Rebecca Eckler

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Rebecca Eckler is a Canadian writer of columns and blogs about motherhood, and is author of two books on the same subject, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be (2004), and Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, (2007). As of 2016, she has authored five further, that latest of which is The Mommy Mob: Inside the Outrageous World of Mommy Blogging (2014).

Early life and education[]

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Career[]

As columnist and blogger[]

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Eckler was employed by the National Post from 2000 to 2005, when she was among a number of staff let go by the CanWest newspaper chain.^{[citation needed]}

From March–December 2006, Eckler wrote "Mommy Blogger", a weekly freelance piece in The Globe and Mail, appending to this set of blogs a departing blog on May 2007.^[1] From 2003 until April 2008 she wrote Post City's Shopgirl column.^{[citation needed]}

Eckler began writing bloc post appearing periodically in the Canadian periodical, Maclean's, in 2008, which has continued through 2016.^[2]

Eckler's work also appeared in Mademoiselle.^{[citation needed]}

Eckler was the host of the short-lived television show Modern Manners,^{[when?][citation needed]} and has appeared on CTV^{[citation needed]} and CBC television.^{[citation needed]} She has also worked for Global television as a reporter.^{[citation needed]}

As book author[]

Eckler became pregnant with her daughter, Rowan Joely, on the night of her engagement party, and published the 2004 book Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be about her first pregnancy.^{[citation needed]} The book received mostly negative reviews.^[3]

In April 2007, Eckler publisher her second book, Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator, which chronicles her first two years of motherhood. Quill & Quire said the book was a "series of tired clichés about parenthood."^[4] Wiped! has otherwise received negative reviews in Canadian dailies.^{[citation needed]}

Eckler published Blissfully Blended Bullshit with Dundurn Press in 2019, on managing life with a blended family.

Controversies[]

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Eckler's writing has elicited controversy. For instance, there was international coverage of the responses to her blogging about her decision to leave her 10-month old infant to join her fiancé for the duration of a celebrity golf tournament in Mexico.^[5] Responses to her book and blog content have frequently included assessments of writing from privilege, shallowness and immaturity, and self-justification of non-traditional decisions.^[5][6]

Eckler's blog, NinePoundDictator, prompted the creation of a parody blog, NineGramBrain,^[when?] which was noted in The Toronto Star,^{[citation needed]} a site that appeared until December 2007.^{[citation needed]}

In mid-2007, Eckler filed a lawsuit against Universal Studios, alleging copyright infringement for similarities between her book and the 2007 comedy film Knocked Up.^[7][8] Judd Apatow, the movie's producer and director, said the book and movie were "very different."^[7] As of this date,^[when?] the lawsuit had not settled.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[]

Eckler's home was referenced in the April 2007 edition of Canadian House and Home.^[9]

In 2007, Eckler participated in a charity auction for the magazine The Walrus, paying $7,000 for the right to have a character in Margaret Atwood's novel The Year of the Flood named after her.^[10]

References[]

Further reading[]

• Eckler, Rebecca (2009-09-23). "Margaret Atwood didn't kill me". Maclean's.
• Fenn, Anne (2011-02-15). "If you can't tame 'em, emasculate 'em [Review of How to Raise a Boyfriend]". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
• Wolfe, Mitch (2014-04-27). "Why Is This Writer Hated By So Many Mommy Bloggers?". The Huffington Post Canada. Retrieved 2016-07-17.

External links[]

• NinePoundDictator - Author's blog