Who:

Teresa Strasser is an Emmy-winning writer (Comedy Central’s “Win Ben Stein’s Money”) and Emmy-nominated television host (TLC’s “While You Were Out”). Radio audiences know her as the co-host of The Adam Carolla Show, syndicated on CBS Radio stations throughout the West Coast.

As a journalist, Strasser is a contributor to the Los Angeles Times and a columnist for The Los Angeles Jewish Journal. Her first-person essays have garnered three Los Angeles Press Club Awards, including Columnist of the Year.

Other television credits include serving as a field correspondent for WNYW-TV’s “Good Day New York,” and for Fox shows “Good Day Live” and “On Air With Ryan Seacrest.” As a host, she has appeared on both cable and deep cable, including “Character Fantasy” (USA) and “TV Watercooler (TV Guide Network). TV writing credits include “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” and “The Chair,” both for ABC.

Strasser has appeared on numerous countdown shows on basic cable, mainly for the E! Network, including “50 Cutest Child Stars” and “101 Celebrity Oops” and has written for the popular magazine features Stars Make Us Laugh (In Touch Weekly) and Fashion Police (Us Weekly). She has also commented on celebrity culture for CNN’s “Headline News” as well as covered the red carpet for The Academy Awards, The Tony Awards and The Emmy Awards.

You may have also caught Strasser dressed in a Christmas tree costume – complete with electrified ornaments and gift box shoes – for CMT’s “50 Merriest Country Music Videos,” which was shot on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year and un-holiest day of her career.

Currently, she can be heard in Los Angeles during morning drive on KABC radio.

Her book, “Exploiting My Baby: A Memoir of Pregnancy and Childbirth” was published by Penguin in 2011.

Why:

After working as a print journalist, in radio and as a TV host, I thought, why not write for free? It’s the future. I’m a content provider now.

That’s right. You could call me a “mommy blogger,” but that would make me feel diminished and lame. Unless it gets me a spot on Dr. Phil or something, than I’m all for it.

When I was pregnant, because I’m the first woman on earth to conceive, I had a lot to say about the experience and felt like cursing when I did so, so I started this blog. Worried people would think I was just exploiting my baby, I decided to buy the domain name. Now, that I have a child, I write about being a working mother. I still enjoy cursing. I still write for newspapers sometimes, but this is where I can write as many words as I want and throw around a few naughty ones just for the fuck of it.