Jessica Simpson is soaking up the last days of summer after enjoying a lavish vacation..
“Take me back to Turks and Caicos,” Simpson, 46, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, August 15, sharing a handful of photos from her getaway to the U.K. territory. “Thank you @lacurevillas and @pavilionluxuryvillas for an unforgettable stay. We’ll be seein’ y’all again very very soon.
The singer sported a tiny polka-dot bikini in one pic as she caught some rays while lounging on a striped towel. She accessorized her ensemble with a delicate chain necklace and a pair of tortoise-shell sunglasses.
In another snap, Simpson covered her two-piece with a black sundress and multicolored shawl.
Simpson has long embraced her curves, claiming that she was constantly told to lose weight in order to be successful.
“When I first started signing, I was, to everyone at the record label, supposed to be this pop star,” she recalled during a June concert. “There was Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera … and I had to follow in their footsteps. I really thought I was signed just because of my voice, then it was like, ‘OK, you need to lose 15 pounds.’”
Simpson continued, “To tell a 17-year-old that is a lot. [On my] second record, I [was told] needed to have a six-pack, which was definitely not going to happen. I’m just not built that way, you know? There were just all these things that I had to be to be ‘Jessica Simpson’ or the version of Jessica Simpson they believed I should be to be successful. I always felt like a failure, like, I was never good enough.”
After struggling with her weight for many years, the fashion designer has since learned to make peace with her body.
“I don’t really look at it as, like, a weight loss journey. I think it’s a journey of empowerment and self-love and acceptance,” Simpson exclusively told Us in 2022. “It’s one of those things [where] it’s like, we all want what we can’t have. We all want the body type that we aren’t [and] that we can’t change.”
The pop star added at the time, “It’s about accepting and loving ourselves for who we are. For me, I have done that at every size [and] I just feel every woman should be celebrated.”
That same month, Simpson revealed via Instagram that she had gained and lost 100 pounds three times after having kids. (Simpson shares three children with estranged husband Eric Johnson.)
“It’s about setting small goals for yourself, and then eventually, the impossible is possible,” Simpson told Us in 2022 of her weight loss journey. “I was so proud of myself and I was proud of the resilience no matter what people say. … ‘When you work really hard to look and feel the way that you do in a very happy moment, especially with your children, it is very empowering [to get positive feedback], and it made me so emotional.”
