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Jessica Simpson recently worked with Billy Corgan on her new song "Who We Are" — so is there any chance that Simpson could become a member of Corgan's band the Smashing Pumpkins in the future?

"I don't know that I would be a good addition to the Smashing Pumpkins," she joked. "You gotta be a little bit more wild and crazy."

She admitted that perhaps her image isn't a right fit for Corgan and his group. "I mean, I have some crazy moments in my life or things about me, but I don't know that I can stand onstage and represent Billy the way he is," she added. "He does that fine on his own."

Despite their differences, Simpson regards Corgan as a "dear friend" and shared that he was a great help to her when she recorded her latest track. "I asked him to help out with arranging the song," she explained. "And he had some ideas to change it up a bit musically and some really cool arrangements and some great guitar things."

Simpson said that working with Corgan really taught her a lot. "To be able to sit with Billy [is a learning experience], and I always feel comfortable with him 'cause he is a close friend of mine," she said. "And I know he had my best interest at heart and it was great to be able to collaborate with him and to have him there in the studio."

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Jessica Simpson worked with a seemingly unlikely collaborator on her new track "Who We Are," the theme to her new docu-series, "The Price of Beauty": Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.

"Billy is a dear friend of mine and I asked him to help out with arranging the song," she told MTV News. "And he had some ideas to change it up a bit musically and some really cool arrangements and some great guitar things."

Simpson explained that working with Corgan, who came to the singer's defense after John Mayer made explicit comments about her in a recent Playboy interview, really taught her a lot. "To be able to sit with Billy [is a learning experience], and I always feel comfortable with him 'cause he is a close friend of mine," she said. "And I know he had my best interest at heart and it was great to be able to collaborate with him and to have him there in the studio."

The song embraces the show's theme about loving the person you are. "I ended up writing the song with some friends and it was about all these places that I'd gone to and the experience that I had," she said. "It's about the beauty of who we are and embracing that and knowing that we are all authentic — that every single person is different," she added. "But they all have something different about themselves that they need to discover."

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Not only is Jessica Simpson returning to the world of reality TV for her new docu-series, "The Price of Beauty," but she's also giving fans some new music, thanks to the show's theme song, "Who We Are." Simpson worked with Billy Corgan, Evan Bogart, Shari Short and Kerry Brown on the track and said it really embraces the show's theme about loving the person you are.

"I ended up writing the song with some friends and it was about all these places that I'd gone to and the experience that I had," she told MTV News about the track written specifically for the show. The tune reflects what she learned as she traveled the globe and observed that different cultures find different things beautiful. "It's about the beauty of who we are and embracing that and knowing that we are all authentic — that every single person is different," she added. "But they all have something different about themselves that they need to discover."

In the song, Simpson seems to answer critics with lines like "We're beautiful/ Our flaws and all/ They're beautiful to me/ It's who we are, who we are/ It's who we're meant to be."

Filming the show also gave Simpson the power to silence her critics and the voices in her head. "I view the world very differently," she said. "Everything's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be, and that's a really great place to be in. I know there's nothing that anybody can say about me that will take me to a very low place, because I am stronger."

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Morocco was just one of the stops on Jessica Simpson's world tour for her new VH1 show, "The Price of Beauty," on which she examines just what makes women beautiful. Although she traveled all over the world to places as distant from her native Texas as Uganda, Morocco was one of her favorite destinations. There, she says, she found the secret to beauty: meditation.

"I loved Morocco. I had a blast in Morocco," she explained to MTV News. "And these women were so beautiful to me. They basically just spoke to you through their eyes. And the culture, it was breathtaking [with] all the colors."

"It was very spiritual. All the prayers that they say ... they really just know themselves," she continued. "And I think that's important for a woman. I think that we all need to spend alone, quiet time in meditation and in those spiritual moments. You can discover so much about yourself."

She may have found some sense of peace in Morocco, but Simpson explained that through her travels, she also had to confront her fears, something she says has given her the ability to face anything. "I view the world very differently," she said. "Everything's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be, and that's a really great place to be in. I know there's nothing that anybody can say about me that will take me to a very low place, because I am stronger."

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She's been criticized by people for her appearance. She's had John Mayer talk about her private life to Playboy magazine. And while these things might have gotten under Jessica Simpson's skin in the past, the singer, who premiered her new VH1 docu-series "The Price of Beauty" on Monday night, said these days, she's up for any challenge.

"I definitely faced a lot of fears in every country that we went to, but that's what it was about," she told MTV News. "It was about going out there and seeing how far I can push myself and seeing what I can discover. Like, 'Who am I?' "

She added that given her new, fresh perspective on things, she doesn't care what anyone has to say these days. "I view the world very differently," she said. "Everything's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be, and that's a really great place to be in. I know there's nothing that anybody can say about me that will take me to a very low place, because I am stronger."

It was her experiences traveling all over the globe that gave Simpson strength. "The extremes [people] go to to feel beautiful, I think our society puts way, way too much pressure on a woman to feel beautiful," she said. "But the extremes that we saw in all these different countries were amazing. It was, like, outrageous.

"We went to Uganda. We were in fattening huts [where] the fatter you are, the more beautiful you are in this certain village we were in," she continued. "And so the men want their women to look like cows, because the cows are their prize possession. So the bride-to-be has to gain 90 pounds before she gets married. It does push its limits to what's healthy, what's not healthy. I've done all kinds of stuff on this trip."

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A lot has happened to Jessica Simpson since she bounced on the scene with her 1999 debut album Sweet Kisses. While recording music, starring in movies and designing her own brand of clothing, Simpson has also been the constant subject of tabloid rumors and public debate over her image. And before we watch her return to reality TV on Monday night (March 15) with her show, "The Price of Beauty," on VH1, MTV News decided to take a look back at the highs and lows of her career and personal life so far.

November 23, 1999: Simpson released her debut album, Sweet Kisses. Branded as a cleaner-cut pop star than cotemporaries Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, the 19-year-old didn't roll around in the sand or get her Lolita on in schoolgirl uniforms. Simpson became the pop-star-next-door thanks to her ballad, "I Wanna Love You Forever," followed by her duet with Nick Lachey "Where Are You."

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1999: She began dating Lachey after touring with his band, 98 Degrees. They broke up after two years, only to reunite in late 2001.

June 5, 2001: Simpson released sophomore album Irresistible, which spawned only two singles, including the title track.

October 26, 2002: Simpson married Lachey, maintaining her good-girl image by sharing that she saved her virginity until her wedding day.

Summer 2003: The pair were one of the first celebrity couples to make a reality show out of their everyday lives with "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica." Simpson became a household name after blithely pondering the nature of her Chicken of the Sea tuna. At the same time, Simpson finally sexed up her image for her album In This Skin, which featured a more grown-up sound than her previous efforts. She had hits with singles "With You" and "Take My Breath Away."

March 30, 2005: Simpson and Lachey wrapped up their show.

August 5, 2005: She put on her short shorts to play the role of Daisy Duke in the big-screen adaptation of "Dukes of Hazzard," alongside Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott.

December 2005: Simpson filed for divorce, which was finalized in late 2006. Her subsequent love life became a tabloid staple as she was linked to Dane Cook, Adam Levine, John Mayer and Tony Romo.

August 2006- May 2007: Simpson and Mayer dated on and off in a relationship closely chronicled by gossip pages. Mayer would later describe Simpson as "sexual napalm."

October 6, 2006: Simpson released the comedy "Employee of the Month." During filming, rumors persisted that she was dating co-star Dane Cook.

November 2007-July 2009: Simpson dated Dallas Cowboy Tony Romo for nearly two years. During their time together, she became known as a jinx for his team. It was eventually reported that Romo broke up with Simpson the night before her 29th birthday.

December 2007: Simpson's movie "Blonde Ambition," co-starring Luke Wilson, came out.

February 3, 2009: Simpson continued acting with the straight-to-DVD release of "Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous."

August 26, 2006: Simpson released her album A Public Affair, and projected a fun, carefree attitude in the Brett Ratner-directed video for the single of the same name, featuring her roller-skating with her girlfriends.

September 9, 2008: A Texas girl at heart, Simpson attempted to cross over into country music with Do You Know.

January- March 2009: While touring with Rascal Flatts, Simpson received backlash for her reported weight gain.

April 2009: Simpson parted ways with record label Sony Nashville.

Late 2009: Inspired by the criticism she received for her appearance, Simpson began filming her reality show, "The Price of Beauty."

February- March 2010: Simpson shared her reaction to Mayer's Playboy quotes on a number of talk shows. Most recently she told "The View" that she wouldn't be giving him her napalm ever again. Meanwhile, she wouldn't confirm or deny rumors she's dating Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.

March 15, 2010, at 10 p.m.: The premiere of "The Price of Beauty," in which Simpson travels the globe to find out what cultures outside of the U.S. consider beautiful. She has even recorded a new song for the show, with Corgan's help.

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Jessica Simpson hit the road last year to film her new VH1 show, "The Price of Beauty." At the time, the pop star had been inundated with negative press about her appearance and reported weight gain. And after an eye-opening journey around the world, Simpson said she learned what was truly beautiful about herself.

"I think that [the show] is such a great concept and I think it's going to be such an incredible show for women of all ages to watch. You definitely learn a lot about all these different cultures," she told MTV News about her show, premiering Monday (March 15) on VH1, adding that the filming was very personal for her.

"The reason why I wanted to go on this journey was to discover that, for myself, what was beautiful inside me and just to listen to these women talk and hear their stories," she explained. "And I had gone through a really hard time in the past year with people, just, they keep harping and me gaining weight, it made me so insecure that I really actually forgot who I was and I wanted to go on this journey to find myself again."

Now that she's back in the States, she said she can easily face any criticism or even be able to handle any line of questioning, even if it's about touchy subjects like John Mayer. "I definitely learned that I allow too many judgments of other people to seep in," she said. "Even when you think you kind of got it together and you think you can ignore it, you do still fall asleep with those voices in your head. There's no way to stop that. I think that going on this trip, all these places, I really just found an inner peace. I found something within myself that I didn't know was there."

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It seems like all anyone wants to talk to Jessica Simpson about is her love life. Is she still angry that John Mayer dished about their sex in Playboy? Is she dating Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan? And while she is now able to laugh off Mayer's comments about her, she neither confirmed nor denied that she's romantically involved with Corgan when she stopped by "The View" on Monday (March 15).

"Yes, my phone has been ringing. It's more embarrassing 'cause I'll walk into a restaurant or something and I'll notice more men are looking at me," she said of the response to Mayer's comments, which included calling her "sexual napalm." "And he'll never have this napalm again. Well, [I don't need to curse him out], that's why I do shows like this!"

She added that while they were dating, the only "stupid" comment he made to her was that they should break up. "He did apologize, but I mean, at this point it doesn't really matter," she said. "I mean, I only thought he was stupid for breaking up with me."

So with her romance with Mayer behind her, is she dating Corgan, who helped her on the track for her new VH1 show, "The Price of Beauty"? "I can't meet anybody! I'm marrying them the next week," she said. "Billy is one of my dear friends and he did help arrange the song. He understands my heart and knew what I wanted to do."

Simpson also addressed her weight — "I don't want to be [very thin] ... it's not worth it." — as well as her new TV show, she also looked to the future, which she hopes will include kids. "I can't wait to have kids. Well, honestly, if I don't have kids by the time I'm 40, my best friend [and hairstylist] Ken Paves and I are going to have children," she said. "Oh no! I'm not pregnant!"

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Billy Corgan may have admitted his love for Jessica Simpson to Rolling Stone, but it seems he's also dishing to the magazine his distaste for John Mayer after Mayer's controversial remarks about Simpson in Playboy magazine.

"He's trying to destroy his career," Corgan told Rolling Stone. "Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction ... some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he's trying to blow it up."

Corgan further said of his fellow musician, "Certainly a talented guy, but empathetically, standing on the sidelines, it's hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground. Speaking as somebody who's done it."

In the same interview, the Smashing Pumpkins founder revealed that he's got feelings for Simpson. The two recently collaborated on the theme song for Simpson's new VH1 reality show, "The Price of Beauty."

"If I go, 'Oh, we're just friends,' then it's like, 'Did they go out, did he dump her or she dump him, what happened?' It has nothing to do with any of that. Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that," he told the magazine about the nature of his relationship with Simpson. "My goal in life is to love whoever I think is worth loving, and I think if people knew her like I knew her, they would love her like I do. It's really simple."

Simpson seems to be taking this all in stride. She laughed off Mayer's comments when she appeared on "Late Night With David Letterman" on Wednesday night.

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