Jessica Simpson Reshares 'Unrecognizable' Photo To Honor 6 Years Of Sobriety

LOADING ERROR LOADING As she prepares for her long-awaited return to music, Jessica Simpson is taking time to acknowledge a deeply personal milestone. Last week, the singer and television personality quietly commemorated her sixth year of sobriety by again sharing a 2017 photo of herself that she now deems “unrecognizable.” “6 years ago,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories alongside the image, as seen here. Simpson first posted the photo to her Instagram account in 2021, noting that it captured the “very moment” she decided to “to take back my light, show victory over my internal battle of self respect, and brave this world with piercing clarity.” “Personally, to do this I needed to stop drinking alcohol because it kept my mind and heart circling in the same direction and quite honestly I was exhausted,” she wrote at the time. I wanted to live as a leader does and break cycles to advance forward ― never looking back with regret and remorse over any choice I have made and would make for the rest of my time here within this beautiful world.” Watch an “Entertainment Tonight” report on Jessica Simpson’s sixth sober anniversary below: After acknowledging the social stigma that still exists “around the word alcoholism or the label of an alcoholic,” Simpson added, “The drinking wasn’t the issue. I am free.” Simpson spoke at length about her experiences with drug and alcohol addiction in her 2020 memoir, “Open Book.” Her “rock bottom” moment, she said, was waking up on Halloween in 2017 and having her first drink at 7 a.m. By evening, she was too drunk to take her children trick-or-treating.