tub and burst into tears. My pregnancy with Birdie had been so difficult, with hospitalizations and incredible discomfort, and now this number suddenly wanted to push itself to the front and say, ‘I am what matters.'”
But that particular experience led her to realize she shouldn’t put so much emphasis on her weight and to start embracing all that her body had accomplished.
Talking to Entertainment Tonight, she got candid about how ditching the scale helps her stay more positive.
“We have a goal, right? But I say throw out the scale,” she shared. “I would use it like a measuring tape because the scale can literally mess our entire day up…I had Eric walk it to the trash can.”
She also opened up about dealing with others’ expectations about her body.
“I have to rid myself of measuring up to what weight I should be because I’ve had so many people tell me what weight I need to be and I think it’s really about just how you feel,” she explained.
Preach, girl!
