Jessica Simpson
Simpson in 2004, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Jessica Ann Simpson
Place of Birth: Abilene, Taylor, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 10, 1980
Ethnicity: English, with some Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, distant German and Swiss-German
Jessica Simpson is an American singer, songwriter, actress, television personality, and fashion designer. She has starred in the films The Dukes of Hazzard, Employee of the Month, and Blonde Ambition.
Jessica is the daughter of Tina and Joseph Truett “Joe” Simpson, a psychologist and Baptist youth minister. Her sister is singer and actress Ashlee Simpson. Jessica is married to professional football player Eric Johnson, with whom she has three children.
Some online sources state that Jessica has Native American ancestry, specifically “1/16th Native American.” It is not clear if this Native American ancestry has been verified/documented. No Native American ancestry appears in publicly available family trees of Jessica Simpson, and all sixteen of Jessica’s great-great-grandparents were caucasian.
Jessica’s paternal grandfather was Curtis Thaddeus Simpson (the son of Thaddeus Pickett Simpson and Bertie/Bertha Belle/Bell Curtis). Jessica’s grandfather Curtis was born in Texas, near Graham, Young. Jessica’s great-grandfather Thaddeus was the son of Robert H. Simpson and Elizabeth/Lizzie J. Blackstone. Bertie was the daughter of Vernantus C. “Bud” Curtis and Tulula “Lue”/Lou Rhyne/Rhine.
Jessica’s paternal grandmother was Joyce Alice Adams (the daughter of Grady Ward Adams and Sallie Maud/Maude Roberts). Joyce was born in Kaufman, Kaufman Co., Texas. Grady was the son of Silas S. Adams and Frances Elizabeth “Fannie” Valentine. Sallie was the daughter of Daniel A. Roberts and Sallie/Sally Tyner.
Jessica’s maternal grandfather was Acy Edward Drew, Jr. (the son of Acy Edward Drew and Thelma Dee McClendon). Jessica’s grandfather Acy was born in Houston, Harris, Texas. Acy was the son of Stonewall Drew and Emma Cliff. Thelma was the daughter of Wade Hampton McClendon and Lou/Lue Ella Jackson.
Jessica’s maternal grandmother is Dorothy Jane Hyles (the daughter of Herbert Ben Hyles and Bertha Dee Teeters). Dorothy was born in Texas. Herbert was the son of William Jasper Hyles and Luella/Louella/Lou Ella/Lula Hughes. Bertha was the daughter of Andrew Garrett Teeters and Sallie/Sally Massey.
Sources: Genealogies of Jessica Simpson – http://famouskin.com
https://www.geni.com
correction; her eyes are hazel (light brown) and her hair is dark brown (brunette) (dyed blonde) I think it should be listed
correction; her eyes are forest green (green w brown)
hahaha you british people are so hilarious you try so hard to make youre country northern eurpean look a likee but the majority of you have brown hair and brown eyes want some examples okay…russel brand,john lennon,george harrison,colin firth,colin farrell,george best(bot irish wich is the same thing)ahaha it seems the world know is knowing the truth you insignificant nordic-mediterranean island ahaha
And? Having brown eyed people would make Britain inferior to you or what?
PD: I am not British.
Seriously what is it with these “oh she has brown eyes, she has Native blood”….You could say Italian or Jewish roots, but Native is just pushing it…
Can’t full blooded white people not have brown eyes? Brown eyes are so common you know, they’re everywhere and can be found anywhere. Doesn’t mean that whoever has them they’re mixed. *eyes roll*
Full blooded Germans and Scots can have brown eyes…!
You are right. More people in the world have brown eyes than any other color. Blue is extremely rare and green is even more rare. And brown eyes are found in some of the fairest people. A lot of redheads have brown eyes actually. I don’t understand these comments either. So ignorant
@Follers
I’m curious about something.I was looking at Judy Reyes IMDB Trivia page,and she’s quoted for saying,she’s surprised that Jessica is a Latina:
Personal Quotes section
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0721332/bio
What are the odds of there being,any truth to that?I mean Latinos/Latina have no fixed look,so what do you think?
imdb.com is becoming more and more not reliable as site
imdb.com says Jessica is a distant relative of Al Gore, even though she’s a registered Republican who voted for Bush and McCain. Also Jessica mother is reported to be of English and “Native American” descent
“I don’t know if I’m more surprised by this [ALMA award] or the fact that Jessica Simpson is Latina”
Perhaps it was a joke. If you think about it that way, it makes sense.
Jessica Simpson has no documented Hispanic ancestry, nor any documented Native American ancestry. Her mother’s (and dad’s) family is listed as “White” going back many generations.
Some of my posts below this one (see the ones after “Ryan” on this page) have a lot of her genealogy.
Hey there Follers, I know I’m annoying, but could you do a research on Phoebe Tonkin? I really wanna know her ethnicity, in advance thanks :)
Australians are hard to find the genealogy of, because most records that are available are from many years ago. Tonkin is an English surname, though, and her parents’ names are Jannyfer and Nicholas.
White Australians of 3+ generations (usually of british/anglo ancestry) are almost always ignorant to their heritage and prefer to identify themselves as ‘just australian’ as they seem to think white skin with light hair and light eyes is stereotypically an ‘australian’ look without recognising the fact that the white look and their heritage is European and that a true ‘australian’ is an aboriginal/indigenous person. That would be the main reason why finding out a white Australian person’s heritage is difficult, however most of Australia is pure bred british & irish descent not like America which has many people of dutch, german, french, Norwegian etc descent. So it’s easy to assume a white Australian person who doesn’t recognise their ethnicity is of anglo descent. There are also many white Australians or Italian, greek, Serbian, Croatian, Lebanese etc descent however they’re usually of less generations Australian and are more proud of their ethnicity and more inclined to state it.
source: I’m a born and bred white Australian from Sydney of southern European descent.
If I post the source my comment will not go through
I provided Angelina Jolie’s Native source HOURS ago and that comment is still in moderation.
OOPS sorry
comment above meant as a reply
This is the most respectable link I can find now.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2009/08/04/jessica-simpson-part-indian-part-mysterious-77394
So even though she claims to be Native and her REP sent out a letter it doesn’t count cause it doesn’t show in her recent history? OK then.
I thought this site was about Ethnicity, not about RECENT mixed ethnicity.
I disagree. Sure it took this incident for her to claim her Native side, but that doesn’t mean she’s lying. Based on her look I believe she’s 1/16th Native American.
1/16th Native American on her mother’s side
CORRECTION
You’re not the admin of this site it doesn’t matter what you think.
The Finnish do not look like her. Where do you get she is 15/16th Finnish? That’s random and laughable.
Your logic is flawed. She claiming to be pat Native is not farfetched.
Admin are going to correct the info or not?
haha I don’t think so
but it is a nice photo one of the very few
No! Follors is racist and works for this site. They have a hidden agenda. America is the whitest of the white and everyone in Europe including Scandinavians are mixed with Asian. And every Latin-American is mixed with Black. Funny when America is Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural and always have been.
Your comments reflect that. Your poor choice of photos reflect that. Hell, this entire site reflects that. A racist should not be in charge of running an Ethnicity site.
Yes, he seems slightly Xenophobic.
“Olivia Wilde is “1/64th Jewish” and 0% Asian, so I dunno.”
His comment on Yvonne implying she has Asian when clearly is not the case and even so it prob only less then 3%. I find Jessica Simpson quite more exotic than Yvonne to be honest.
To follors
No but I found the name of Angelina Jolie’s Native ancestor. Waiting on that for many hours now.
Most of them are bad to pis# poor. It does say something about this site. Whatever that something is I rather not know.
“However, the page already mentions her Huron ancestor (which make her 1/1024 Huron).”
Thanks, I see it now.
@Lotus
LOL I’m beginning to think you were right.
They are even denying actual DNA testing.
YES Europeans are ASIAN and America is our great WHITE Master IMAOOOOO!!!!
Wait a minute… I’m American, sorry, however I’m a decent human being and was brought up knowing right from wrong. This site promotes ignorance, racism, hate and lies. No clue why is still up and running.
I’m beginning to think the same
Too many trolls pretending to be this and that
Spewing hate and lies
I do agree that follers is a troll and has multiple personalities. I do not trust anything that she/he says.
Really? Name calling? Very mature.