Poor old Jessica Simpson -- she's had a rough time of it in the past few years, and writing this sentence for our column encapsulated it pretty starkly for us:
"If you'd told us [years ago] that in 2009 Jessica would be the Simpson crooning country songs at chili cook-offs while Ashlee tootled off to work on the new Melrose Place, we'd have smiled politely and wished you success in rebounding from your apparent alien abduction."So not only are we rooting for Jessica's new rumored reality-TV venture to succeed -- or at least, you know, not die out or flop tragically -- but we don't even think it's such an awful idea for her. Why? The answers lie in the rest of the column.
