Ouuuuuuuuuuuch!

An except from Glamour’s interview with cover girl Jessica Simpson, on newsstands now:

“What he’s done for me is irreplaceable,” Simpson says about her newfound confidence. Wearing a printed, off-the-shoulder peasant dress and stacked heels, she settles into a booth at her favorite Dallas bistro. (Romo is off playing golf but shows up at the end of the interview to greet her with a big purple and green stuffed animal. Jessica is clearly delighted.) It’s obvious that the down-home comforts of Dallas are doing her right: Simpson is in control, adorable and ready to move on. Fortified by a glass of chardonnay, she sets the record straight on coping with the tabloids, her acting career and, of course, her new, happy life with Romo. “It feels like forever,” she says about the months they’ve been together. “I love this guy. Can you feel it?” You can’t help but feel it …

[Says Jessica:] “I’m not going to lie and say that I don’t want to see Tony and me in the pictures. It is good airplane reading if you throw it away when you get off; I’m good at that. I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing. That’s interesting to me. Do I read the stories? Not really. I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh … I wouldn’t say that. I think it’s ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he’s an athlete. I was always, An athlete? Heck no. Because it reminded me of being married. This article could come out and Tony and I could be broken up, but he still deserves all the accolades for bringing me back to who I am.”

The whole article’s worth a read. As much as I want to hate Jessica Simpson, whenever I read or see an interview with her, I end up falling in love with her. She’s endured so much hell in the public eye with what is really a ton of grace and honesty.