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" On one of those sweltering New York City days when the sidewalk feels like a sauna, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is freezing. Huddled on a chair in her cluttered, shabby-chic dressing room, she wraps herself in a large maroon sweatshirt emblazoned with the name &amp;quot;Tim&amp;quot; \u2014 her NFL quarterback husband, Tim Hasselbeck. It&amp;#039;s the second trimester of her second pregnancy, and hormones are making her body temperature fluctuate wildly. &amp;quot;Last week, I kept dragging everyone to the movies, the diner, the drugstore,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t get cool enough. And now, here I am, bundled up.&amp;quot; But Hasselbeck is accustomed to being out of sync with her surroundings \u2014 and she&amp;#039;s recently handled much bigger chills. As the youngest woman on the popular morning chatfest The View, Hasselbeck, 30, stands out because her opinions \u2014 she&amp;#039;s pro-Bush and anti-abortion \u2014 are often different from those of her more liberal cohosts. She is also a daughter who helped her mom battle breast cancer, a fiercely competitive athlete, a parent who has struggled with health and fertility problems, a reality-TV heroine who ate bugs to stay alive, and a woman who&amp;#039;s worked alongside a notoriously combative colleague. Despite her diminutive stature and delicate beauty, Hasselbeck is not afraid of a fight. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have a problem with conflict,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I&amp;#039;ve been there, believe me.&amp;quot; From Survivor to Stardom Hasselbeck, born in Rhode Island and raised by a lawyer mom and an architect dad, first became known as a competitor on the hit show Survivor. She emerged from the Australian outback in fourth place, after getting by with virtually no food or shelter for 31 days. Though she missed out on the show&amp;#039;s million-dollar prize, the fledgling shoe designer was offered a job hosting a style program on cable. In 2003, she auditioned for and won the job on The View, joining then\u2013den mother Meredith Vieira, Joy Behar, Star Jones, and the show&amp;#039;s creator, Barbara Walters. There, she says, she formed a real friendship with all the women, particularly Jones and Vieira, whom she greatly admires. Then Jones was infamously fired, Vieira left for the Today show, and Rosie O&amp;#039;Donnell joined the coffee klatch. Meanwhile, Hasselbeck, who married college sweetheart Tim in 2002 and gave birth to daughter Grace in 2005, had been diagnosed with celiac disease, a disorder in which the body cannot properly metabolize gluten. Symptoms range from digestive problems to extreme allergic reactions. As she and her husband tried to conceive a second child, Hasselbeck grew dismayed as months passed with no success. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always thought that if you work really hard at something, you can get it,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;But I was faced with the reality that this just wasn&amp;#039;t happening. Especially given my celiac disease, my body tends to shut down when I&amp;#039;m under stress, like when I&amp;#039;m training for a marathon or when I was starving in Australia. So I decided to be kinder to my body. And my mom was always saying, &amp;#039;You should be eating potatoes!&amp;#039; So I ate potatoes \u2014 and yams and anything with soy in it. I did as much as possible, lifestyle-wise, to calm my body. It finally worked. I just hope it isn&amp;#039;t as hard the next time around.&amp;quot; When she was still in high school, Hasselbeck saw her mom endure chemotherapy. &amp;quot;I would like to have three or four kids,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;But my mom got breast cancer at an early age, and I saw firsthand that after chemotherapy, your chances of conceiving just go way down. So that&amp;#039;s always on my mind: I want to have my kids early, because if later on, God forbid, I get....&amp;quot; Her voice trails off, then she tosses her head as if shaking the thought away. &amp;quot;Who knows, right?&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;You never know what&amp;#039;s going to happen.&amp;quot; Indeed, just as Hasselbeck had every reason to celebrate \u2014 the news that she was pregnant was greeted with an explosion of confetti on that day&amp;#039;s episode of The View \u2014 trouble began to brew. Though she and O&amp;#039;Donnell clashed frequently, both insisted they were friends who exchanged e-mails and parenting tips. On May 23, O&amp;#039;Donnell and Hasselbeck argued about the Iraq war; Hasselbeck supports President Bush&amp;#039;s position while O&amp;#039;Donnell staunchly opposes it. The disagreement took a decidedly personal turn when O&amp;#039;Donnell complained that her statements were always twisted by right-wing pundits \u2014 and blasted Hasselbeck as &amp;quot;cowardly&amp;quot; for never defending her. A heated shouting match ensued, and Hasselbeck, her brow furrowed with anger, became visibly shaken. O&amp;#039;Donnell didn&amp;#039;t go to work the next day \u2014 or ever again. Having already announced she would not be returning for another season of The View, she ultimately didn&amp;#039;t return for her final three weeks on the show. (In August, Whoopi Goldberg was named as her replacement.) Later, O&amp;#039;Donnell said she never felt she&amp;#039;d had a real friendship with her young cohost. At the time, Hasselbeck said little about the blowup. Today, she is willing to reveal more. &amp;quot;That day was the start of a lot of stress,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling. I think the fight caught both me and Rosie off guard. I didn&amp;#039;t know there was that much anger, at all.&amp;quot; According to Hasselbeck, what seemed to rile her cohost was the fact that she told O&amp;#039;Donnell to consider why her volatile comments might be misinterpreted by others; O&amp;#039;Donnell felt Hasselbeck should clarify O&amp;#039;Donnell&amp;#039;s positions when asked about them. &amp;quot;I consider myself to be a pretty good friend. But I&amp;#039;m not an enabler,&amp;quot; Hasselbeck says. &amp;quot;I felt I was doing the right thing. The outcome was just sad. And when she didn&amp;#039;t return, it felt so abrupt.&amp;quot; Though months have passed since the incident, Hasselbeck still looks alternately bewildered and wounded when talking about it. &amp;quot;I wish it didn&amp;#039;t bother me,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;But when you invest emotion in a relationship and it ends, it&amp;#039;s traumatic. Suddenly, you&amp;#039;re not friends. And, apparently, to hear her tell it, you never were. I don&amp;#039;t know. It can haunt me forever or I can move beyond it and think, Obviously that didn&amp;#039;t end well.&amp;quot; Looking forward, Hasselbeck sees herself, first and foremost, as a designer who loves to sketch and paint and hopes to create a line of children&amp;#039;s clothing someday. But right now, between doing the show, raising Grace, and attending Tim&amp;#039;s games (he plays for the New York Giants), her artwork is confined to elaborate sidewalk-chalk drawings at the playground: &amp;quot;Tim always says, &amp;#039;Is the chalk for Grace or for you?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; she says, laughing. And with the new baby due in November \u2014 she isn&amp;#039;t finding out the sex of the child \u2014 Hasselbeck knows there&amp;#039;s more chaos to come. Luckily, simple pleasures have always suited her better than a life in the limelight. &amp;quot;Our idea of a big night out is going to the local diner,&amp;quot; she says, brightening at the thought. &amp;quot;Mini golf and ice cream: That&amp;#039;s a perfect evening.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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