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"PinterestFacebookYou&amp;#39;ve got to love Jessica Simpson&amp;#39;s resilience. A few days after she and Tony Romo, her boyfriend of two years, broke up&amp;#8212;he reportedly did it the night before her twenty-ninth birthday&amp;#8212;she sent a Twitter message to her fans: &amp;quot;Everyone needs to know that hope floats\u2026. Grab the strings and pull it back to you,&amp;quot; she wrote. Later that day, she sent another Tweet: &amp;quot;Falling asleep with my mom and the dogs. Please, Lord, give all of my beautiful fans, friends, enemies and family rest. Bring all of us peace.&amp;quot;\nThese aren&amp;#39;t the words of a woman on the verge&amp;#8212;in fact, she sounds forgiving, reflective, mature. When we interviewed Simpson, right before her breakup with Romo, she was candid about how happy she was to have Romo in her life, but she also spoke with the caution of a woman who knows that love can go bad. We asked her what was different about this relationship than others she&amp;#39;d had, and she said, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t regret anything I&amp;#39;ve gone through. All of them have defined me as a person. If anything, I believe they were preparing me for the one I&amp;#39;m going to spend the rest of my life with.&amp;quot; Asked if that might be Romo, Simpson said, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t know what the future holds, but I hope that my life, as it is now, doesn&amp;#39;t change. I&amp;#39;m very happy and comfortable&amp;#8212;it&amp;#39;s a great place to be in. If this article comes out and we&amp;#39;re not together, I&amp;#39;d still love him, and he&amp;#39;d still be a huge part of who I am today.&amp;quot;\nWho is that woman? Quite simply, a powerhouse. She&amp;#39;s on a plane twice a week to promote her country album, Do You Know; her new project, a reality show about the extremes women will go to in order to feel beautiful&amp;#8212;a subject close to the singer&amp;#39;s heart&amp;#8212;has been given the green light by VH1. And then there&amp;#39;s her hugely successful fashion line, the Jessica Simpson Collection. While other celebrities have found that the toe dip into the fashion world can be a tough one to survive, Simpson has spent the past four years becoming a bona fide fashion force; according to company sources, the business is projected to earn around $450 million by the end of this year. (That&amp;#39;s on par with major fashion labels like DKNY.) The collection has been doing so well that this month Simpson&amp;#39;s adding a luggage line, offering &amp;quot;every single thing you can think of that has to do with travel,&amp;quot; she says. Read on to see where Simpson&amp;#39;s head and heart are. (And while you&amp;#39;re at it, send her an encouraging Tweet!)\nGLAMOUR: Let&amp;#39;s talk about your fashion line, the Jessica Simpson Collection. Your company grossed something like $300 million last year! Do you ever sit back and think, I&amp;#39;m a mogul?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: It&amp;#39;s an incredible experience, creatively. I love to work with my mom; we&amp;#39;re very hands-on. I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, &amp;quot;I think this should be our color palette.&amp;quot; And I love that I can write off all my shopping! [Laughs.]\nGLAMOUR: Has it changed the way you shop?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Absolutely. I love to [check out] people&amp;#39;s personal style; I&amp;#39;ll go into a Macy&amp;#39;s in Dallas and watch what women pick up.\nGLAMOUR: How does Jessica Simpson sit in a Macy&amp;#39;s in Dallas and watch people shop? Aren&amp;#39;t you mobbed?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Yes, but even if they&amp;#39;re not fans of my music or movies, I know they&amp;#39;re fans of my shoes, and that&amp;#39;s all that matters to me. I&amp;#39;ve had people come up to me and say, &amp;quot;What would you put together for me?&amp;quot; And I&amp;#39;ve gone and picked out shoes and said, &amp;quot;These would be really cute with this belt and this handbag and this hat.&amp;quot;\nGLAMOUR: Imagine the story that person is taking home: &amp;quot;Jessica Simpson put this together for me.&amp;quot;\nJESSICA SIMPSON: I&amp;#39;m very passionate about it. The newest line we&amp;#39;re doing is luggage. We&amp;#39;re doing toiletry bags, carry-ons&amp;#8212;anything you can think of. I fly often, so I get a lot of use out of mine!\nGLAMOUR: Your clothing seems to accommodate lots of different body types. Did you set out to design it that way?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Whenever we have models come in, we use normal, everyday women. The bathing suit models have to really have boobs, because if you book a woman who doesn&amp;#39;t, the sizing will be off throughout the entire line. I&amp;#39;m excited about the intimates we make. They&amp;#39;re so comfortable and cute, and we make them for every size: We go up to 44DD. I&amp;#39;m big-busted\u2026. I can&amp;#39;t always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad. We make girls with bigger busts feel sexy under their clothes.\nGLAMOUR: Everyone at Glamour has been talking about the ring you&amp;#39;re wearing on our cover. It&amp;#39;s a rock!\nJESSICA SIMPSON: I bought my sister [Ashlee Simpson] and my mother these rings to celebrate Ashlee&amp;#39;s first Mother&amp;#39;s Day and to celebrate my mother as a grandmother. I had to buy one for myself because I felt left out and I am a godmother! Doesn&amp;#39;t that count? [Laughs.]\nGLAMOUR: I understand your new TV show is about what women all over the world do for beauty.\nJESSICA SIMPSON: I fell in love with the idea when it was presented to me. They said, &amp;quot;You were the first person who came to mind. We know the scrutiny you&amp;#39;ve been under, and we see the strong woman you&amp;#39;ve become.&amp;quot; I thought, Wow, there are people out there who aren&amp;#39;t thinking I&amp;#39;m on magazine covers just because my weight fluctuates.\nGLAMOUR: So on the show, you&amp;#39;ll travel around the world and observe what&amp;#39;s considered beautiful in different cultures and why?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Yes, whether wearing rings to elongate your neck in Thailand or having plastic surgery in Brazil, women all over the world go to [great] lengths to feel beautiful. It&amp;#39;s not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe. I&amp;#39;ve been through it myself, and understand the pressures. We&amp;#39;re all facing the same struggles together, whether you&amp;#39;re a celebrity or not.\nGLAMOUR: So you plan to draw on your own experiences?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Yes. When I was young, I would look at magazines and feel a lot of pressure. As a child of 12, I would write things in my journal like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m lying here and all I can think about is that my stomach is hanging over my underwear.&amp;quot; That disturbs me even today! I was always disconnected from myself; there was this idea of perfection I couldn&amp;#39;t ever get to. But all women struggle with insecurity, and we all have something we don&amp;#39;t like about ourselves.\nGLAMOUR: And you&amp;#39;ve dealt with a lot of unfair media criticism [about your weight] in past months. How have you been feeling about that?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: I absolutely, 100 percent do not agree with how the media has made everyone [body] obsessed. And they do have the power to do it. Celebrities aren&amp;#39;t perfect. It&amp;#39;s amazing to me how much thought is put into a woman&amp;#39;s figure on tabloid covers.\nGLAMOUR: What do you hope women will get out of watching a show like this?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful&amp;#8212;with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery&amp;#8212;in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they&amp;#39;re beautifully and wonderfully made. There is no &amp;quot;perfect&amp;quot; you. It will be interesting for women to see how self-obsessed we&amp;#39;ve become.\n__GLAMOUR:__In the last Glamour interview you did, you said Tony &amp;quot;helped reintroduce&amp;quot; you to yourself. How did that affect your self-confidence?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Tony never ever places judgment. You can just relax and feel beautiful. He&amp;#39;s just that type of person.\nGLAMOUR: Did your approach to relationships change after the divorce [from Nick Lachey]?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: It was hard to imagine I would ever walk down the aisle again. It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. Once you do that, you feel complete&amp;#8212;and that&amp;#39;s the only time you can truly fall in love again, and give yourself over completely to another person.\nGLAMOUR: Do you think you&amp;#39;ll get married again?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Definitely&amp;#8212;I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart. I don&amp;#39;t really ever talk about the divorce because it was a heart-wrenching thing to go through. It&amp;#39;s a very, very personal thing.\nGLAMOUR: But you do tend to be very open in interviews.\nJESSICA SIMPSON: To a fault, sometimes.\nGLAMOUR: After everything you went through after Newlyweds, what makes you want to talk about your personal life?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: I&amp;#39;m just a really open person\u2026but if I were to say I wasn&amp;#39;t a little bit jaded, that would be a lie. I am definitely on guard. People are judging your every move, and that&amp;#39;s why it [was] incredible to be in a nonjudgmental relationship [with Tony]. It has really helped me grow as a person.\nGLAMOUR: What about your career are you most proud of?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: I would say this last record [2008&amp;#39;s Do You Know]. I went to Nashville and was able to work with incredibly talented songwriters, and cowrote all but two of the songs. I figured life out through writing; it was a very honest album for me.\nGLAMOUR: Down the road, what kind of legacy would you like to leave behind?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: People were focusing on the [country] album not selling, and I was frustrated about that because it&amp;#39;s truly not about making money for me. Tony said, &amp;quot;Jessica, at the end of your life, the only thing that&amp;#39;s going to flash through your mind and heart is your husband, kids, family and the people you love. You&amp;#39;re not going to think, I wish I&amp;#39;d done this with my career. And I&amp;#39;m not going to remember how many touchdown passes I threw, or if I won a Super Bowl.&amp;quot; Music is the heart of who I am, and it&amp;#39;s the most personal thing that I do.\nGLAMOUR: So what&amp;#39;s next for you?\nJESSICA SIMPSON: Running the Jessica Simpson Collection: After my music, that is my passion. I&amp;#39;m never going to be a woman who doesn&amp;#39;t work. 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