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Marriage and Career

On October 26, 2002, Simpson married Nick Lachey. She famously announced that she remained a virgin until her wedding night, making Lachey the only man she had been with intimately. During the summer of 2003, Simpson and Lachey's reality show Newlyweds began airing on MTV. Although Simpson was moderately famous before the series began, the show is considered responsible for transforming her into a star.

Throughout the run of three seasons she seemed to epitomize the stereotypical dumb blonde, notably when she asked whether the Chicken of the Sea tuna she was eating was chicken or fish, and when she thought that buffalo wings were made from actual buffalo.

Her apparent stupidity helped make the show a huge hit, making the average rating for each episode about 1.4 million viewers. (The gaffe was also a running joke in a Pizza Hut commercial, where she was shown to be annoyed at having her intelligence mocked again.) When introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Simpson responded: "You've done a nice job decorating the White House". It has been suggested that her apparent lack of intelligence is simply an act she has parlayed into various commercial, television and film endorsements.

Banking on the success of her new popularity, she appeared on a variety show with Lachey on the ABC called the Nick and Jessica Variety Hour in 2004. A pilot for a sitcom on ABC was also planned, but was rejected by network executives in May 2004. During that summer, Simpson won three Teen Choice Awards for Female Fashion Icon, Hottie Female, and Female Reality/Variety TV Star for Newlyweds. In 2005, the series won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show and wrapped shortly after.

Simpson's third album, In This Skin, was released during the summer of 2003 to coincide with the premiere of Newlyweds. Though initially the album was not a huge success, it rebounded on the charts when a special collector's edition was released in the spring of 2004. It subsequently reached a peak of number two on the Billboard 200 and the top forty of the UK charts, due largely to the success of Newlyweds. The album eventually proved to be her most commercially successful, selling three million copies in the U.S.; it also yielded arguably her most successful single to-date, "With You".

Simpson released a holiday album in late 2004 entitled Rejoyce, which sold moderately. During the summer of 2005, Simpson made her first major film appearance as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. The film debuted at number one on the U.S. box-office chart, grossing more than thirty million USD. One of the songs from the film's soundtrack, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", was sung by Simpson. The track won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Song from a Movie in early 2006.

In November 2005, after months of speculation, Simpson and her husband Nick Lachey officially announced that they had split. Simpson filed for divorce on December 16, 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences". She has asked the courts not to grant Lachey spousal support.

2006: Currently: Simpson's next album, And the Band Played On, is set to be released May 16. It has been described by Simpson as having "a little bit of everything in it", and it will sound like "Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Stevie Nicks – it's all over the place. But then there's songs for us girls to dance to in the club", according to Simpson. For the first time in her career Simpson is co-writing and co-producing her own material; she registered a number of new songs on the website for the ASCAP and is also the executive producer of the album.

Simpson also expanded her market in the fashion world by announcing the release of her shoe collection to be released in major department stores across the US starting in February 2006. She is also featured in a new Pizza Hut commercial for their new Cheesy Bites Pizza, singing a variation of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" called "These Bites Are Made For Poppin'" The commercial also features a short cameo appearence by Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

Jessica Simpson recently bought a $5.5 million mansion in Beverly Hills. Gossip magazines have begun printing rumors about her and her personal trainer. Jessica has also started filming her second movie Employee of the Month, in New Mexico.

Simpson was married to Nick Lachey from 2002-2005. She since has been linked to Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine.

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