Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about Jessica Simpson's seven evil exes so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read open book by Jessica Simpson joining us to discuss this very honest celebrity memoir is Buffalo wing enthusiast

Annie Cardi. Hello Annie. Hey thanks for having me. Yes welcome back to the podcast. It's always delightful to be here, especially to talk about the 2000s and pop music.

Always a good time. I do feel like, so Annie Cardi is, of course, returning guests and also author of Red.

And I feel like this is such a good encapsulation of so many of the themes of Red.

You know, we have like Christianity and music community.

And by the way, this book has some content warnings, as does Annie's book read, one of which is

sexual abuse. This guy also has substance use and abuse, some dieting body image stuff,

and then one content warning we're simply calling existing as a woman in the early aughts.

Don't recommend. Yikes. calling existing as a woman in the early aughts. Don't recommend.

Yikes.

Yeah.

Particularly a woman in the public eye, I suppose.

Oh.

I could barely have told you who Jessica Simpson was prior to, despite the fact that Jessica

Simpson got big in the very brief sliver of time that I was

actually watching MTV. I could have told you that she had like a show with Nicolet and she was

married to Nicolet She. I could have told you she did like pop music and maybe that she had like

a clothing line. Maybe. I listened to this book with Renata. We listened to

it on our road trip to Boonesboro together. And I would now walk into fire for this woman.

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