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, which is a pretty apt description of a frank and funny retrospective of her life both before and after she became one of the tabloid’s favourite targets. From her days as aprecursor on reality TV to her tortured relationships to her struggles with alcohol and self-medication, Simpson doesn’t skimp on details; sharing even the most difficult moments from her past—like the sexual abuse she endured as a child. And of course, there is also lots of grade-A gossip.
reboot, and made it all the way to the finals—along with fellow future pop stars Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. But it was the already brooding young Canadian in the group who caught her attention. “I liked Ryan Gosling very much. I decided he was definitely the cutest there,” she writes.
Simpson was the only one in the audition group that didn’t go on to be a Mouseketeer, but she did share “a nostalgic kiss” with Timberlake more than a decade later—after her divorce from Nick Lachey and before his relationship with Jessica Biel. Right after they smooched, JT pulled out his phone; when Jessica asked what he was doing, he explained that he was “texting Gosling.” The two had made a bet about who would kiss her first.
After her divorce from Lachey in 2006, Simpson moved into the first house she ever considered to be her own—a “starter mansion” in a gated community in Beverly Hills where she was surrounded by “high profile single women who were also in transition and finding themselves.” Her neighbours included Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. “It made the gate a paparazzi resting place,” she writes, “but inside we ladies of the Canyon were free.
In 2009, photos of Simpson performing at a chili cook-off in so-called “mom jeans” led to an international incident where the tabloids and even mainstream media began documenting her supposed weight gain with split screens of present-day Simpson beside photos of her from her 2005 film,. “It had to be a chili cook-off,” Simpson writes of the drama, which she calls “heartbreaking” but ultimately motivating.
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