Open Book

Jessica Simpson has worn many labels in public: a minister's daughter from Texas, a pop singer, a reality television star, a fixture of the tabloids, a style figure, the head of a business empire, a wife and a mother. In Open Book, she steps out from behind those roles and tells her story in her own words.

The memoir is frank about the harder parts of her life, including addiction and abuse in her childhood, and about what it took to come through them. She credits her faith and the love of her family for carrying her to the other side.

The result is a portrait of a woman who spent years being defined by headlines and image, and who now sets out to show who she is underneath.