{"id":118728,"date":"2024-11-04T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/04\/jessica-simpson-marks-7-years-sober-from-alcohol-walked-myself-into-the-light\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T21:03:33","slug":"jessica-simpson-marks-7-years-sober-from-alcohol-walked-myself-into-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/04\/jessica-simpson-marks-7-years-sober-from-alcohol-walked-myself-into-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Simpson marks 7 years sober from alcohol: &#8216;Walked myself into the light&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-04\/Getty_JessicaSimpson_110424.png\" alt><figcaption>Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images for W Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jessica Simpson<\/strong> is celebrating seven years of sobriety from alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old fashion designer shared a black-and-white selfie to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DB2damAPeVH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=0c159f06-322c-4c22-9a6b-cbd36d6ca5ab\">Instagram<\/a> over the weekend to mark the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;7yrs ago today I walked myself into the light of being alcohol free,&#8221; she wrote in the reflective post.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson&#8217;s followers took to the comments to share their congratulations for her accomplishment, while some even shared how her openness about her journey of quitting alcohol has helped them.<\/p>\n<p>The singer and actress also got love from some celebrity friends, including <strong>John Stamos<\/strong> and <strong>Carnie Wilson<\/strong>. &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; Stamos wrote, while Wilson added, &#8220;Wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simpson opened up in her 2020 memoir, <em>Open Book<\/em>, about using alcohol to self-medicate and dull the pain of her being sexually abused when she was a child, as well as to cope with the stress of fame.<\/p>\n<p>The moment Simpson decided to give up alcohol and go sober, she said at the time, came after a Halloween party at her house in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images for W Magazine Jessica Simpson is celebrating seven years of sobriety from alcohol. The 44-year-old fashion designer shared a black-and-white selfie to Instagram over the weekend to mark the milestone. &#8220;7yrs ago today I walked myself into the light of being alcohol free,&#8221; she wrote in the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/04\/jessica-simpson-marks-7-years-sober-from-alcohol-walked-myself-into-the-light\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}