Singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has revealed that having to carry her baby boy upstairs helps her to keep in shape.

The Chicago star made her comments in local Los Angeles newspaper, the Daily News, in an article about celebrity fitness.

She said: “I have lots of stairs at my house and my son [Bronx] is 33lb now, so I carry him up the stairs a lot.”

Simpson-Wentz also revealed that carrying her 20-month-old son around is not the only way that she keeps trim.

She said: “I definitely hit the gym. I’ll do 30 minutes when he’s down for a nap. I’ll do 30 minutes of cardio and I also like a class called Cardio Barre [aerobic-ballet workout].”

The 25-year-old singer-turned-actress, who has admitted to battling anorexia as a teenager, said that these days she tries to be sensible when it comes to losing weight.

She said: “I just like to feel healthy and live a nice lifestyle. I don’t like to tell myself I can’t have something, so if I want cake I’ll eat in moderation…

“I don’t not allow myself to have things, because then it’s all a mind-game.”

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz has is living a full life as a singer, actress, and mom to Bronx Mowgli Wentz with husband and former Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. Now that her son is a little older, Simpson-Wentz is working on a new album.

“Yes, I’m in the studio now,” She told OnTheRedCarpet.com. “I’m doing it quietly, taking my time, enjoying it. Because, really I’m at a great place in my life and my first priority is Bronx. It will be just what I want it to be, at the right time, when I’m ready for it.”

Speaking of her son Bronx, Simpson-Wentz says: “Bronx is amazing, he’s 20 months now and he’s just growing, and growing, and growing.” The young Wentz is also just starting to talk and Simpson-Wentz says, “It’s great to watch him learn.”

As for the rest of the family, Simpson-Wentz recently told E!Online that she approves of her sister, Jessica Simpson, and her new boyfriend Eric Johnson. “Jessica is happy, so I am happy,” she said. The new couple recently celebrated Jessica Simpson’s 30th birthday together in Italy.

Check out the video interview with Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, carried out by reporter Rachel Smith at an the debut of jewelry designer Neil Lane’s new collection at Drai’s nightclub in Hollywood.

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This is SO exciting!

Just because Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz don’t speak Spanish, doesn’t mean their 20-month-old son Bronx Mowgli can’t.

“He’s speaking some Spanish!” the Fall Out Boy father gushed to us at VH1′s Do Something Awards in Hollywood of the toddler’s recent milestones. “He’s started saying, ‘Sí.’ I always ask him stuff, and he’ll be like, ‘Sí.”

“I speak pretty bad Spanish but we have this fantastic nanny and she speaks Spanish to him,” Wentz explained. “I think it’s really important to be global.”

Meanwhile, Wentz also revealed he’s a freshly-minted fan of our favorite vampire series True Blood.

“Ashlee’s the one who got me into it,” Wentz said.

What’s the appeal?

For him, he simply says, “It’s a really great show.” But for Ashlee, he smiled, “maybe it’s because they have great looking guys.”

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Count Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Victoria Principal among the stars who have fallen under the spell of HBO’s “True Blood.”

Actor Sam Trammell, who plays shapeshifter Sam Merlotte on the enchanting supernatural series, learned he has some very famous female fans when he helped out at Larry King’s telethon for the oil spill last month.

“This guy Pete Wentz, who is Ashlee Simpson’s husband, wanted to take my picture for Ashlee,” Trammell told the New York Post. “I was sitting between him and Nicole Richie. I felt like I was in a club. I was waiting for Lindsay Lohan to throw a drink on me.”

Former “Dallas” star Victoria Principal behaved even more boldly, gushing over the actor and, in particular, his nude scene in “True Blood’s” first episode in which he only had a briefcase protecting his modesty.

“[Principal] was saying, ‘Oh, it was kind of distracting, because you’re naked,’” Trammell recalled. “It was insane. Victoria Principal was flirting with me!”

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Make sure not to miss Ashlee on Access Hollywood on June 24 at 12:30 EST.

Hot mama Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is super svelte these days, but she had a lot of baby weight to lose after having her son Bronx.

“I gained 50 pounds, which was awesome!” she told me at Reebok’s fitness event today. “I ate cake and cupcakes. I had a blast!”

While it wasn’t so fun losing the weight she put on, Ash said she had a little extra help with her workout regimen…

She says the secret’s in her Reebok EasyTone shoes, which claim to tone your butt and thighs just by wearing them.

“When I wanted to get back into shape, I worked out and these shoes are amazing because you can really feel them in your booty,” she swore. “But I also worked out and ate healthy.”

Nowadays, she still lifting weight: her growing son. “I carry Bronx, and he’s 33 pounds so I get my workout in,” she laughed.

But  Ash says that she hasn’t quit logging time on the treadmill, adding: ”I try to hit the gym for 30 minutes while Bronx is napping.”

The actress-singer seems to have majorly downsized her work schedule since appearing in Chicago on Broadway, but she’s happy to take a break from her career (along with a recent trip to Hawaii with her hubby and baby). “Being a mom is my first priority and it’s amazing because you grow up and watch your child grow up,” she explained. “It’s the best thing in the whole entire world.”

And even though both Ashlee and sister Jessica have done reality shows, it doesn’t sound like we’ll see ever see the two doing a Simpson sister show.

“I’m a Wentz now, but no,” Ash added. “No plans for a reality show.”

Twenty two episodes after, it has just been revealed that Nina Dobrev wasn’t The CW’s first choice to lead “The Vampire Diaries“. The network initially wanted Ashlee Simpson to take the role of Elena/Katherine but the producers thought they should look further.

“We all independently looked at a bunch of [audition] DVDs,” co-executive producer and director Marcos Siega said at a recent Screen Actors Guild event for TVD. “We couldn’t find the girl we wanted. The network wanted us to hire Ashlee Simpson. …But Nina sent this DVD back and we all were home looking, searching, and we came in the next day saying, ‘We should look at Nina again.’ We showed it to Peter Roth, and Peter only saw her on that tape and he said, ‘That’s her’.”

Ashlee eventually took a role on “Melrose Place” which is now axed due to low rating. Nina meanwhile shared her side of story to E! Online, saying “Half of Hollywood I think went out for the role, for all our roles. I guess I did something right, here I am. We had to discover and find our characters. Every episode we learned something more and something more, and eventually we created and molded these amazing, awesome characters.”

In fact, Paul Wesley was not always Stefan. Many times he would audition for the role of Damon before Ian Somerhalder snatched it. However, Ian previously said that he didn’t get the role straight away because the producers did not think he portrayed Damon the right way the first time.

“The Vampire Diaries” went through a successful season 1 and has been renewed for another season this Fall. “Typically the second season of every show is generally its best year so I think we need to make it an unbelievable year of television,” Ian said. Nina confirmed that the season will start right where they left it off.

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