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" Denise set the record straight for REDBOOK on everything from her divorce from Charlie Sheen, her relationship with Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear, and putting her kids on her reality show. We&amp;#039;re giving you an online-only peak at all the great juice (and pictures!) that didn&amp;#039;t make it into the magazine. You can even  print out a coupon  and get a dollar off the June 2008 issue with Denise on the cover. Read the extras from our interview with Denise here: --&amp;amp;gt;  Take a look at the snapshots that Denise shared with REDBOOK of her daughter Sam&amp;#039;s fourth birthday: Pics of Denise and her girls. Tell us what you think about Denise:   Will Denise&amp;#039;s decision to let cameras film her life help her set the record straight?  Do you think reality TV provides valuable insight into people&amp;#039;s real lives, or is it just an excuse for shameless self-promotion?     Print out your $1-off coupon for the REDBOOK June 2008 issue:  June Coupon  Were there periods when you believed Charlie&amp;#039;s and your relationship could work?  Yes. Like with any disintegrating relationship you always have those moments when you forget about the bad. Then, of course, I discovered I was pregnant with Lola.  Was that scary or hopeful?  I was happy because I loved being a mother, but I was also terrified. Deep down, I knew we weren&amp;#039;t going to make it. Charlie was happy, though, and that made me feel a little better. But I still ended up filing for divorce when I was six months pregnant. That was the hardest day of my life.  Was there a sense of relief when you did finally file?  I remember the day. I called my mom crying and I said to her, &amp;quot;I escaped the insanity.&amp;quot; And that&amp;#039;s how I felt, that I had been trapped.  Do you think that there is a false perception out there that you&amp;#039;re a seductress?  Well, of course, those are only parts I&amp;#039;ve played in movies. It&amp;#039;s funny; it&amp;#039;s taken me a long time to look at myself as a business from which I make my money. I know that when I did Playboy magazine five months after I had Sam, I was selling a sexy image. At home, I don&amp;#039;t think of myself as sexy. I scoop up dog poop and clean up my kids&amp;#039; vomit when they&amp;#039;re sick. I wake up looking disheveled and throw on a pair of sweats while I make their breakfast. I hope to have a husband who thinks that&amp;#039;s sexy, but that&amp;#039;s not the perception people have of me. They see me on a magazine cover stealing someone&amp;#039;s husband or wearing very little clothes in a movie\u2014but that&amp;#039;s just an image. And I&amp;#039;m made my money selling that image for better or worse.  Can you play the wholesome girl next door?  I&amp;#039;ve tried to play that girl. I&amp;#039;ve battled with my agents about that and they say, &amp;quot;People don&amp;#039;t see you as the type of girl who has boyfriend problems.&amp;quot; And even when I say, &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;ve had those problems,&amp;quot; unfortunately, that&amp;#039;s just the way it is. I&amp;#039;m the bitchy girl who steals husbands. I&amp;#039;m finally getting to a place where that&amp;#039;s okay if that&amp;#039;s my niche.   Is part of your goal with your reality show to show the world your other sides?  This show is a great opportunity for people to really see me for who I am. And if they want to say, &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s still that bitch that stole someone&amp;#039;s husband,&amp;quot; then so be it. At least they&amp;#039;ll say, &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s the bitch that stole someone&amp;#039;s husband, but she likes dogs and has three pot-bellied pigs.&amp;quot; At least they will be able to see that I have different layers.  Here&amp;#039;s a sneak peak of what you&amp;#039;ll get in the magazine. Pick up your copy and see what else Denise has to say about Charlie, the new show and more! Issues hit newsstands May 13: Do you think that Charlie and the people who say you&amp;#039;re exploiting your children are just trying to protect them? If Charlie and I had decided together to keep our kids away from the media, I would understand where he&amp;#039;s coming from now. But we made the decision as a couple not to shield our children.  You started dating Richie Sambora a few months after filing for divorce, and were accused of breaking up your friend Heather Locklear&amp;#039;s marriage\u2026 I was no longer friends with Heather months before Richie and I got together. I don&amp;#039;t want to say what caused the split, but she and I weren&amp;#039;t even speaking then.  What&amp;#039;s Charlie&amp;#039;s involvement with the kids now? He has visitation rights, but I&amp;#039;m raising them. This is their home. Charlie and I are so conflicted, I know it has to confuse the girls. I threw a birthday party for Sam a few weeks ago and sent their dad an invitation, and he didn&amp;#039;t show up. Then at the last minute, he decided to throw her a birthday party the day before at his house. I emailed him asking if he wanted me to help get a list of her friends together, but he didn&amp;#039;t invite one of them, just kids of people he knows. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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