Ricki Lake, JR Says, "hard To Beat" The "Dancing"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It was on the top of the rankings on the television contest "Dancing With the Stars" several times, but Ricki Lake still do not think it will end up with the mirror ball trophy. The winner, she believes, will JR Martinez.

"The heroes of the war will be difficult to overcome. This is a better dancer than me," he told Reuters the lake. "Let me win, but if I'm in second place, all right."

Lake, who exploited the role played in the 1988 John Waters film "Hairspray" as part of a successful career as a talk show host, is a roll TV dance competition. He lost over 20 pounds, went from size 10 September, almost all of 4, and says he has newfound respect for professional dancers fishermen.

"These are machines," she said, "If you look at my body, I look like a dalmatian, I am bruised from head to toe. I'm falling apart in some respects."

But all this has paid off. Lake began slowly in the first week, but the head of the leaderboard in his second show. She and professional partner Derek Hough has always impressed the judges since then with a tango, and in another week, a quickstep which both scored a 29, just one point less than a perfect 30th

But Martinez, a drama of Iraq war veteran actress and day was not far behind, and in fact, he and his partner Karina Smirnoff performed consistently ahead of the pack.

Lake said his favorite dance so far has been a space of three weeks, which she describes as a celebration of love after meeting a new man, Christian Evans, who met over a year. She announced their engagement in August.

New "business arising"

The lake is also a new project to begin on November 8, "The more the business of being born," a continuation of the DVD of his documentary series, "Business of being born," which he executive produced with director Abby Epstein.

The original DVD looked like childbirth and maternity care in the United States and explore the options for women are giving birth naturally.

Lake, 43, has two son, ages 14 and 10 and gave birth to a hospital in the first game before the election by natural birth next time.

"I wanted to have more control of my body. It is not necessarily better than others, even though I felt much more power in the second," he said. "After that I wanted to do a project that spoke of" things.

Lake called the reaction of the first DVD "incredible", but not profitable. She said the money was not the goal, and that DVDs have helped many women find natural childbirth.

"More companies to be born" is a DVD set that on a four-disc, look through the eyes of a midwife of the Tennessee Farm and pioneering midwife Ina May Gaskin.

Second and third DVD any device moms stars like Cindy Crawford, Gisele Bundchen and Alanis Morissette, and explore options such as the use of doulas, who provide non-medical support, and birthing centers, and cesarean delivery. Fourth DVD offers the possibility of vaginal birth after cesarean.

"There are many misconceptions: that (natural birth) is dangerous, that the midwives are not trained or they are trained in natural birth," said Lake. "The idea is to overcome a lot of fear out there. "

More information www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com.

(Reporting by Chris Michaud)

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