Jessica Simpson didn’t have the easiest third pregnancy.
The star opened up about her daughter Birdie Mae Johnson’s birth via C-section on March 19, 2019, telling Bloomberg Businessweek how she was put on a breathing machine in hospital as she battled bronchitis.
“Her oxygen levels were dropping. I couldn’t breathe,” Simpson told the publication. “I was 260 pounds. She was a very big baby. We were like, ‘Just take her out.'”
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Simpson had been speaking to the publication about the not so ideal situation she was in when she took back control of her $1 billion fashion empire, which she’d launched in 2015.
They’d previously cut a deal with Sequential Brands Group Inc., who said they’d intended to expand the line into a “$2 billion to $3 billion operation,” but that didn’t happen.
Simpson explained how her hospitalization with Birdie marked the beginning of a two-year battle to get her namesake brand, of which her mom Tina is president, back.
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“We’ll borrow against our homes,” Simpson said she insisted at the time, adding: “Even if I have to go live in a little, tiny place in Ireland, I will.”
Simpson previously wrote about her hospital ordeal in her 2020 memoir Open Book.
“This was kind of the pregnancy from hell,” she shared, according to E! News. “When I wasn’t being hospitalized for bronchitis… I was breaking a toilet seat leaning back.”
Despite the challenges, the star insisted: “I have fallen more in love with my family watching them love our Birdie. She came at just the right time for us.”
Simpson posted at the time in 2019:
Simpson and husband Eric Johnson also share daughter Maxwell, 9, and son Ace, 8.
