Reports: Singer Ashlee Simpson is pregnant

April 15, 2008

Singer Ashlee Simpson (Getty Images/William Thomas Cain)

So is Ashlee Simpson pregnant?

A source confirmed to usmagazine.com and OK! magazine's Web site that that the singer, 23, is expecting her first child with fiance Pete Wentz, 28.

Simpson and the Fall Out Boy frontman announced their engagement Wednesday.

But if you ask Wentz, there's nothing to the rumors. "There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood," he wrote in an e-mail to MTV News. "This is all news to me. ... I mean really, this is crazy. ... I mean we're engaged, that's true, and happy about it."

A spokeswoman for the couple told Us, "We are thrilled to confirm their engagement and congratulate this happy couple. Beyond that there is nothing to say."

OK! and Us Weekly both cited unnamed sources close to the couple in their stories. OK!, which reports that the baby is due in October, offered as "proof" an account of Simpson dealing with a "fierce bout of what appeared to be morning sickness" during a lunch at Malibu's Chart House restaurant.