1/14/2008

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Starlet Eva Longoria's advice to Jessica Simpson? "Weather" the publicity of being an athlete's significant other.

Susie Kopecky

Eva Longoria has Jessica Simpson's best interests at heart. The Chicago Tribune reports that in an interview with People Magazine, actress Eva Longoria empathized with fellow actress Jessica Simpson. In the interview, Longoria had words of encouragement for Simpson, who is currently weathering publicity due to her involvement with a player on the Dallas Cowboys football team. Longoria is now married to a professional football player, and in the People interview had this advice for Jessica Simpson: "You have to weather that for a while, and once people get over it, they kind of get used to you." Some football fans have suggested that Simpson's new significant other has not performed as well since he began dating Simpson. Longoria went on to eschew that notion, explaining that when the professional football players are on the field, "Believe me, they are not thinking of us ... particularly Tony Romo, who has 10 linemen coming at him." Longoria is an actress and star on "Desperate Housewives."