While the accent’s basically gone, I am a small town Canadian girl who loved guys with big trucks, Crispy Crunch chocolate bars, and walks in the woods. I was raised by a teacher mother and pharmacist father who divorced. While I enjoyed summers at the lake, most of my school years were spent feeling misunderstood for my expression, my enthusiasm, my quirks. After receiving encouragement from my grandmas, I found the courage at 19 years old to hop on my Uncle Phil’s semi to live my dreams in Hollywood. While I was brave enough and talented enough, I didn’t have a work visa so the only job I could find was working in Japan.

This exploded into four years as a successful model, dancer, and spokesperson on TV, magazine covers, runways, billboards, movies and music videos. I arrived with $40 and lived in dirty home shared with 14 other foreigners. Year four I was making more money than my parents combined. It was there I met my first husband, a tall, dark and handsome multimillionaire. I followed him to NYC where we married. I graduated cum laude from Columbia University and worked for CNN yet I was dying inside. While I loved him, in hindsight I don’t really think I knew what love was and I was afraid to pass up a great guy and a picture perfect life. As I became a deeper, more sensual and empowered woman, I was no longer a fit for the relationship and we divorced.

A few years later, I had bought my own condo and was working as a life coach yet couldn’t seem to make a tumultuous relationship work when I found out my mom had cancer. It all happened so fast. In 10 days she was gone, and the next weekend I got pregnant at my sister’s wedding. Since I couldn’t save her, I tried to save the relationship. This too ended in divorce, single motherhood and I hit rock bottom.

The journey to regain my confidence, self trust, and self love resulted in a workable relationship with my former husband, a flourishing relationship with my son, and my successful career as a Sexy Mom Expert. Not only am I a regular on Leeza Gibbon’s LeezaLIVE and national show Hollywood Confidential, I am her official Life Coach for Dancing with the Stars. I Host my own radio show How Mama Got Her Groove Back and I’m about to launch my second radio show Sexy Single Mama~Redefined. I’m a professional Speaker, Author, and Coach. I even tried out for the Hottest Mom in America reality show! Bottom line is that by taking really good care of myself, getting out of my head and into my heart, and by stopping my addiction to being a frustrated victim to my circumstances, my life is magical and I feel radiant. This is my wish for you. Nourish yourself. You deserve it.

All my love, Alana