Self-Esteem: (Noun) Confidence in one's own worth or abilities; self-respect.

Ashlee Simpson is finally opening up about her totally fucking obvious plastic surgery in the latest issue of Us Weekly.

"[Plastic surgery] is something that everybody should think about for a really long time," she tells Us. "Once you know it's something you really feel comfortable with, then to each their own."

Still, the singer downplays her own transformation. "I was never really unhappy with how I looked, [and] I don't think I am more beautiful than I was [before]," Simpson tells Us. "I just see the same old goofy girl I see every day."

Well that's cool, then. If she was never unhappy with herself, than the surgery was clearly responsible and warranted. Just so long as she didn't suck the fat out of her cheeks and lop off half her nose for superficial reasons, or because she cried big fat tears into the mirror every night thinking she looked like a Fraggle. It takes a virtual champion of self-esteem to say: "I'm going to butcher my beautiful face to prove to the world how confidant I am."