Jessica Simpson, first let me say congratulations! You look lovely pregnant, and good for you! I bet you'll make a perfectly acceptable mother who has a lot of help from trained professionals. We're all going to be waiting anxiously to find out if it's a boy or a girl, if you lose that pregnancy weight real quick, how you feel about breastfeeding, and if you pick the most ridiculous name on the planet.
But first, can we talk about your baby daddy?
Now, I'm not a fan of actually using the term "baby daddy," but that's just one reason I think you and whatshisname should tie the knot before this baby gets his or her driver's license. The word on the street is that you're actually postponing the wedding due to the pregnancy. Now why in the world would you do that? If you want to fit into a super fly dress, let me tell you you're going to be waiting a long time after that baby is born to do that. Also, have you seen all of the cute wedding dresses they make just for preggos like you?
Even more importantly, if you love this man enough to have a baby with him, don't you love him enough to get married? With your dating and marriage history, Jessica, I don't think this pregnancy was an accident.
I feel you, Jessica. I was also a pregnant bride. Just like me, when you realized this was the right man, you let your guard down. I mean, it's no coincidence that I'd been having sex for tens of years without getting pregnant, yet once I met the man I actually wanted to have children with, well, look at that -- knocked up! I can't help but feel the same thing could have happened to you. (Side note: Good job on not doing this with John Mayer.)
So waddle on down the aisle, Jess. We all want to see him put a ring on it before you welcome your new baby girl, boy, or other.
Don't you think Jessica Simpson should get married, already?
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Comments (22)
My significant other and I are expecting. We're not going to rush to the court house just because. We've planned on getting married sometime next year and we'll still get married some time next year (much to the chagrin of his extended family). This child will eventually know that his parents weren't married when he was conceived. A marriage liscense will not make this child anymore loved or wanted. Not having a marriage liscense won't make us any less of a family.
Well here the cow's opinion, as someone who is doing the exact same thing. I am due in April & will be married in June. I DO NOT WANT BIG FAT PREGGO PICTURE OF ME IN A WEDDING DRESS!! Vain yes I know but it's an important day & want to look & feel good, not to mention, I am spending all this money on a wedding I would like to be able to have a few drinks. Its nobody's business but hers & her hubby to Be's. You did & will do whats right for you & we cows will do what is right for us. WAITING until we are ready to do it. BABY or not.
My girls were born before we made it down the aisle - but that had a little more to do with DH's deployment than vanity. I would rather we did it before the girls got here. I am a fan of marriage-THEN-babies, but what someone else does in their household is not for me to judge.
Well, it's her choice, and I know couples who have done it both ways (married while pregnant and married after having their first baby) so I'm a bit ambivalent. I do lean more towards the side of "Why not get married before the baby comes?" but I keep it to myself.
I think it's fine not to rush down the aisle if I was in her situation also I wouldn't rush. I think she just wants to focus on her new baby rather than a wedding and the baby is obviously more important to her.