Brooklyn Decker reveals why she's anything but a perfect 10!

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Brooklyn Decker Reveals Her Not-So-Perfect Side
Brooklyn Decker Reveals Her Not-So-Perfect Side



When you think of Brooklyn Decker what comes to mind? Yes, she is a beautiful, albeit retired, model turned actress. She's married to retired tennis player, Andy Roddick. She's got a new CBS sitcom "Friends with Better Lives". So far, there's little to make one think her life is anything but perfection. But not so fast. The former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model sat down with AOL.com's Carey Reilly to reveal that she's a friend with just kind of a better life than you, but perfect it is not.

First of all, she's named after a horse, of course. "I'm named after a horse of all things," said Decker. "It's very strange. My parents have a very strange sense of humor. My mom loved the name Brooke and as a joke my dad said 'Let's name her Brooklyn!' and my mom loved it. I had never been to Brooklyn, ended up living there for a couple years." Okay, so the name doesn't have perfect origins, but it'll do!

Second, she says she wasn't the perfect ten model. "I was very lucky Sports Illustrated gave me a chance and loved me but I did not work outside of Sports Illustrated. Truly, I was not a good model. I swear on everything. I've never walked a runway. It's like a best kept secret that I was not, like, a working model. I studied acting for a really long time and I loved it and auditioned and auditioned and just got lucky. The second I started booking things I was like 'Peace out, modeling! You don't like me and I don't like you!'"

Third, the 5'10" stunner says she's got physical imperfections that she shows off with zeal. "I have tingers! Toe-fingers! They're the most disgusting feet you've ever seen in your life. I can spread them apart and grab things. I have tingers and I'm fighting a massive case of chin acne." She showed us both and that still has us questioning her campaign of imperfection.

Lest we go on, Decker is celebrating 5 years of blissful marriage to Andy Roddick, who she says, does a lot of the heavy-lifting in her household especially when it comes to cleaning. "Only because I'm such a slob that someone has to pick up the slack and it's not me. He's usually pretty sloppy but he's like 'You're a disaster so I gotta help a little bit.'"

Decker is now living out her dream job along side stars like James Van Der Beek on their new sitcom "Friends with Better Lives." She's quick to mention that the comedy truly comes from behind the scenes. "We do have great writers. We are very lucky. I feel like that: our writing and our chemistry with the cast... is what makes it."

And one funny retired model with "tingers" too. Watch Brooklyn on "Friends with Better Lives" Monday nights at 8:30 on CBS.

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