Posted Dec. 4, 2008

Jessica Simpson has recently gushed that Tony Romo is "the whole package," "the calm of the storm in my life" and "everything I could dream of." But it looks like she now has a new way to describe him: live-in love.

Us Weekly says the bingo hall-touring starlet, 28, who celebrated her one-year anniversary with the Dallas Cowboys quarterback over Thanksgiving, is now shacking up with him in his Irving, Texas, digs.

"They are doing great," a source enthuses to the mag. "Now it's Tony, Jess and his roommate!"

But another insider downplays the cohabiting, saying, "Jessica stays at his home when she's in town, but she hasn't totally moved in yet. She's been busy with her country music stuff."

At least Romo knows what to expect when it comes to sharing his personal space with Simpson, who told People in September, "To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs."

She also comes with an extensive collection of personal growth tomes and bags of small change.

(©Marie Claire)

"I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book," Jess confesses in the January issue of Marie Claire. "I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not."

There's also her weakness for bright and shiny coinage: "I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag."

But she also has a more personal talisman.

"I wear my grandmother's wedding ring on my thumb. She passed away, and I feel like she is my guardian angel, so I always keep the wedding ring on," says the former Mrs. Nick Lachey, before clarifying, "Her wedding ring, not mine!"

Simpson also offers a revelation that will either provide a setup for a future Christian music CD or an MTV reality show called "Matriculating with Jessica."

"I've been contemplating taking a college course in religion. I love religion," says the warbler, who not only boasts a former minister in father Joe but also prays before meals and bedtime with Romo. "I remember whenever the book 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, the Discovery Channel did this three-night piece on it that I TiVoed and then watched eight times."

In addition to the possibility of Simpson becoming a theologian, the mag promises "31 things you don't know" about her from the likes of sister Ashlee, Papa Joe, mane man Ken Paves, Loretta Lynn and, in a he-picked-up-the-phone-so-we-had-to-include-him selection, her two-time co-star, Andy Dick.

A few highlights:

"She's not willing to be defeated by failure," pronounces career overlord Joe.

"She don't look down on anybody; she just looks straight ahead. I don't think the girl could ever do anybody wrong, I really don't," gushes Loretta.

"She's not this glamour, Hollywood, glitzed-out bitch cat. She looks like one, but she is the sweetest apple-pie, corn-fed farmer's daughter type," opines Dick.

"She only washes her hair about two to three times a month. I told Jess a long time ago that you should only wash your hair a few times a week, and in between, rinse it and condition it. And her hair looks fantastic all the time," overshares Paves.