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JESSICA IS A BIG STAR

Wow, Jessica Simpson looks as if she could be an offensive lineman for her quarterback boyfriend.

A plump, jeans-busting Simpson stunned fans with her new bulky build over the weekend.

Simpson, 28, has packed on some serious pounds in recent months, and also wore an outfit that accentuated every unflattering curve of her 5-foot-3 frame.

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It doesn’t look as if she’s ready to squeeze herself into any Daisy Duke short-shorts (above), which she made famous in the 2005 flick “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

The songbird, who serenaded fans with “These Boots Are Made for Walking,” gushed that she was looking forward to spending time this week with her boyfriend, Dallas Cowboy QB Tony Romo.

“My boyfriend is a football player, and he takes up my Sundays and now my Mondays,” Simpson told the crowd at Radio 99.9 Kiss Country’s annual chili cookoff in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on Sunday.

Simpson was a favorite target of fashion police in 2007 for wearing a pair of similarly unflattering high-waisted jeans, sans this weekend’s tacky double leopard-print belt.

In interviews, Simpson has said she’s proud of her curves and rejected America’s thin-is-in mentality.

“Curves are better,” Simpson told Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 2007.