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"That bump! Those outfits!\r\nJessica Simpson&amp;apos;s super-pregnant body has everyone talking -- on both ends of the political spectrum.\r\nChatting with her co-hosts on The View Tuesday, Joy Behar fretted that the 31-year-old star, expecting her first child imminently with fiance Eric Johnson, has packed on too many pounds, calling the mom-to-be &amp;quot;fat.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;Remember the the time that Jessica Simpson was criticized because she didn&amp;apos;t know the difference between chicken and tuna? That kind of thing is more fun to criticize than the fact that the girl is fat,&amp;quot; Behar, 69, opined.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Most women who are pregnant are not supposed to gain more than 25 pounds. She looks like she gained a lot more than that.&amp;quot;\r\nBehar&amp;apos;s View cohort Whoopi Goldberg was more sympathetic, admitting that she gained 90 pounds when she was pregnant with her own daughter. &amp;quot;I lost some of it. But some of it I didn&amp;apos;t lose. You do what you have to do.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nFormer Alaska governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, meanwhile, had a totally different take.\r\n&amp;quot;I would have wanted to punch [Jessica&amp;apos;s critics] in the neck,&amp;quot; mother of four Palin, 48, told Matt Lauer on TODAY Tuesday morning. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s none of anybody else&amp;apos;s business how much weight I would gain.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;This isn&amp;apos;t even an issue,&amp;quot; she added,  &amp;quot;Hollywood . .  is full of itty-bitty people, people [who are] unrealistically tiny.&amp;quot;\r\nLauer argued the attention paid to Fashion Star mentor Simpson&amp;apos;s current size is simply &amp;quot;about contrast&amp;quot; to Simpson&amp;apos;s former, super-svelte days wearing tiny Daisy Dukes and cowboy boots in 2005&amp;apos;s Dukes of Hazzard.\r\n&amp;quot;That was a different chapter of her life,&amp;quot; Palin said. &amp;quot;I bet you she was exercising five or six hours a day back in those Daisy Duke days.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBut Simpson reportedly already has a plan to fit back into those Daisy Dukes after her daughter is born this month: She reportedly signed a multi-million dollar deal with Weight Watchers to shed her baby weight.\r\nFor now, however, the star is reveling in her larger shape. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m like 170 pounds and I wanted to pose nude,&amp;quot; said Simpson star shortly after her nude ELLE cover was revealed. &amp;quot;I try to be like 110 pounds. It&amp;apos;s funny to be at your heaviest and feel the most confident. I just take such pride in being a mom! I just love my body more than ever now.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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