Journalism career

Eckler's work has appeared in ELLE

Elle

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, Fashion, Maclean's

Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canadian weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.-History:Founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, a 43-year-old trade magazine publisher who purchased an advertising agency's in-house...

, Lifestyles, Canadian House and Home and Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle (magazine)

Mademoiselle was an influential women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications....

. She was the host of the short-lived television show Modern Manners, and has appeared on CTV

CTV television network

CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

 and CBC

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 television, and on Global television as a reporter.

Eckler was employed by the National Post

National Post

The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...

from 2000 to 2005, when she was among a number of staff let go by the CanWest

CanWest News Service

Postmedia News is a national news agency with correspondents in Canada, Europe, and the United States and is part of the Canadian newspaper chain owned by Postmedia Network Inc.-History:...

 newspaper chain.
The announcement "Rebecca Eckler is pregnant" was headlined by the Post on its front page.

From March 2006 to May 2007, Eckler wrote "Mommy blogger", a weekly freelance piece in the Globe and Mail. Currently Eckler is a columnist for Post City Magazines in Toronto. From 2003 until April 2008 she wrote Post City's Shopgirl column. In May 2008 the column was given to Post City associate editor Karen Aagaard.

Books

Eckler became pregnant on the night of her engagement party and published the 2004 book Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-Be.

Prior to the book's publication, The New York Times published a piece written by Eckler about falling for another man while pregnant with her fiancé's child.

In April 2007, Eckler followed Knocked Up with Wiped! Life with a Pint-Sized Dictator which chronicles her first two years of motherhood.

In mid-2007, she announced in Maclean's

Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canadian weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.-History:Founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, a 43-year-old trade magazine publisher who purchased an advertising agency's in-house...

that she had filed a lawsuit against Universal Studios

Universal Studios

Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

 alleging copyright infringement

Copyright infringement

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 due to alleged similarities between her book and the 2007 comedy film Knocked Up

Knocked Up

Knocked Up is a 2007 American romantic comedy drama film co-produced, written, and directed by Judd Apatow. Starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann, the film follows the repercussions of a drunken one-night stand between Rogen's slacker character and Heigl's just-promoted...

.

Reception

Although reviewed positively on "mommy blogs", Wiped! received mostly negative reviews in Canadian dailies. Quill & Quire

Quill & Quire

Quill & Quire, a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry, was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, but its publisher claims a readership of 25,000...

, Canada's foremost trade/literary magazine, gave the book a particularly scathing review.

Eckler's blog, NinePoundDictator, prompted the creation of a parody blog, NineGramBrain, which was noted in The Toronto Star. The site lasted until December 2007.

In an interview for ParentsCanada magazine, Eckler discusses how she likes to be controversial and is now a single mom who has a regular nanny to do housework.

In 2007, Eckler participated in a charity auction for the magazine The Walrus

The Walrus

The Walrus is a Canadian general interest magazine which publishes long form journalism on Canadian and international affairs, along with fiction and poetry by Canadian writers. It launched in September 2003, as an attempt to create a Canadian equivalent to American magazines such as Harper's, The...

, paying $7,000 for the right to have a character in Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

's novel The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, released on September 22, 2009 in the United States, and September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom...

named after her.

External links

• NinePoundDictator - Author's blog