Singer and actress Jessica Simpson shocked the Christian community when she declared she barely goes to church and reads the bible this days.

Jessica, 25, started singing at the age of twelve as a part of her Baptist church choir. She was discovered singing at a church camp by a head of a small contemporary Christian record label and recorded an album over the next three years, but the label went out of business before the album could be released.

She dropped out her senior year in order to tour and promote her demo album, which was funded by her grandmother, Joyce.

But her current Hollywood lifestyle has little in common with her Southern Baptist childhood.

She says, "Me and my family got out of that and came to LA. To see all forms of meditation and prayer made me less judgemental.".