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Patricia Heaton on raising four boys

cbbauthor — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:22:31 +0000

On Everbody Loves Raymond and on her upcoming FOX comedy Back to You, Patricia Heaton‘s characters have daughters — a refreshing departure for the 49-year-old with four sons at home.

It’s nice to have a girl thing going on. I’ve got four boys at home, so this summer was all Transformers, paint ball and air guns.

Patricia and her husband David Hunt are parents to Sam, 13, John Basil, 12, Joseph Charles, 10, and Daniel Patrick, 8. But when asked to list their ages, the actress joked,

Eight, 10…I have no idea [laughs]. Eight, 10, 12 and 13. It’s so much fun to watch them. They’re getting to the age where we’re almost able to watch movies together, which I’m so happy about.

The boys love spending time with their mom too. While "they could care less" that Patricia is an actress, the four of them do care about her workload.

When I did a pilot for ABC last year, my third son was upset that I was going back to work. I said, ‘We’re just shooting a pilot. It might not be any good. And he said, ‘It’s going to be really good, and you’re going to be working again.’

Patricia is working nowadays on Back to You, which premieres Wednesday at 8:00, but luckily for her sons, the hours are not bad at all.

The hours were so short nobody even noticed I was gone!

Source: OK!, September 24 issue, pg 34-35

Dayna Devon opens up about her tummy tuck

Sarah — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:50:17 +0000

As anyone who ever had ‘two kids under two’ knows, back-to-back pregnancies take a huge toll on your body, and — as mom to Emmi Reese, who just turned 2 last Sunday, and 8-month-old Cole Brent — Dayna Devon knows the consequences well. Although she was able to shed the 24 lbs she gained with each pregnancy by 6-months postpartum, EXTRA host Dayna tells the Sept. 17 issue of People, on newsstands now, that she was left with belly flab that simply wouldn’t budge.

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

Patricia Heaton and family at Simpsons premiere

Sarah — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:21:01 +0000

Actress Patricia Heaton, 49, and her husband David Hunt brought their four sons — Sam, 14, John Basil, 12, Joseph Charles, 10, and Daniel Patrick, 8 — to the premiere of The Simpsons Movie on Tuesday evening.

Photos by Flynet; Bauer Griffin.

Patricia Heaton snoops on son's emails

Natalie — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:30:00 +0000

Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton admitted that she keeps tabs on her oldest son, Sam, 13, by reading his email and text messages.

She said, "I think he is [interested in girls] and the only way I know this is because I check his emails. When he goes to sleep I get his cell phone and check his text messages. They don’t talk to me about anything. They’re boys. ‘How was school?’ ‘Fine.’ ‘What happened?’ ‘Nothing.’" She adds, jokingly, "And then a parent will call and say, ‘Did you hear about the stabbing on the playground?’ And I’m like, ‘Why didn’t you tell me about the stabbing on the playground?’"

She has three other children with husband David Hunt – Dan, 8, Joseph, 9, and John, 10.

Source: Contact Music

Thanks to CBB Reader Mary Beth.

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