Ashlee Simpson, 40, is preparing to open a residency at the Venetian resort in Las Vegas while recovering from a cold. She has three children ages 4 to 16 and accepts that frequent illnesses accompany parenting. Simpson launched her pop career in the early 2000s as the younger sister of Jessica Simpson and starred on MTV's The Ashlee Simpson Show. Her debut album Autobiography topped the Billboard 200 in 2004. A lip-sync incident on Saturday Night Live followed, which she attributed to acid reflux. She released I Am Me (2005) and Bittersweet World (2008) before focusing on family. Her early music influenced younger artists blending pop, rock and punk.
As exhaustively documented on MTV's "The Ashlee Simpson Show" - a spinoff of the trailblazing "Newlyweds" about Jessica's marriage to Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees - Ashlee released her debut album, "Autobiography," at age 19 in 2004, topping the Billboard 200 on her first try before watching it all seem to crash down around her when she was caught trying to lip-sync on "Saturday Night Live." (She later said that acid reflux had left her unable to sing.)
Simpson released two more albums - "I Am Me" in 2005 and the synthed-up "Bittersweet World" in 2008 - then largely left music to concentrate on raising a family. In 2008, she and her then-husband, Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy, welcomed a son; she and Wentz divorced three years later, after which she married actor and musician Evan Ross, with whom she has a daughter and a son.
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