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"  For Brooklyn Decker, the American dream has been very sweet indeed: Discovered in a Charlotte, North Carolina, mall when she was a 15-year-old high school cheerleader (her first big modeling gig was, appropriately, for a prom dress designer), by her nineteenth birthday she was frolicking on the world&amp;#039;s most picturesque beaches for Sports Illustrated. In April 2009, she married tennis star Andy Roddick after two years of dating (he initially made contact after seeing her on her online football show, She Says, Z Says)\u2014a match made in hotness heaven that set the Internet ablaze. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been very lucky,&amp;quot; says Decker, who jumped at the chance to star in ELLE&amp;#039;s Make Better DVD workout series, available now at ELLEmakebetter.com. &amp;quot;Fitness is a huge part of my life, but just like everyone, I have areas I need to work on.&amp;quot; She even took Roddick with her to an early prep session: &amp;quot;I wanted his opinion, as an athlete, if the workout was effective,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It was important to me that he thought it was.&amp;quot;  Decker was equally game to don a different type of suit than the swimwear variety she&amp;#039;s famous for\u2014and scale a Manhattan skyscraper\u2014for the shoot. &amp;quot;Photographers usually want me to be a bombshell,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;so it was fun to do something where I could be masculine and tough, but still sexy. I&amp;#039;m all about transformation.&amp;quot; One thing Decker has never changed, however, is her unusual first name\u2014though she says she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;constantly being asked for identification&amp;quot; to prove it&amp;#039;s the real deal. &amp;quot;As unglamorous as it is,&amp;quot; she says, laughing, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m actually named after a horse. I hear that Brooklyn is becoming a popular name for babies, though, which I&amp;#039;d like to take credit for. But honestly, I think it&amp;#039;s down to the Beckhams.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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