This month Elisabeth Hasselback is on the cover of Fitness magazine in a bikini. She did this despite having a baby just six months ago. This was her second child. When you look at the photo there does not appear to be any difference between her and an 18 year old girl with no kids. This is incredibly misleading to the public. Oh, I have no doubts that Elisabeth looks something close to this. She does after all sell herself for a living basically and so needs to look good. Further she makes well over a million bucks a year and has access to trainers 24/7. For this shoot she worked out at least twice a day every day for six weeks.What? You can’t find the time in your schedule to work out twice a day for several hours each time. Well why don’t you hire some people to look after your kids, feed your significant other and run all your errands while you just work out and get ready for your cover shoot. Oh, and according to Elisabeth she didn’t diet at all, so you don’t need to worry about that at all.

In the article, the editors and Elisabeth make it seem like it is all manageable for everyone to do and that you to will have the perfect body after just six weeks of hard work. That is all crap of course and it can rarely be done. They want you to believe it can be done so that way you will but the magazine and buy the products that are advertised in the magazine. If they have to stretch the truth to get it done so be it. In fact, it really might even be lying if you take into account the fact they airbrushed and photoshopped the hell out of this photo. No imperfections anywhere on her body? Wow, how did she manage to do that? Does she have a product to sell for that?

You would think Elisabeth would be the type of person who would be sensitive to this and try and be more real, but the closest she comes in the article is this quote. “I finally told myself … ‘I’ve got some curves, I’ve got a bubble butt, but I don’t mind, because it’s what powers me forward when I run.’

Oh, gee, that’s great. I guess she preferred the flat ass she had before and that everyone who has a bubble butt or any curves should be ashamed unless of course you are a runner and then it is fine. Elisabeth and every person they throw up on Shape or Fitness always makes it seem as if you can be just like them if you would only do what the article says and if you buy the products in the magazine. What they are selling is false and misleading and just wrong. It is designed to make you feel inadequate and miserable and that is what work is for. It shouldn’t also have to bombard you from the checkout stands.

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck is pictured at the ‘My Little Pony Tea Party’ at Madison Square Garden, with her daughter Grace, 3, sister-in-law Sarah Hasselbeck and Sarah’s kids Annabelle and Mallory.

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Turns out she and her quarterback hubby, Tim, are huge Bret Michaels fans and love his ’80s band, Poison. “They were talking about how Tim’s brother, Matt, took him to see a Poison concert for his bachelor party and how after the show they met Bret backstage,” said a spy at the Conde Nast Hot List party. Also at the party was San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman, who hit on “America’s Next Top Model” winner Jaslene Gonzalez and offered to fly her to Las Vegas with him for the weekend.

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View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 30, back from maternity leave last week, her husband, Arizona Cardinals’ Tim Hasselbeck, 29, and their children Grace Elisabeth, 2 ½, and Taylor Thomas, 9 weeks, were spotted out for a walk in NYC on Saturday, January 12th.

Photos by INF.

Grace is wearing Kenneth Cole Reaction Crossbow II ($40).

Tim pushes a Mountain Buggy Urban Double ($700).

Elisabeth Hasselbeck took her newborn son, Taylor Thomas, to work Monday. It was her first day back on ABC’s “The View” since going on maternity leave more than two months ago. She gave birth to Taylor Thomas at an Arizona hospital Nov. 9.

Hasselbeck and co-host Sherri Shepherd took turns holding him. He cried at first, but was generally well behaved on his first-ever live TV appearance. The camera focused on his face several times as the audience oohed and ahh-ed.

Hasselbeck, 30, joked that she calls herself “the dairy queen” because she’s breast-feeding.

“You don’t even look like you were pregnant,” Shepherd told her. “You are so tiny.”

Hasselbeck, wearing a waist-concealing dress with a floral pattern, responded: “Wear a print.”

The conservative “View” co-host and her husband, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, also have a 2-year-old daughter Grace.

Monday’s edition of the daytime chatfest included a full hour of “Hot Topics.” When the conversation turned to politics, co-host Joy Behar joked that Taylor Thomas should leave the stage because things could get uncomfortable for him.

View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 30, returned to the table today, joined by son Taylor Thomas, 8 weeks.

I thought I’d bring a little testosterone to the table today…he eats all day long. He’s like 12 lbs now, I think. He’s just constantly on me — I call myself the Dairy Queen.

Sherri Shepherd interjected,

This is true! When Elisabeth walked in the hair and makeup room this morning, her boobs were bigger than mine.

Elisabeth agreed,

They were. At you watch, they’re camouflaged now, but by the end of the hour, they’ll be back. [Taylor] does something sometimes that’s a little scary, I’m not going to lie. [Makes biting motion.] I look down and I’m like, ‘You’re a little animal!’

As for her secret to looking slim even though she hasn’t lost much, Elisabeth says,

It’s prints! Wear a print. They camouflage everything.

I’ll get there. I’m a little frustrated because I have a little injury
in my back, something’s bothering me, and I can’t run –- and we’ve had
really nice weather the last couple of days, and every time I see
someone running I get angry at them because I can’t. But I’ll get there.

Click below for photos of Taylor, interview highlights (differences between boys and girls, having a second child, Tim as a dad, Grace as a sister), and to watch the video.

On husband Tim Hasselbeck, a quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, Elisabeth remarks,

You name it, he does it. He’ll change diapers. He takes Gracie out on daddy-daughter dates.
They’ll go get ice-cream or root beer floats. He really knows how to
make a child feel special.

Speaking of Grace Elisabeth, 2 1/2, she’s very fond of her new little brother.

When
she wakes up in the middle of the night, she’ll say, ‘Taylor, come
here.’ She wants to see him first thing in the morning, she wants to
kiss him good night. She just loves him. It’s a blessing. She’s such a
good big sister.

But you know, my doctor told me…to keep them at a safe distance
and never leave them alone together, because literally siblings love
each other to death sometimes. She loves him so much she just wants to
put something right up to his face, or hug him so hard.

Having a second child has completely changed Elisabeth’s outlook.

When they say it rocks your world? It rocks your world, having a
second. What is going on!? When does this stop?! … This is the first
time I’ve brushed my teeth in two months, it was special for today.

And
I’m constantly trying to balance out everybody’s needs. Was I a little
bit of a wife today? Sure. ‘Here’s a cracker, Tim. I’m your wife.’
‘Grace, do you want Goldfish for dinner? Okay, I feel bad, ’cause I’m
paying a lot of attention to Taylor, so Goldfish it is!’ I feel like
I’m constantly trying to be the great equalizer in the home.

But I love
it! I wouldn’t want to be anything else, and wouldn’t want anyone else
doing it for me.

Elisabeth also discussed the differences between having a daughter and having a son.

I don’t know if it’s because he’s a boy, or it’s second child, but I
kind of let him sit up a little more on his own. He seems a little more
sturdy. I’ll go, ‘Look at that chest. He’s strong!’ I’m not
super-sterilizing everything like I was with Grace. [When she was born]
people would walk in and I’d have them put booties on.

[Tim] loves having a boy. There is a difference. But I feel like Taylor’s mine. Grace is his, and Taylor’s mine –- forever.

Source: Red Lasso; OK! Magazine; People

Get your split-screens ready ABC because Elisabeth Hasselbeck is returning to The View on January 7. Lizzy left the morning gabfest in October to give birth to her second child, Taylor. Hopefully in the two-month interim, she also birthed some new opinions because in her absence Sherri “I don’t know if the Earth is round” Shepherd has totally stolen her crazy crown.

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So the token nice blond conservative on “The View,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who recently popped out a baby named Taylor Thomas, has been replaced by guest host and token uber-bitch blond conservative ABC Radio talk show host, Laura Ingraham. Come now, ABC, cross-promotion aside: Surely there are other voices that could also use representation in your little femme-medley. Say, oh, maybe an Asian-American woman, a college-aged student, a Southeast Asian woman, a senior citizen or a dude? Sigh. Instead, we must resign ourselves to listening to Ingraham, who, while not an idiot (unless you’re speaking to Eric Alterman, who thinks she so totally is), is so distasteful that their seething rage at her is probably one of the few things “The View” ladies can agree on.

During yesterday’s show above, Whoopi Goldberg looked like she was seriously contemplating decking Ingraham. We can’t say that we particularly blame her! We especially enjoyed the moment when Ingraham asks, “Do you want to win in Iraq, Barbara?” to which Walters answers “Now, come on,” while looking at Ingraham as though she’s a teenager whose reason has been hormone-hijacked.

During Ingraham’s career at Dartmouth College, which we know a little about, Ingraham routinely avoided patronizing restaurants she suspected employed gay waiters, for fear one of them might breathe on her food, thereby infecting her with AIDS. An awkward habit to explain later, when her brother Curtis came out to her!

While working for the conservative campus paper The Dartmouth Review during the 1980s, Ingraham sent an undercover reporter to secretly tape a meeting of gay and lesbian students, under the auspices of pursuing a follow-the-money story on where a mandatory $100-per-student activities fee went. “The View’s” latest guest co-host then went on to print the names of those students, who had not been made aware a reporter was present.

The piece she then ran denounced the group as “cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.”

In 1997, Ingraham wrote a piece for The Washington Post lamenting that people continue to judge her for her “deeds and misdeeds in college,” and explained the Review story by noting that “The group received college funding but, unlike every other student group receiving a college grant, refused to make public its membership or budget. We wanted to find out how student funds were being spent and to demonstrate the double standard Dartmouth had created by funding the group.”

She also apologized for the Review’s “callous rhetoric,” explaining that since learning of her brother’s sexuality, “my views and rhetoric about homosexuality have been tempered—not because Curtis proselytizes on gay rights, but because I have seen him and his companion, Richard, lead their lives with dignity, fidelity and courage.”

Hmmm. Okay! Standing up for your rights bad! Courageous (and quiet) dignity good! Embedded homophobic tendencies aside, we’re more disturbed by her continual appearance in fraternity basements during Dartmouth’s Homecoming, where she has been known to frighten more than a few frat brothers by out-drinking and out-Republican-ing them into the wee hours.

We’ve been eagerly anticipating this since last April, when Elisabeth Hasselbeck announced that she was preggers.  And now we announce that she gave birth to a baby boy.

The co-host of the View had a 7-pound, 15-ounce boy Friday morning.  She will be announcing the name of the boy this week.  It’s her second child, as she has a two-year-old girl named Grace.

Elisabeth Hasselcrack called into “The View” this morning to reveal the name of her baby boy who was born this past weekend in Arizona. Elisabeth and her husband have named him Taylor Thomas Hasselbeck. She also showed off some pictures of him.

Who knew Hasselcrack was such a Home Improvement fan.

Laura Ingraham was the guest co-host on the show and asked Elisabeth if Taylor was already a registered Republican. You know he is.

Hollywood is rife with celebrities about to become mommies.  And according to a spokesperson for The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is next in line.

The hostess has said that she plans to work all the way up until her due date, which turns out to be November 8th or 9th.  Hasselbeck, who announced her preggers status last April, joked about why she decided to have a child.