Jessica Simpson makes (pretty) lemonade

Jessica Simpson has a nice voice and all, but her greatest talent might be making the best of her situation, whatever it is at any given moment. She was a nearly-forgotten relic of the teen-pop boom settling into a domestic life with a new hubby when she made a reality show about it -- and became a bigger star than ever. She starred in a silly Dukes of Hazzard remake but got glowing press for her killer Daisy Duke body. She flamed out on the pop charts only to take on the country ones. Now she's doing it again, making silver linings of that black cloud of weight controversy hanging over the early half of her 2009: