{"id":81,"date":"2013-03-07T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.wordpress.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:47:16","slug":"jessica-simpson-one-of-the-smartest-women-in-the-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"One of the Smartest Women in the Biz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surfing the net, reading pop news. I see quite a few stories on how Jessica Simpson let the sex of baby \u201cslip\u201d out. Let me share a fact with you friends.<\/p>\n

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Do you know who one of the smartest women in entertainment is \u2013 Jessica Simpson. **gasp, gasp**<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. I said it and I meant it.<\/p>\n

Let me back up to make sure everyone is on the same page\u2026Jessica came on the scene with an innocent, but mediocre pop sound. Comparable to the likes of a Mandy Moore in my mind. The music in terms of metrics wasn\u2019t bad, but it certainly wasn\u2019t along the lines of a Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera \u2013 her peers at the time. What brought Jessica to the forefront was her reality show with hubby Nick Lachey.<\/p>\n

At the time, these\u00a0two were pioneers in letting the world into their new marriage. (Today, these shows are a dime a dozen.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea of\u00a0giving two\u00a0B-artists a television show\u00a0turned out to be a goldmine. Now of course the intrusiveness was one of the factors that ruined their marriage, but goldmine nonetheless. Part of\u00a0the show’s gimmick was\u00a0presenting Jessica as a dumb blonde. The most infamous example comes from the first episode, when she’s looking at a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna, and asks\u00a0Nick “Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken… by the Sea’.”<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s no doubt that she said this on her own, unscripted. However, there\u2019s also no doubt in my mind that she quickly learned from ALL the negative press that those type of antics were going to be her meal-ticket.
\nWhile everyone thought Jessica was an idiot for the whole \u2018Chicken by the Sea\u2019 comment, this girl was laughing all the way to the bank.\u00a0 Trust me when I say the real idiots were the media who couldn’t see this for exactly what it was.<\/p>\n

She then launched a huge clothing line \u2013 the Jessica Simpson Collection – which I heart. In 2011, it\u00a0grossed close to $1 Billion (you read that right) in gross sales.<\/p>\n

Sidebar:\u00a0 True story, my mom detests Jessica. In the store one day she fell in love with a belt. Pranced around several full length mirrors with it on. Once she bought it, I said to her, \u201cYou know that\u2019s a Jessica Simpson belt right?\u201d The belt, $30. The look on my mom\u2019s face \u2026 priceless.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to now, both the reality show and her fashion success have led to countless endorsements and the fashion mentoring show, Fashion Star, which airs on NBC with Nicole Richie.<\/p>\n

Friends, this girl knows how to make lemonade from lemons. She saw how America was branding her and used it to her advantage. I\u2019m so prideful. I could never do that which is honestly what I consider a fault of mine. I\u2019m going to take some lessons from Jessica and stop fighting life. Sometimes when things don\u2019t work out how we would like, our first instinct is to try to “force\u201d it. But what if what we want isn\u2019t part of our destiny or path to success. What if there was a different path and those countless attempts to force a bad relationship or\u00a0horrible job was just us prolonging unhappiness. She\u2019s just another example of how success and\/ or happiness doesn\u2019t always come in the way we plan. Be open.<\/p>\n

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