Jessica Simpson thanks fallen soldiers in emotional Memorial Day post

Jessica Simpson is paying her respects on Memorial Day. 

The 39-year-old posted a picture of herself and her eight-year-old daughter Maxwell baking on Monday, alongside a lengthy caption on Instagram praising the military and fallen soldiers. 

‘Today we celebrate our fallen Soldiers because they are the heroes that truly NEVER die,’ Jessica wrote. ‘May God bless those who love them and our country they selflessly protected with honor, loyalty, strength and perseverance.’ 

Jessica added: ‘I am thankful for the courage you have for others and feel overwhelming sense of gratitude for providing me the freedom to cherish this simple, blessed moment today baking with my family.’  

Jessica also has children Ace Knute, six, and one-year-old Birdie Mae, with her husband Eric Johnson. 

The former reality star recently released her autobiography Open Book which showed the public a different side to her, including revelations about her struggles with alcoholism. 

The memoir revealed that the singer was sexually abused as a child, which was one of the factors that led to an addiction to alcohol and pills. 

She also divulged that she started drinking at 7:30 in the morning on Halloween 2017, the day she realized she hit rock bottom. 

The mother of three revealed that she was ‘terrified of letting’ her kids see her in that state, adding that she is ‘ashamed to say’ that she didn’t know who got them in their costumes that night.

Jessica said that after the Halloween party wrapped up, she took an Ambien pill to help her sleep.

She wrote in her memoir of the day after: ‘I slept in, afraid to see them, afraid I had failed them. I hid until they left, then drank.’