Portman brought up an old magazine cover that Simpson posed for back in 1999.
“I remember being a teenager, and there was Jessica Simpson on the cover of a magazine saying ‘I’m a virgin,’ while wearing a bikini, and I was confused,” Portman said. “Like, I don’t know what this is trying to tell me as a woman, as a girl.”
In 1999, Simpson was only 19-years-old. It’s hard to think that she had complete agency over what she wore on the cover of a magazine.
Simpson decided to respond to Portman’s comments and posted an open letter to her on Instagram.
Simpson took the time to carefully and respectfully call out Portman’s comments.
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“I have always embraced being a role model to all women to let them know that they can look however they want, wear whatever they want and have sex or not have sex with whomever they want,” Simpson wrote.