Singer Jessica Simpson has signed a US$3 million deal with Weight Watchers.

According to the New York Post, the company will pay Simpson to lose her baby weight.

Simpson, 31, is currently pregnant with her first child. The father is fiancé Eric Johnson, a former NFL player.

Simpson’s weight has fluctuated over the years, a fact she has acknowledged and laughed off in interviews.

She has been in the public eye since she was 19 years old, and starred in the television show Newlyweds with then-husband Nich Lachey.

Early in her career, she was exercising constantly in order to fit into her Daisy Duke shorts for the movie The Dukes of Hazzard.

Years later, while performing at a country music concert, Simpson was photographed in high-waisted “mom” jeans. The response from the press was swift and cruel, with headlines calling her fat and bloated (at best).
Simpson did nothing.

“All kinds of women started coming up to me and saying what an example I was setting by not constantly dieting,” she told Lucky magazine.

“Everybody fluctuates, but I’m open about my weight and I’m still confident...I didn’t cry about it too much.”