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Jessica Simpson to Pursue Post-Divorce Higher Education ‘Dream’: ‘Put It Off Long Enough’

With her marriage to Eric Johnson over, Jessica Simpson is pursuing a long-held dream of going back to school, a source exclusively tells Life and Style.

Jessica Simpson is reinventing herself post-divorce and a source exclusively tells Life & Style she’s serious about going back to school, in part to prove to the world — and ex husband Eric Johnson — that she’s far more than the “dumb blonde” stereotype that’s been stuck to her since the early 2000s. Throughout their 10 years together, they welcomed three children — Maxwell, 12, Ace, 11, and Birdie, 5 — and the source notes Jessica is now focused on creating an effective and stress-free coparenting system with her ex and pursuing a list of other ambitions, at the top of which is education. While the Dukes of Hazzard star rose to fame as a singer in the late 1990s, with hits like “Irresistible” and “I Wanna Love You Forever,” her breakthrough into mainstream pop culture came in the early 2000s thanks to the reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, which often portrayed her as a ditsy blonde, a label she wouldn’t help shed with her infamous “Chicken of the Sea” mix up, where she questioned whether a can of tuna with the marketing slogan on it was actually chicken.

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