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The #1 New York Times Bestseller

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Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as…

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I always love it when a celebrity doesn’t hold back in their autobiography—and I feel Jessica Simpson delivered on this. Readers get the juicy stories behind her romances with famous men such as John Mayer and Tony Romo, along with her struggles with the media’s unrealistic beauty standards. 

As someone who has followed Jessica Simpson over the years, I enjoyed hearing about her childhood path to fame, her failed audition for The Mickey Mouse Club, and the actual reality behind her reality television show Newlyweds. I listened to this as an audiobook read by Jessica herself, which is…

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