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February 1, 2011 / 12:53 PM
/ CBS News

NEW YORK (CBS) "Dancing With The Stars" co-host Brooke Burke takes readers behind the scenes in her celebrity life and home with her just published book, "The Naked Mom."
In the 320-page memoir published today by NAL, a part of the Penguin Group, Burke describes what it is like to combine a blended family with a successful TV career and a multimillion-dollar business.
The 39-year-old former model, who has been hosting "Dancing With Stars" since last year and was the Season 7 winner with partner Derek Hough, has a lot to say about the ABC hit show, Hollywood and celebrity life in general.
She even admits that she and Hough did not have the perfect partnership. In interviews about the book she says she came to look at Hough maternally, even making him a lunch when she was fixing brown bags for her own kids.
Burke details her work on Baboosh Baby, a company she started that offers wraps for pregnant women. She honed her writing skills on a blog about her family featured on the company's website.
But the heart of the book is her own blended family with partner David Charvet, a French-born musician and actor. Together, they have four children and a busy family life that Burke mines for her tell-all tome

First published on February 1, 2011 / 12:53 PM

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"Why are you looking at pajamas?" my 7-year-old asked incredulously, as if I were trying to pull something over on her. "You sleep naked."
I quickly scanned the surrounding area in Target to see if anyone had heard, so I could offer them an apologetic smile, but luckily there was no one else in earshot.
While I don't make a point of being naked around my daughters — who are 3 and 7 — I don't make a point of covering up , either.
They know I can't stand the way clothes tug and pull in the night and always strip down at bedtime. If they crawl into my bed after a nightmare or for a snuggle in the morning, they find me in my birthday suit and it's a nonissue.
We shower together, and I don't think twice about a naked dash to the laundry room to find some clean underwear, especially since rural living means the only neighbors I have to worry about are bears and birds.
Though most parents begin covering up more as their kids get older, it's becoming even more important for me to remain comfortable with my naked body in front of the girls. Being naked as a plus-size mom isn't about my boobs or butt; it's about my belly and dimpled thighs. I want to show the girls that no matter what they look like, their bodies are beautiful and deserve to take up space.
Growing up, I rarely saw my parents naked. My mom would change in front of me but always modestly turn her back. If I came to chat with her while she was in the tub, she'd pull a washcloth over her breasts.
Yet I was fascinated by my mom's body, which I thought might give a small peek at what my own might look like as an adult. I looked at her stretch marks and saw glimpses of her dark nipples and wondered whether my body would change in those ways as well.
But I knew there was a major difference between us: My mom was trim, and even as a child I was chubby. She took care to cover up her breasts, butt, and vulva; but even as a kid, I received the message that my soft, doughy stomach was the thing I needed to cover above all else.
My relationship with my body began to change in college. I didn't lose weight, but I found fitness. I realized how strong I am, and I was finally able to detach messages about my worth from a number on the scale. I started sleeping naked, I bought my first two-piece, and I even posed nude .
I felt as if I was reclaiming the love for my body that social narratives around bigger bodies had stolen. When I moved in with the man who would become my husband, I didn't think twice about walking around our apartment naked.
When I became a mother, I loved seeing the comfort my children took in my body. Their favorite place to nap was my cushiony stomach, their tiny infant toes wiggling between the warmth of my thighs, their sweet cheeks resting on my breasts.
Now, those tummy cuddles are rare. When my daughters do crawl on top of me, their limbs reach my knees. I don't know what they'll look like when they're adults, but for now, one daughter is slim-built — like her dad's family — while the other has my thick frame.
It will be an uphill battle to remind them not to compare themselves to others — and to love themselves however they are shaped. Maybe, just maybe, being unashamed about my own body will lay the groundwork for them to have the confidence and self-love I wish I had discovered sooner.

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A Canadian woman proved that mothers are real-life superheroes after incredibly rescuing her pet goose from a bald eagle — while breastfeeding her baby.
“I mean it’s definitely not something you see every day,” Cait Oakley, 31, told Canada’s Chek News of the brave act, which occurred Wednesday evening while the North Saanich resident was at home with her four-month-old daughter.
Per the clip’s caption, the stay-at-home mother of three had “lost three chickens in the last week.” Oakley initially thought the culprit was a hawk until she witnessed her pet Sebastopol goose named Frankie be swooped up by a bald eagle as she was nursing the baby, wearing just underwear at the time.
The dramatic clip, shot by the family’s home security system, begins with Frankie honking hysterically while at the front door of a house. All of a sudden, a bald eagle dive bombs the hapless featherbag and proceeds to fly off with it while Oakley yells “Hey!” repeatedly in the background.
The bird burglar carries its quarry to the driveway before the owner runs out of the house in just her underwear with no top while holding her baby. This prompts the raptor to drop Frankie, whereupon the frightened animal runs back to the house.
Reflecting on the wild goose chase, Oakley exclaimed, “I was in the middle of feeding her, so that’s why I didn’t have a shirt on and was kind of getting ready for the evening.
“I just ran outside and when Mike [her husband] came out he was like, ‘you’re topless.’” she added. “And I’m like yeah, no, I’m very aware. Sorry neighbors.”
Thankfully, Frankie came away from the attack unscathed, the CBC reported. “She’s totally fine — super sassy, as always,” said the interspecies savior, who recently posted a video of herself consoling her pet following the traumatic incident .
TikTok was awestruck by the goose parent’s heroic deed, which Oakley chalked up to her instinctive “fight-or-flight” response.
“Not all heroes wear capes,” gushed one online admirer. “This was awesome.”
“This is absolutely not what I was expecting and I don’t know you but I adore you and want to be your best friend,” fawned another.
Meanwhile, one jokester quipped, “not all heroes wear clothes.”
Others commended Frankie for possessing the wherewithal to run to the door and alert its owner of the danger.
“The way she was calling for you at the door, smart goose,” said one animal fan, while another wrote, “She was hollering at the door trying to warn before the eagle even swooped in.”
“She always alerts us when something bad is in the yard,” wrote Oakley, who ironically bought Frankie to protect the family chickens.
“She’s like my fourth child,” gushed the proud goose mother. “She follows me around the yard … she’ll nip at our clothes for a treat. She’s just such a large presence.”
However, due to the rampant eagle attacks — and perhaps the fact that the chickens’ guard goose nearly became lunch itself — the family has installed netting on the property to ward off future fly-jackings.
Looking back, Oakley says that she’s not too surprised by the incident. “As a mom of three I’m always breastfeeding and it’s so natural, that’s mom life summed up, something is always going on when I’m feeding her and I’m always on the go,” she said.

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