When asked about Jessica Simpson’s memoir this week, her ex-husband Nick Lachey said “it was a long time ago and we've all moved on.” But all the juicy details in the book will bring you right back to the Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica era.
Simpson, raised a minister’s daughter, was infamously a virgin when she married Lachey in 2002. She was 22 to his 28 and while she loved him when she said “I do,” she wrote in Open Book, out today, that it was part of the reason behind them getting married: “I had joined a long line of virgins in my family who said yes to forever for that one experience,” she wrote.
Simpson’s dad and manager, Joe Simpson, tried to talk her out of walking down the aisle minutes before the couple’s wedding — and maybe she should have listened. Because almost immediately after getting hitched, things fell apart — partially because her dad sold a show to MTV around their married life that they hoped would be as successful as The Osbournes, which premiered a year before. So not only was their marital home filled to the max with cameras — living not a lot of intimate moments — but she was also young, her star was on the rise and she was working a non-stop work schedule to help pay their bills.
