Stars Who Waited for Their Wedding Night

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson
Long before they were “Newlyweds,” Lachey and Simpson were chaste boyfriend and girlfriend. At age 12, Simpson’s father Joe gave her a purity ring vowing that he hoped that she would wait until she was married … and she claims she held true to that promise until she married Lachey in 2002 at the age of 22. “Of all the things about myself, staying a virgin until my wedding night is the thing that makes me most ... more 

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson
Long before they were “Newlyweds,” Lachey and Simpson were chaste boyfriend and girlfriend. At age 12, Simpson’s father Joe gave her a purity ring vowing that he hoped that she would wait until she was married … and she claims she held true to that promise until she married Lachey in 2002 at the age of 22. “Of all the things about myself, staying a virgin until my wedding night is the thing that makes me most proud,” she said in 2004. “I've been with men who've dumped me because they couldn't believe I really didn't want to have sex. They thought it was a publicity stunt … Nick was for real. He respected me for it. It was often him having to fend me off. Boy, it was hard, but he knew I'd hate myself and him in the morning." Despite making Lachey her first, he certainly wasn't her last. The couple split in 2005. These days, Simpson clearly is not waiting for her next wedding night … she’s currently expecting her second child, a son, with fiancé Eric Johnson. less