VIDEO : Why Natalie Portman Apologized To Jessica Simpson

The Wrap reported that Natalie Portman has apologized to Jessica Simpson after she was accused of body shaming the singer in a recent interview. Portman told Entertainment Tonight, ?I would never intend to shame anybody and that was absolutely not my intention." Portman was referring to comments she made to USA Today about "mixed media messages out there for young women." In the USA Today interview, Portman said she looked up to Madonna as a role model while growing up because she was "brazen and disobedient and provocative and trying to mess with people and always changing." She contrasted that by criticizing Jessica Simpson, who she said as a teenager made her "feel confused" when Simpson would appear on a magazine cover wearing a bikini while stating that she was a virgin.