Click below to read all about Dayna’s tummy tuck and to see her results!

When I lay down in bed, my loose skin would pool next to me.  I have to stand next to Halle and Angelinaon the red carpet…I did a zillion crunches, ran, lifted weights.  Igot the baby weight off — but I couldn’t get rid of the stomach!  Itreally bothered me.

When Dayna contemplated having a tummy tuck, she needed to look no further than her own husband, plastic surgeon Dr. Brent Moelleken.  Dayna says that she ‘really trusts him,’ however, she added a special touch — ‘I [heart] U, Brent’ on her stomach — to remind him that she wasn’t just any patient.

Brentbecomes very clinical — almost distant — when he’s about to dosurgery. I wanted to relate to him on a different level — not as apatient but as a wife.

Entering Dayna’sabdominal wall via a small incision through her C-section scar — rather than going hip-to-hip — andusing the opening to perform liposuction and tighten her abdominalmuscles, Brent, 47, performed the two-hour surgery — his own ‘hybrid tummy tuck‘ — himself, ‘pulling everything closed like a corset.’  Giving his wife a smooch after surgery, Brent joked,

 I don’t usually kiss patients in the recovery room.

The recovery for the $15,000 surgery was tough — leaving Dayna a "little bit sore" — but not in as much discomfort as she was following her C-sections.  In fact, Dayna said that "not being able to pick up my children for two weeks — and that made me really upset" was the biggest drawback of having the procedure.

In so doing, Dayna, 37, joins the small list of celebrities — including Patricia Heaton and Shar Jackson — who admit undergoing plastic surgery to reclaim their pre-baby bodies; She is skeptical of new celeb moms who credit only "vegetables and walking" for their svelte shape, saying "that’s just not possible."  Now that she is healed, Dayna says she has no regrets about her own decision to go under the knife.

Whenyou get pregnant, so many different things happen to your body, andmost of them you can’t really fix. You know, I had a flat stomachbefore I had kids and I had a lot of battle scars that can’t be fixed, but this is the one thing that can be, and I had theopportunity to do that. Plenty of women are having whatever they needdone. Why not talk about it? 

One of the reasons I wanted to be so open about the fact that Idid this is more and more we see these celebrities and think they snapright back after pregnancy — but this is what they’re doing too.

All I have to do is look at my new waistline and I realize it was worth it! I’m so happy I did it.

You can watch videos of Dayna’s Pre-Op consultation and Surgery day and recovery on People.com. EXTRA is launching its 14th season and 4000th episode next week!

Source: People, September 17th issue, p. 92-94

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When [Cole and Emmi Reese, 22 months] get crabby, I’ll put them in the double stroller and go run.

Her diet includes 1,200-1,300 calorie meals from Fresh Dining, delivered right to her front door.

You can’t eat much healthier than this, as you have all the protein, antioxidants, and good fats that you need.

Meanwhile,Diane, who had a "carb festival" while pregnant with her and husbandSeung Yong Chong‘s son Beckett Mancuso, now 4 months, dropped the 52lbs. she gained in just two months thanks to hiking, yoga and a fruit and vegetable diet – ZonePerfect bars included.

I was in really good shape before my pregnancy and that really helped.

Source: In Touch, July 23 issue, pg 78-80

Dayna is well-aware her children look just like their dad — in May, she told us that she and Brent joke about it.

It’s a case of uterine rental. I got no representation.

Photo by Jen Lowery for Startraks.

Emmi wears Caroline Pedipeds in white — also available in navy — ($29; use code CBB4 for free shipping).

Her dress is Janie and Jack but is sold out.

Cole wears a shirt by Gap, which is also unavailable.

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It was really hard being pregnant because I was basically pregnant for two years and when you’re walking down the carpet with Heidi Klum, who’s a supermodel and pregnant, and not trying to feel competition, that is next to impossible.

Dayna also says it’s difficult raising two kids under the age of two, especially now that Emmi can talk and express herself.

When I was home for maternity leave for my son Cole, I got closer to my daughter and she’s just now at the age where, ‘No, no, no, Mommy, no!’ And it tears you apart. It’s made me question everything in my life. I take it day by day, and make every single moment count.

Source: OK!, June 4 issue, pg. 75-77

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Cole was delivered via c-section two weeks before his due date because Dayna had excessive amniotic fluid. Of her 8 pound, 2 ounce son, Dayna said, "Thank goodness I had a c-section delivery because this is not a baby, he’s a linebacker."  Had he gone two weeks more, he might have weighed as much as a pound more.

The baby had some fluid in his lungs and is supposed to go home today. Dayna said, "Brent and I are grateful he’s doing so well, even though the first couple days were stressful. His big sister Emmi doesn’t quite get it yet, but we are now going to be a happy family unit of four."

Unfortunately, this wasn’t Dayna’s first stressful birth – Emmi was born by emergency c-section in the middle of the night in September 2005.

Source: People.com

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