- Jessica has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums.
- Jessica starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.
- Jessica filed for divorce from Nick on December 16, 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences." The couple's divorce was publicized worldwide and was reportedly finalized on June 30, 2006.
- Jessica ventured into the country music market in 2008 and released Do You Know.
- As a child, Jessica began singing at her local Baptist hurch.
- At age twelve, Jessica unsuccessfully auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club.
- While attending J.J. Pearce High School, she signed to Proclaim Records, a minor Gospel music record label.
- Jessica recorded an album, self-titled, "Jessica", but Proclaim went bankrupt and the album was never officially released except for a small pressing funded by her grandmother.
- Jessica left high school at age sixteen.
- After Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola heard "Jessica", she was signed to the label. Soon afterward her major label debut album Sweet Kisses was released.
- To support the album, Jessica toured with Ricky Martin and with boy band 98 Degrees, and she and 98 Degrees group member Nick Lachey began dating shortly afterwards.
- In December 2006, while performing a tribute to Dolly Parton at the Kennedy Center Awards, she botched the lyrics, getting flustered in front of a crowd that included prominent persons such as Steven Spielberg, Shania Twain, and President George W. Bush. Though Jessica was given the chance to redo the song for cameras, her portion was edited out of the CBS broadcast.
- Jessica appeared in the Dukes of Hazzard, and her second film was Employee of the Month.
- Jessica also designs and markets a line of handbags and (primarily high-heeled) shoes and boots.
- In June 2008 Jessica was seen with boyfriend Tony Romo wearing a shirt that said "Real Girls Eat Meat". It was seen as a slam at Romo's ex girlfriend Carrie Underwood who is a vegetarian. Jessica received heated criticism from PETA.
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