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Jessica’s Wild 5-1/2 Months With Eric

By Us Weekly Staff

November 15, 2010

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She met the former NFL star through friends this past spring.

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For her 30th birthday this past July, they visited Italy, where they packed on the PDA.

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"He definitely makes me happy and makes me very comfortable being who I am," she has said.

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She has posted photos of them kissing on Twitter, along with messages like: "I have a major crush on you" and "YUM!"

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"I met a wonderful man," Simpson once Tweeted. "Damn I'm lucky!"

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"She is happy, so we are all really happy," her sister Ashlee previously told Us.

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She has called Johnson -- who ditched plans to attend business school in Pennsylvania so he could be with her -- "a hottie" who "has been an inspiration. He really knows himself."

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"I've never really been in such a healthy relationship," she's said. "I'm like, 'Something's going to go wrong. Is he going to trip me or something?'"

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Sources recently told Us Weekly that Simpson's pals are worried Johnson is just using her for the spotlight. He "was never that successful in the NFL, but he’s always wanted the celebrity lifestyle," a source said.

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Nick Lachey, who? "Our relationship was over a really long time ago, and it would be nice if everyone could move on with us," she's said of her famous ex.

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"[I] definitely dreamed of being married my whole life and having children, so hopefully that's in my future," she said in October.

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Their holiday plans? "I know his family's going to be with us on the float at the Macy's Day Parade," she recently told Ryan Seacrest, adding that they all likely planned to return to her home state of Texas for Christmas.