Jessica Simpson Reveals She’s ‘About to Start’ Next Memoir: ‘I’m Always Writing’

Jessica Simpson is still an open book — and she’s ready to share more of her story.

“I’m about to start another one. I’m always writing,” Simpson, 45, told Elle in a profile published Thursday, April 2. “It’s the only way that I can confront and be honest with myself, if I want to live my life right and understand it.”

She added, “I journal my way through a lot of thoughts and stuff. It’s a relationship that I have with myself that I don’t mind sharing with the world.”

Simpson published her first memoir, Open Book, in 2020, where she chronicled her childhood, struggles with body dysmorphia and sobriety, as well as recounting her past relationships. Several chapters were even dedicated to Simpson’s marriage to Nick Lachey from 2002 to 2006.

“I was 22, and I had just pledged my life and destiny [to] this man. And I don’t regret it,” she wrote of their wedding night. “Nick was meant to be my husband. No one else was supposed to have my virginity.”

Simpson further revealed what it was like filming MTV’s Newlyweds with Lachey, now 52, from 2003 to 2005.

“I wanted my marriage to look perfect. I didn’t mind if I looked dumb, but I wanted people to see the fairy tale in Nick. In us,” Simpson wrote in the book. “I had the Instagram-girlfriend syndrome before it was a thing, and I wanted the world to see my husband in the best light because I was hopelessly in love with him.”