Jessica Simpson broke down in tears as she performed at a country music festival in Wisconsin on Saturday night.

Playing to a crowd of several thousand – including boyfriend Tony Romo – at Country Thunder USA, Simpson told fans, “This is my first time being onstage in three years. Coming out tonight makes me extremely emotional, I’m so thankful for all of the personal struggles and all of the tabloids and all of the people that talk s—,” she continued, choking back tears. “I’m so happy I went through that because it makes life so much more beautiful.”

Alison Sweeney has gotten her wish: She’s expecting a little girl, the soap star and Biggest Loser host tells Entertainment Tonight.

“The whole experience of having a little girl, I’d love that,” Sweeney, 31,said last month, adding that she often looks at little girls’ clothes while shopping for her son Ben, 3.

Sweeney’s daughter is expected to arrive in January, she tells ET.

When the moment finally came to welcome their newborn twins into the world, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were as calm as could be.

During the labor and delivery, the couple “were talking, they were together,” Dr. Michel Sussmann told reporters outside Fondation Lenval Hospital in Nice, France, where twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon were born on Saturday. “It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy.”