Age bar is grayed out and can't get to fame menu

It's important to know that I had sims 4 downloaded before and uninstalled it via control panel, but didn't go in and delete any files. It was another pirated copy, btw. Well, recently, I wanted to get it again so I redownloaded from FitGirl. Everything works fine except that the age bar is gray, further investigating shows that the sims ARE aging anyways, but I also cannot open the fame menu. I don't even see where I would click for it. The little bar to expand and see my fame isn't there either. Every thing else in the game is working fine, not even running slow. I do have mods but I've removed them and tried that, before replacing them. I download the patch update from here and attempted to fix it that way but nothing changed, minus being able to change CC hair color. I can't find answers anywhere else. Any ideas? I'd like to avoid having to reinstall because it took 5 hours last time and our internet company gives us limited data before they jack our rate waaaay up per gb over our limit

Go to Documents\Electronic Arts and move The Sims 4 folder to desktop. This will start the game fresh, you can move saves back later. If that doesn't solve the problem, run the validator (in quick scan mode) and post the result here.

Thank you!! It worked <3