Jessica Simpson is at last silencing decade-old rumours surrounding her beauty habits.
In a recent interview with ELLE magazine, the 2000s songstress was asked about reports that have swirled since 2014, claiming she spent an average of $1000 per week on tanning services in the height of her career.
The wild rumour first kicked off following a TVNZ article that claimed, per a source, that Simpson had a “Million dollar beauty routine” she adhered to “back in the day.”
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In response to questions surrounding these rumours, the singer was quick to put them to bed once and for all.
“No, $1000? Gosh. I’d rather have lain out in the sun,” she said.
The New Zealand media outlet reported that on top of the $1000 spent per week on being bronzed, Simpson also splashed out on $1000 eyelash extensions, bust enhancements and a $230,000 round-the-clock hairstyling team at her beck and call.
The star speculated over where these rumours may have first emerged, saying the demanding beauty standards while on-set filming movie Dukes of Hazzard could have been the culprit.
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“I had to be tan and that was a four-month shoot where I was damn near naked the whole time,” she told ELLE.
“The only way to be confident then when shooting,” she added, “was to spray it, and do body makeup. But I also didn’t want it to be too orange, so I had to have a base tan. It was all thought out.”
While Simpson admits to being a sucker for a good tan, her awareness surrounding sun health has driven her to take a different approach.
“Nowadays, I spray my kids [with sunscreen] when they go down to the park and am always putting it on myself too … I definitely turned it around not just because of ageing, but because there are lots of hazards to it.”
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These comments come months after Simpson’s music comeback and high-profile split from former NFL star Eric Johnson.
Speaking about her experience as a newly-single woman for the first time in 10 years, she revealed she has been “having fun”.
“When you’re newly separated… I feel like younger guys kinda like the confidence of an older women, I’m discovering,” she added, while on the red carpet of All’s Fair.
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