Jessica Simpson may have been dumped by Tony Romo, but her family has no hard feelings.

“We like all our exes,” her mom, Tina, told E! News at a Gap event in Hollywood Thursday.

How’s Jessica handling the split, which happened on the eve of her 29th birthday in July?

“Jessica is just a really strong girl,” says Tina. “She has her stuff together. She really does. She’s really solid.

“I’m very proud of her,” Tina went on, adding that Jessica is currently “awesome…she’s doing very good.”

Tina says she’s been spending the summer with Jessica and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz “working, hanging out by the pool, enjoying the grandson.”

Bronx, 8 months, “is a sweetheart,” Tina says. “He’s so cute. And getting so big…I’m a proud grandmother!”

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Jessica Simpson was looking a little worse for wear as she arrived at Beso in Hollywood, CA on August 5, 2009 to celebrate good friend Ken Paves’ birthday.

That picture of him grabbing her arm gives me the creeps!

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Did Jessica Simpson see it coming?

In an interview before her split from Tony Romo, she speaks about the process of moving on from a painful breakup – and even ponders how she’d cope with losing Romo.

“If this article comes out and we’re not together, I’d still love him, and he’d still be a huge part of who I am today,” Simpson, 29 tells Glamour in its September issue.

Simpson compared the end of a relationship to “a death in the family.”

“You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself,” she says. “Once you do that, you feel complete – and that’s the only time you can truly fall in love again, and give yourself over completely to another person.”

Life for Simpson now is filled with projects. Her fashion design line, the Jessica Simpson Collection, is expected to reap hug earnings (Glamour estimates around $450 million). And she’s got a new VH1 show, The Price of Beauty, where she travels the world discovering what constitutes beauty in other cultures.

“Whether wearing rings to elongate your neck in Thailand or having plastic surgery in Brazil, women all over the world go to [great] lengths to feel beautiful,” she says. “It’s not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.”

That idea especially appeals to Simpson, who was criticized over a recent weight gain. “I absolutely, 100 percent do not agree with how the media has made everyone [body] obsessed,” she said. “And they do have the power to do it. Celebrities aren’t perfect. It’s amazing to me how much thought is put into a woman’s figure on tabloid covers.”

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is in awe of sister Jessica, who was dumped by beau Tony Romo the night before her 29th birthday in July.

“I don’t think I’ve ever known anybody stronger than her,” Ashlee told Usmagazine.com Monday at the CBS, CW, CBS Television Studios & Showtime TCA party in Pasadena, Calif. “My sister is amazing. I spend so much time with her.”

Ashlee is currently gearing up for the fall premiere of her new CW show Melrose Place.

Balancing work and motherhood isn’t as tough as it seems, said the mother of 8-month-old son Bronx.

“It’s been good so far,” she said. “For me, I wanted to do something that’s a bit more stable, and it’s been that, which has been perfect. And we get to travel. We’ve been to Paris, Japan, everywhere with my son. And he’s so happy and healthy. I’m very fortunate he’s on a good schedule.”

She also said it’s been fun playing a vixen.

“She’s interesting. I think she’s creepy,” she told Us when asked to describe her character, Violet. “I think that she’s unaccepted and wants to be loved.”

Ashlee didn’t watch the original Fox series regularly, but said she’s “gone back and watched some of it [on DVD], and it’s great.”

Added Ashlee, “The fun thing about [the new show] is that hopefully people that watched it, and even watched the DVDs, will be into it because it brings the ‘oohs and aahs’ and the drama.”

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Jessica Simpson hit the town in Hollywood Saturday night, dining at hotspot Katsuya with friends – including sister Ashlee Simpson-Wentz – but one person was not there: Her ex John Mayer.

Contrary to reports circulating online that Mayer met up with Simpson at the restaurant, a source tells People he was never there Saturday. Instead, Mayer showed up at Katsuya on Sunday and had a guys’ night out.

Mayer and his three buddies drank whiskey neat and enjoyed crispy rice, spicy tuna, edamame and yellowtail with jalapeno, according to the source.

“I don’t know where this rumor got started,” added a source close to Simpson. “John was not at Katsuya with Jess.”

Mayer, 31, and Simpson, 29, have been in contact via text message since her split from NFL star Tony Romo, but, “they haven’t met up,” according to a Mayer source. “They’re friendly but that’s it.”

At Simpson’s dinner on Saturday one thing seemed apparent: She wasn’t mourning her split from Romo. “Jessica looked like she was having a good time with her friends,” says an onlooker. “She was all smiles and didn’t look like Tony was on her mind at all.”

Reps for both Simpson and Mayer had no comment.

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Jessica Simpson is doing everything she can to battle back from heartbreak. Life post-Tony Romo consists of lots of exercise and bonding time with her best friend and personal hair-stylist Ken Paves. The two visited an LA park Monday morning for a jog with Paves’ three Saluki dogs, and Jessica showered the pups with affection, exchanging kisses and petting them lovingly. Still a bit withdrawn and noticeably downtrodden, Simpson seems determined to bounce back from the breakup toned and beautiful, with the support of her closest family and friends.

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