Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s.

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She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has two gold and three multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums.

Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, an internationally successful Pop Rock singer and actress.

Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas, the daughter of Tina and Joe Truett Simpson, who was a minister and psychologist. She began singing at her local Baptist church. She auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club and made it to the finals at the age of twelve. She attended J.J. Pearce High School, but dropped out around the age of sixteen, after releasing a self-titled gospel album, at the age of fourteen. The album, however, failed to make an impact in the US. Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1998.

Simpson released her first single, “I Wanna Love You Forever,” which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2000. Soon afterward her major label debut album Sweet Kisses was released. Simpson toured with boy band 98 Degrees to promote her new album. She was given a role in the music video for 98 Degrees’ hit song “My Everything,” playing Nick Lachey’s love interest. At that time she and Lachey began dating. After dating for two years the couple cooled their relationship, stating that the “break” allowed them to concentrate on their music careers. Then on September 11, 2001, Lachey was supposed to be flying out of New York City with his group 98 Degrees. When Simpson heard of the attacks on the nation coming from the airport she immediately phoned Lachey to learn his whereabouts. After this scare the couple rekindled the relationship.

In November, 2007, Simpson began dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. They celebrated Thanksgiving together at Simpson’s grandparents’ home in Waco Texas. The relationship has come under scrutiny recently when she was blamed for Romo’s poor football performances as exemplified by a December game in which the Cowboys lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. Some of the Cowboy’s fans have given her the nickname Yoko Romo in comparison to Yoko Ono who many Beatles fans blame for “ruining” John Lennon. This is further fueled when the Cowboys lost to the Giants in the divisional playoffs, when Romo & Simpson went on a trip during the Wild Card game bye week. FOX broadcaster Terry Bradshaw called into question Simpson and Romo vacationing in Mexico.

“If only Tony had called me and said, ‘Terry, Jessica [Simpson] and I are going to go to Mexico,’ I would’ve told him: ‘You crazy? Don’t do that! The paparazzi is going to find you, man. You’re a star. She’s a star. It’s just going to happen,’ ” Bradshaw said in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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