Oh, man, Pete Wentz just scored major points in my book. Check him cussing out the photogs as they swarm him and Ashlee. You go get ‘em, Petey!

A red-headed Ashlee Simpson shows off a little bit of her baby bump as she arrives at Cafe Med with Petey Pete Wentz on Tuesday.

Awww, she makes a cute preggers chick!! So far, she seems to be one of those girls that manages to gain pregnancy weight only in her tummy — her arms and legs haven’t grown hardly at all! I wanna be that kind of pregnant chick! (I’m so shallow.)

She’s not even showing yet — and there’s been no confirmation from anyone in her camp — but Papa Joe Simpson is reportedly already trying to cash in on Ashlee’s rumored pregnancy.

Says a source: “Joe is contacting all the weeklies and asking them to pony up $1 million to put Ashlee on the cover … The deal would include photos of Ashlee – taken by Joe, of course, so he can make more money – an interview and photos of the baby when she has it.”

Another in the magazine world says that Ashlee could fetch “$60,000 maybe – but definitely not a million. The timing is a little suspicious. Her album is dropping next week, and there was little to no interest until now. Ashlee’s lucky she got pregnant, frankly.”

Lucky? Or smart?

“Unplanned” pregnancies are like totally the coolest thing ever right now! Used to be you just had to get a little dog and a Louis Vuitton carrier. Now you have to birth a freakin’ human.

Here are the first shots of the maybe-preggers Ashlee Simpson rocking the engagement ring she got from Pete Wentz.

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m gonna expect when I get engaged. Which’ll be never.

Come on, we’ve always known that underneath that whole “we’re sisters and we love and support each other unconditionally act,” there’s always been some serious sibling rivalry between Jessica and Ashlee Simpson.

And now OK! magazine is confirming that Jessica is, of course, ridiculously jealous of Ashlee right now.

“Jessica Simpson has yearned for a baby for years. She’s told friends that she can’t wait to be a mom and has even joked that if she has to, she’ll resort to making her hairstylist pal Ken Paves the adoptive daddy,” says an inside source. “Jessica never imagined that her tomboy younger sister would have a baby first. It would be very hard for her not to be jealous.”

Awww, don’t be jealous, Jess! When Ashlee’s marriage falls flat on its ass after six months, she’ll have a fucking baby to take care of! At least when you walked away from your ill-considered marriage, all you had to deal with was the wrath of the tabloids. They’re a pain in the ass, but they don’t wake you up screaming in the middle of the night.

After Ashlee’s non-denial to MTV News, People magazine is getting in on the action, claiming that the starlet is, in fact, preggo.

They say she’s planning to have the wedding in May, at a friend’s house in La Jolla.

When asked by MTV News’ Kim Stolz (I love that Kim Stolz has a career now) about her possible pregnancy, Ashlee responded with this:

“I just think it’s an inappropriate question to ask any woman. For me, that’s something that I didn’t ever want to respond to, because I think it’s an inappropriate question. Some things, you want to keep personal, and I think that when people deny [reports that they're pregnant], it’s probably because it’s something they want to keep personal.”

This is a far cry from the flat-out denial we got from Pete.

So either she is pregnant, and just doesn’t want to make an announcement until she’s through her first trimester, or Papa Joe’s whispering in her ear all like, “Ride this shit out, baby. Tons of publicity!”

Also: I love how having babies out of wedlock is totally the new black.