American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswoman
Brooke Lisa Burke (born September 8, 1971) is an American television personality, fitness personality, author, actress, and businesswoman. She is known for hosting the E! Network travel show Wild On! (1999–2002), CBS' Rock Star (2005–2006), and TV Lands' She's Got the Look (2010). After winning the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, Burke served as co-hostess of the show from season ten to season seventeen (2010–2013). In 2017, Burke launched "Brooke Burke Body", a fitness app with workout videos featuring her.
I just love the world of photography.
I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.
I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.
A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!
I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.
I hardly ever go out when I'm home.
I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.
I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.
There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.
I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!
When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!
I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.
Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.
There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.
My children keep me real and keep me honest.
Coming from the modeling industry I have to exercise a lot, but I do enjoy it... I don't want to put my swimsuit on if I'm not fit.
I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.
I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've got my 'Barely Brooke' swimsuit line with Venus USA and my new calendar is coming out.
In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.
I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.
Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true.
EA called my agency and made us an offer and I was really enthusiastic about this, really excited to do it. I had Need for Speed: Underground already, the first one. And I'm a bit of a gamer, and definitely car enthusiast, so I've done a lot of things to my cars that people can do in this game. Everything from after-market kits to styling them, exteriorly with wheels, rims, and kits. You name it I have some fun doin' that.
I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
To me, sweat is workout bliss.
I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
I'm living the best life that I could ever be living.
I think I'm a really hands-on mom.
I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.
I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy, funky music like Maxwell, Angie Stone, R&B...In my CD player, I've probably got Maxwell, Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, and kid music...maybe some AC/DC. I mean a little bit of everything. It depends on what I'm doing.