Jessica Simpson Picture and Video Collection

Born: Thursday, July 10th, 1980

Jessica Ann Simpson is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two 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 a successful career as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, a pop rock singer.

Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas, the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister who is now her manager) and Tina Drew. Simpson began singing in her Baptist church choir. At the age of 10, she sang in and won her school talent contest. In 1992, at age 12, she made an unsuccessful audition for The New Mickey Mouse Club, that also starred future pop superstars Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Simpson later attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas . She recorded an album over the next three years; however, the label folded before the record could be released. During this time, she also toured with the Christian Youth Conference circuit performing with Kirk Franklin, God's Property, and CeCe Winans. She and her father sold copies of the album after these performances. Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records later obtained a copy of the album and, thinking she had potential as a pop singer, signed her to a recording contract.

Simpson reportedly told Jane magazine in October 2006 that she knew her marriage to Lachey was over when he refused to join her on a charity trip to Africa, even though it was on their third wedding anniversary. Questions remain over whether the trip was to celebrate the anniversary or just a PR junket guided by her father/manager who accompanied her on that day.

The couple reportedly sold their Calabasas mansion in which Newlyweds was filmed to Malcolm in the Middle star Justin Berfield for about $3.75 million.

Simpson has received a good deal of publicity in the aftermath of her marriage to Lachey. Following their break-up and her divorce, she was reportedly linked to her Employee of the Month co-star Dane Cook and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine . On February 6, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Simpson says she was stung when ex-husband jumped back into dating after their high-profile breakup. "Oh, it hurt me," the 26-year-old singer-actress says in an interview in the March issue of Elle magazine. "Two or three weeks later? Yeah, I'd say it kind of hurt me." Magazines have also speculated that she was jealous of her ex-husband's growing stardom and relationship with television personality Vanessa Minnillo, though she has publicly denied this.

Simpson is currently dating John Mayer. Dating rumors started in August 2006 with a People magazine article, but kicked into high gear when Simpson and Mayer spent New Year's holiday together in New York City, both attending Christina Aguilera's New Years Eve 2006 party. Reports indicated that the two were very publicly affectionate. In the March 2007 issue of Elle, Simpson said that in her private life she is "begging and pleading for privacy," but the interviewer did notice emails, videos, and photos of Mayer on Simpson's laptop. The two were spotted kissing and hugging at a 2007 Grammy after-party, and posed for photos. Simpson also accompanied Mayer for several dates of his 2007 winter tour, before the two departed for Rome.

Simpson has been involved in philanthropy. In March 2007 Simpson donated a new Chrysler minivan to the Elim orphanage in Nuevo Laredo. Simpson had won a Chrysler Crossfire sports car at the 2006 MTV awards, but exchanged the $50,000 luxury car for a minivan so she could help the orphanage. She first visited that orphanage as a child as part of her youth group mission. She has also mentioned that she has plans to adopt in the future.

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