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Continuing the 17 Things tradition about Ashlee Simpson…

ASHLEE CONFESSES: I’m a huge fan of female singers like Etta James and Courtney Love.

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Star magazine’s recent UK edition of its magazine has a full spread on Jessica Simpson’s biggest regret: divorcing Nick Lachey. The magazine even goes so far as to claim that Jessica wants to win Nick back and is currently scheming how to go about doing that.

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I told you a few days ago that I’d do a series called “Seventeen Things You Didn’t Know About Ashlee” based on an interview she gave Seventeen magazine, my arch nemesis. (Well, that may be taking it a little far, but whatever.) So, without further ado, SEVENTEEN THINGS:

ASHLEE CONFESSES: “I’m really grumpy in the morning.”

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If you don’t believe in the healing powers of love, believe this (or at least entertain the rumor): Ashlee Simpson saved her boyfriend, Pete Wentz, from depression and suicide. According to an article published by Stuff, Pete is ready to put his wild partying behind him and settle down.

Pete said: “I picture myself having a family now. Before, my dreams were about being in a huge band. Now, my dreams are of back yards and hanging out. It’s a progression for me, trying to figure out what’s normal.”

The 22-year-old - who has battled depression and prescription drugs - is rumoured to be engaged to Ashlee, also 22, and says he now has a reason to live.

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We reported before that Jessica was on the cover of Germany’s edition of Glamour magazine, and it appears as though she’s making the rounds. Now Jessica is on the cover of Holland’s TV/Film magazine.

I can’t read any of this, considering it’s in Dutch, but for any of you who took Dutch classes in high school or college now is the time to brush up on your reading skills!! (Or, you know, if you’re just bilingual. And if you are, I heart you.)

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Ashlee recently hooked up with Seventeen magazine for a photo shoot, and unlike some celebrities (ahem, Britney Spears!), the spread turned out delightfully. I’ve scanned it for you, just because I love you so. Without further ado: the cover, the article, the shoot. And stay tuned next week for SEVENTEEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ASHLEE (and neither did I).

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Jessica recently graced the covers of the German edition of Glamour magazine, and holy smokes - she looks hot. I love the smokey, Egyptian-esque eye her makeup artist gave her, and the sultry look she’s giving the camera. She looks like an International Woman of Mystery!

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Jessica Simpson’s dad Joe talks about the many “interesting” roles Jessica has been offered over the years:

She’s always been herself on camera, but Jessica Simpson isn’t ready to show all of herself on camera.

“The last script that came to us was for Jessica to be a porn star,” Jessica’s father and manager, Joe Simpson, told PEOPLE at Thursday’s ABC Television Critics Association party in Beverly Hills.

“We were promised we would win an Oscar with that,” says Simpson, 49. “I was like, ‘Eh, we’ll just buy a [statue of a] little man and keep our clothes on.’ ”

Since she shot to fame in 2003 with ex-husband Nick Lachey on MTV’s Newlyweds Jessica Simpson, 27, has been receiving quirky TV-show proposals “every day,” according to her father.

“We’re pitched those a lot,” he says. “There are a lot of cool ones, and a lot of really strange ones.”

Currently, Papa Simpson is promoting ABC’s fall series The Women’s Murder Club, which he is producing with Rush Hour director Brett Ratner. No plans are underway for Jessica or her younger sister Ashlee Simpson, 22, to appear on the show.

“They’re very busy, and they’re happy,” Joe Simpson says of his daughters. “Jessica has three more movies to shoot; she has a new record coming in September. If the right role came up, of course, we’d never turn that down.”

Jessica Simpson is a big spender, she recently admitted to Harper’s Bazaar — big surprise there. But the singer/actress also revealed that while sister Ashlee “goes to a thrift store and can buy something for 20 bucks … I have to go buy a black button-down at Barneys. For $900. Because it’s a collector’s item,” she said in the magazine’s August issue, which features Jessica on the cover. When asked which career she would pick if she had to choose between music and movies, she replied, “In my music career, there have been moments of failure, and with acting I haven’t had that yet. But music is opening up my heart and every emotion inside of me.”

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Nick Lachey has been very busy of late. The hunky singer has been in damage control mode since photos of Vanessa Minnillo and him romping around and streaking outside of a Mexican villa were published. Many fans of his former wife Jessica Simpson and Nick as a couple are hoping that may drive him back to Simpson.

A new report claims that Jess feels the same way. OK! Magazine reports that it has been a year since Jessica Simpson’s divorce to Nick Lachey became final. Now, the pop princess is telling friends that it was the biggest mistake of her life.

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She may have a killer body in our eyes, but Jessica Simpson admits she suffers from cellulite and “fat rolls,” and she’s hoping her range of beachwear will help women shed their body inhibitions and just have a good time.

Simpson debuted her swimwear collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Miami, Florida this last Saturday. She had everything from skimpy sexy two-pieces to modest yet trendy one-piece suits.

She tells MTV.com, “There’s always fun in a bathing suit. And you know that when people are buying a bathing suit, they’re buying it because they want to go do something to enjoy themselves, and that’s kind of where I’m at in my life.”

She continued, “(I’m) not afraid to celebrate a woman’s body. I do want to inspire people to fall in love with their body and be confident in who they are. I mean, I’ll show you that I have fat rolls. I have cellulite here and there, but I just want people to know that I’m a real person.”

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Jessica Simpson is keeping it real — for now. “I’ve had none,” she says, when asked about plastic surgery.

“But maybe after having kids, if my boobs dropped down to my bellybutton, I would get them lifted,” Simpson tells fashion designer pal Michael Kors, who writes about her in the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar, on newsstands July 24. She adds, “But you know, my boobs are real.”

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In Style’s July issue (on sale Friday, June 22) features a music portfolio with seven of the hottest stars in the music industry, including Ashlee Simpson, talking about what inspires their music.

Actress turned chart-topping singer Ashlee Simpson, who is recording her third album due out this fall, tells In Style that she is inspired by the beach. Simpson says, “Being by the water makes me feel so peaceful. Before I head into the studio, that’s where I go to clear my head and write. I wear flip-flops and no makeup. I just take my journal and chill.” Simpson’s favorite songs include music by The Beatles, Steel Pulse, Patty Griffin, Bob Marley & the Wailers, and The Cure.

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According to a recent Life Style Extra article, Jessica Simpson has been reportedly telling all her friends that she is “totally done” with John Mayer and that the relationship was unhealthy.

“She was telling friends, ‘We were so different, we were fighting so much. I’m really happy to be out of that relationship. This time, it’s totally done.’”

Who do you think Jess will date next?

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In a message to her fans on her personal website, the newly blonde bombshell, 26, reveals that she’s turned to artist Michelangelo, and has been journaling her way to inner peace. She writes:

“I just got back from spending some time in Europe, and while I was there I visited many museums, and have been reading about different artists. I have also been writing a lot in my journal recently. I was reading a book about Michelangelo and there were 2 quotes that caught my attention”:

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”

These quotes inspired Jes to write the below passage. She hopes you can find your own individual meaning in it, as she keeps coming back to it and finding new strength.

“Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead us somewhere off the path of the life we’ve mapped out in our minds. Today, I challenge us to ask ourselves this…

What if we allow our fear to provoke us into action?

Can facing our fear be what walks us to somewhere better?

I do not have your answers, but in the quest to find my own, I’ve discovered somewhere worth traveling to…

In my life, I ignore my fears too often, but then I’m left with nothing to challenge the best of me. I just remain cowering from my true identity.

There is no discovery.”

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