It’s been a long weight-loss road for Jessica Simpson, but the mum of two couldn’t be happier with her new body!
Showing off her slimmed-down figure in a new Weight Watchers ad, the 33-year-old yummy mummy says she’s proud of her new body, but isn’t about to deny how hard it was to get.
“I was so insecure – I couldn’t believe what I weighed,” she told Good Morning America of her weight gain during her first pregnancy.
“I don’t think I ever expected myself to see the numbers I’ve seen on the scale.”
The fashion designer lost 22kg after the birth of her first child, daughter Maxwell, in May 2012. Five months later she got the surprise news that she was pregnant with her second child, son Ace, now seven months.
While she says she isn’t the type to bounce back to her old body straight away, she’s proud of the body she has worked hard for and says she’s proof that everyday mums can do it, too.
She added that women shouldn’t be ashamed of pregnancy weight gain.
“You’re creating a life, and honestly it’s not easy,” she said.
“It’s a really hard thing to go through. And you deserve to eat your ice-cream, you deserve to have your pancakes. Do whatever you want to do and then afterwards just know that you have to work really hard.”
She says the secret to her weight loss is the support and motivation from her fiance Eric Johnson and her healthy meal plan.
“For breakfast I’m an oatmeal girl,” she said. “Lunch – I do like bread, so I’ll have a sandwich or something. But for dinner I try and keep it super-clean.” And while she says her favourite job is being a mum, the former singer says she would love to go back to her roots.
“I want to sing again,” she said. “I want my daughter to see me on stage. My fiance has never even watched me perform, which is crazy. It’s my passion, that is my love – that is everything that I am.”
