THERE seems to be a shift happening amongst Hollywood’s heavyweights as celebrities leave Tinseltown in their droves.
Jessica Simpson is the latest star to turn her back on the limelight to prioritise her happiness.
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The singer-turned-fashion-designer, 43, has temporarily moved her family to Nashville, Tennessee.
She and her husband Eric Johnson, 44, have also put their LA mansion in Hidden Hills is on the market for $22 million.
“Being in Nashville, even my kids are like, ‘you laugh the whole time. You’re so happy’,” she told E! News.
“It’s because I’m not on guard,” she explained, referencing LA.
“It’s not about the celebrities – it’s really about the music and the heart and the conversation,” she said about Nashville.
Jessica was a true noughties icon but equally her title came with struggle.
She was consistently body-shamed and her weight was scrutinised as she was compared to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Jessica isn’t the only noughties star to be turning her back on Hollywood.
Mark Wahlberg, his wife Rhea Durham and their four children Ella, 20, Grace, 13, Michael, 17, and Brendan, 14 relocated to Las Vegas.
Speaking to Fox News Digital in April, the 52-year-old actor said he wanted to give his children “the chance to thrive”.
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“It just has the best of both worlds. I know a lot of people, when they think Las Vegas, they think the Strip,” he said.
“But just about 15, 20 minutes away, there’s a whole lot of other amazing areas that are all about family and community.”
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban bought a home in Nashville in 2007 just one year after they got married.
She previously told The Jess Cagle Interview: “That country music community is a very warm community. It’s very protective. Keith’s been a part of it for decades now. It’s his home, it’s our home.”
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively chose New York over LA in 2012.
They live with their four children James, eight, Inez, six, Betty, three and a baby whose name and gender has not been revealed in Pound Ridge.
Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila Alves also made the decision to move to his native Texas in 2012.
Camila previously told Fox News Digital: “For me, being from Brazil and then coming to Texas, I discovered a lot of similarities in terms of what families practice here, especially going to church on Sundays, and being very into the outdoors. It’s been a great transition.
‘We lived in Malibu for many years and having the paparazzi outside our door every day – every single day – when that becomes your normal, you don’t realize how much that’s actually affecting the things you do until you actually leave and get out of it.”
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