Moms on 'Dancing With the Stars': 'Put Your Kids First'
Kate Gosselin, Pamela Anderson and Niecy Nash balance motherhood with training.
April 5, 2010— -- The tens of millions of viewers set to tune into the third week of "Dancing With the Stars" tonight include some children whose moms are competing on the show.
What's it like for a famous mother to raise kids and raise the roof on national television? "GMA" special correspondent and former "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Cameron Mathison talked to Pamela Anderson, mother of two, Niecy Nash, mother of three, and Kate Gosselin, mother of eight, to find out.
Anderson, Gosselin and Nash all share the pressures of juggling their "Dancing With the Stars" schedules, while off-camera, raising kids as divorced moms.
"It's definitely a challenge," Gosselin said. "It's a good challenge. This is organizational skills to the max!"
Gosselin became a household name starring in a cable reality TV show with her eight children -- twins and sextuplets.
Her ex-husband, Jon, helps watch their kids in Pennsylvania while she competes on "Dancing With the Stars" in Los Angeles.
But even when Gosselin is home, rehearsing in her basement, she wishes she could spend more time with her children.
"I miss them, regardless," she said. "One day this week during practice I had a little meltdown while we were dancing. And I heard them upstairs. And I just started crying. And I was like, 'I just miss my kids.'"
Pamela Anderson can relate.
"I drop my kids off at school, I go straight to rehearsal and then I pick them up right after rehearsal," she said. "So, juggling everything has been, you know, it's been a challenge, but you always put your kids first and then everything else falls into place."
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