As she makes her highly anticipated return to the music scene, Jessica Simpson is sharing anecdotes about some of the major changes in her private life that took place during her hiatus.
In a Wednesday appearance on NBC’s “Today,” the singer and television personality told co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Willie Geist she hadn’t expected to get pregnant with son Ace, now 11, just four months after she and ex-husband Eric Johnson welcomed their first child, daughter Maxwell, now 13.
“My firstborn is now 13 years old,” Simpson explained. “But when I had her, I was like, ’You know what, I’m gonna focus on the Jessica Simpson Collection and I’m just gonna mom it.”
She went on to note: “I got pregnant four months later, not thinking you could get pregnant while breastfeeding… It’s like, wait, what? I’m the 1%? Of course, I’m the 1%.”
Studies have shown breastfeeding can be used as a temporary form of birth control, known as the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM), since women’s bodies naturally stop ovulating when they exclusively breastfeed their child.
