After a rough couple of months, Operation Smile honored Jessica Simpson on Friday night at the Annual Smile Gala in Beverly Hills.

J. Simp was awarded the Operation Smile Founders Circle Award for her dedication to improving the lives of children throughout the world suffering from facial deformities.

At the gala, papa Joe Simpson dished to UsMagazine.com about Jessica's new reality show "The Price of Beautyl{ Jessica "becomes a geisha in Japan," Joe says. "In Uganda, we sat in a fattening hut because, in Uganda... fat is beautiful. So the bigger you are, the more beautiful you are. She was with a girl who had been in a hut preparing for her wedding for two months and 25 days on a 5,000 calorie-a-day diet." Joe revealed their next stop is Morocco.

Simpson also tells the mag he's proud of his eldest daughter, saying, "She's always scrutinized by the world and [it's great] to watch her go to other countries and see women talk about what is beautiful there."