Isabelle: I would think it would really support your back as well…

Brooke: Everything really. It supports your belly; it helps your uterus go back to its pre-pregnancy size quicker. It helps take the inches off fast, but aside from all that, it just feels good to support all that baggy skin that we all have after a baby. And Baboosh is a French little cute term, like Cutie Patootie. Baboosh is a name we call Rain. And it has the double “B” like Brooke Burke, so we trademarked the name, and started Baboosh Baby.

But it wasn’t so much about making Tauts and selling them; my intention was really to create a network for women. I blog on the site, and launched it with this hysterical image of me covered in puke from Rain at one fabulous Fourth of July party. I want to keep it real. It’s not just about being a celebrity mom, and a product and a business; I want to talk about all the pros the cons, the good the bad and the uglies of motherhood.

Isabelle: We love doing that on PoshCravings, too! There’s such strength in the network of mothers.

Brooke: It’s incredible! I’m no expert, but I’m having my fourth child, and I’ve learned some things along the way that are helpful and that have made pregnancy and motherhood easier. I love blogging about it all.

You know after Rain [was born], David and I went on vacation to Mexico and we were captured by the paparazzi, and suddenly, these bikini pictures were everywhere. All of my interviews became about fitness and how I got back into shape. So I thought -- you know what? I’m going to tell the American women about this belly wrap because I know it works, and we can give ourselves as women the best shot [at post-partum fitness]. It’s that simple!

Isabelle: I just think it’s a great, great idea -- and I love the idea of bringing in the insight from mothers all over the world, who all have culturally specific things they do post-partum.

Brooke: The more women I talk to, the more women who tell me their mother, their grandmother had done this. And in the vain society we’re in, we’re not doing it?  I thought, “This doesn’t make any sense!”

Isabelle: No kidding! (laughing)

Brooke: I do want to say one thing though. There is such pressure put on us now today physically, especially in the [entertainment] industry. I always tell women to set reasonable goals, and not to put too much pressure on themselves.

When you become a mother, you make that sacrifice, who knows what’s going to happen? Give yourself the best shot. Know that this is something good for you; it really feels good in the support it gives abdominally. It works.

Isabelle: Clearly it does…looking at the pictures of you on your website, I didn’t look that good pre-pregnancy, and here you’ve had three babies!

Brooke: (Laughing) Aw, thank you.