Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were the victims of monkey thieves who stole all their designer gear during a recent Costa Rican retreat.

The pair was staying at a hotel in the Latin American paradise when things started to go missing from their room.

Simpson explains, “We’d go to sleep and we’d wake up, and the maid wasn’t even here, but sunglasses, my Sony, my favorite Wireseal hat, all this stuff, my favourite make-up bag (was gone). We were like, ‘Where is everything?’ We asked the hotel and they said that the monkeys like shiny things. That monkey has some serious designer clothes.”

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Pete Wentz has credited his fiancee Ashlee Simpson and his regular therapy sessions with helping him overcome depression.

The bassist recently admitted that he was once so depressed he tried to kill himself.

But Wentz is convinced that although he still battles with mental health issues, his relationship with Simpson has made him more emotionally balanced.
He says, “The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
“I think I’ve come to terms with that over the last six months. I’m in a happier place… Things are so good with Ashlee. To be in a position where you’re with your best friend and you can hang out with them all the time is great. I never have moments of doubt with her.”

The couple announced their engagement earlier this month after dating for two years.

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If she has a bun in the oven….it’s not terribly obvious.  I guess time will tell.

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A day after Ashlee Simpson gushed about the size of the rock she was given by fiancé Pete Wentz, the singer was flashing it on Friday’s Today show.

“I feel like a really lucky lady,” a bubbly Simpson, 23, told the program’s Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, before she sang a song from her new CD (to be released Tuesday), Bittersweet World.

Asked if she has a wedding date in mind, Simpson said, “I don’t. Right now we’re just enjoying the engagement.”

And, though a source close to the Simpson family confirmed to PEOPLE that the singer is expecting, she remained mum on the pregnancy buzz. “That’s been going around for a year now,” she replied. “Only time will tell with that.”

After a beat, she added, “I am giving birth to my new record.”

On Thursday, Simpson told Ryan Seacrest on his KISS-FM radio show that her ring is huge. “I stare at it. I’m like, ‘Oh, my god, I can’t believe this is on [my] hand!’ ”

After the commercial break on Today, in fact, Lauer apologized to viewers for not letting Simpson give them a better view of the ring on her finger.

Admiring the diamond, Vieira said, “So elegant. It’s beautiful.”

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Ashlee Simpson is one ecstatic wife-to-be, and her diamond sparkler had her gushing to Ryan Seacrest on Thursday morning.

Calling into to his KIIS-FM radio show Thursday morning, the 23-year old singer giggled when Seacrest brought up her impressive ring from fiancé Pete Wentz, 28. “It is [huge]!” Simpson said from her mother’s New York City hotel room, “I stare at it. I’m like, ‘Oh, my god, I can’t believe this is on [my] hand!’”

Simpson was more coy about other details of their recent engagement to the Fall Out Boy bassist. “I’m keeping that part sacred,” she said of Wentz’s actual proposal. “But I will tell you it was very thoughtful and he did a great job.”

Pushed on whether she was planning on drinking alcohol Thursday night, Simpson stayed mum on her pregnancy, playfully answering, “Who knows. Maybe.”

Still, Simpson couldn’t contain her happiness. Despite the name of her upcoming album – Bittersweet World, out April 22 – she said she was “extremely in love making the record.”

Rapper Nas called the newly engaged couple “super people” and shared his recipe for rock star marital bliss with People at a Belvedere vodka event. “Respect each person’s individuality,” said Nas, who has his own high-profile musical marriage with R&B singer Kelis. “Don’t try to hog somebody or handcuff ‘em. Help them grow and blossom.”

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Photographed outside the Chart House Restaurant in Malibu, Calif., on April 12, where sources tell OK! that Ashlee Simpson did her best to power through a bout of morning sickness, the 23-year-old appears to already be showing the first signs of a baby bump! And with insiders saying that the first Wentz-Simpson offspring is due in October, that would mean the singer is nearing the end of her first trimester.

Ashlee Simpson is pregnant and plans to get married next month at a private residence in Southern California, a source close to her family tells People.

Simpson, 23, is engaged to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, 28, who initially blasted pregnancy rumors as a “witch hunt.”

But on Tuesday, Simpson, sidestepped the rumors during an interview with MTV after taping TRL in New York, saying simply, “Some things you want to keep personal.”

And now the source tells People that not only is Simpson pregnant, but that she’s planning to have her wedding in May at a friend’s house in La Jolla, Calif., north of San Diego.

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