{"id":1416050,"date":"2020-02-05T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1119753"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:30:11","slug":"how-jessica-simpsons-husband-eric-johnson-stands-out-from-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/music-news\/how-jessica-simpsons-husband-eric-johnson-stands-out-from-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jessica Simpson&#8217;s Husband Eric Johnson Stands Out From the Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.228070175439\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2016128\/rs_634x923-160228135352-634-jessica-simpson-eric-johnson-kiss.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jessica Simpson, Eric Johnson\" alt=\"Jessica Simpson, Eric Johnson\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Amy Graves\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.20600162206\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jessica_simpson\">Jessica Simpson<\/a><\/strong> has had her share of heartache.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The longtime star and newly published author has revisited the heartbreaks of her life in her memoir,&nbsp;<em>Open Book<\/em>, including the insecurities she faced during her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1118783\/jessica-simpson-recalls-getting-back-together-with-john-mayer-close-to-9-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tumultuous on-and-off relationship<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_mayer\">John Mayer<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp; &#8220;I constantly worried that I wasn&#8217;t smart enough for him,&#8221; she shared in her book, noting she would have someone check the spelling and grammar of her texts to him. &#8220;He was so clever and treated conversation like a friendly competition that he had to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was constantly wanting to be&nbsp;what he wanted me to be, and he wanted me to be myself, but in a certain way, but I wanted to be myself in that way because when I love people, I always want it to last,&#8221; she explained&nbsp;on <em>The View&nbsp;<\/em>Wednesday. &#8220;I want it to be forever. I want to marry you. I&#8217;ll ask you on the first date. I am that girl. But I truly, you know, John, it was a very unhealthy and manipulative relationship for me and it was painful. I lost a lot of my identity just trying to be present in conversation and hang in there with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those days are behind her as Simpson has since married former pro football player&nbsp;<strong>Eric Johnson<\/strong>, with whom she&#8217;s welcomed three children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/211232\/jessica-simpson-and-footballer-beau-engaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been with since 2010<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>As the star explained to the&nbsp;<em>View&nbsp;<\/em>co-hosts, he loves her flaws and all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20\">\n<p>&#8220;Eric really just embraces with no judgment the woman that I am,&#8221; Simpson said. &#8220;You know, with my flaws, I mean, that&#8217;s some of his favorite parts about me, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;To be in that kind of relationship where you just feel secure and you feel like you&#8217;re yourself, then you can, you know, then you can raise children and then you can be an amazing couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, as she topped things off, &#8220;He&#8217;s my sexual shaman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m. and don&#8217;t miss our <i>2020 Oscars: E&#8217;s Inside Guide<\/i> special Thursday, Feb. 6 at 10:30 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119753\/how-jessica-simpson-s-husband-eric-johnson-stands-out-from-the-rest?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Graves\/WireImage Jessica Simpson has had her share of heartache.&nbsp; The longtime star and newly published author has revisited the heartbreaks of her life in her memoir,&nbsp;Open Book, including the insecurities she faced during her tumultuous on-and-off relationship&nbsp;with&nbsp;John Mayer.&nbsp; &#8220;I constantly worried that I wasn&#8217;t smart enough for him,&#8221; she shared in her book, noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1416050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 11:58:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}