Denise Richards on Reality Show: "I'm in a No-Win Situation"

US Magazine - 7th May 2008

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Denise Richards: Denise Richards says she is in a "no-win situation" with her upcoming reality show.

"If I have my kids on my show, I'm exploiting them," the actress says in the June issue of Redbook. "If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands on mom “ That's why it's very important to me that the girls are part of it."

Richards has been criticized by ex Charlie Sheen and his fiancee Brooke Mueller for including her daughters with Sheen “ Sam, 3, and Lola, 2 “ in her reality show.

"Charlie and I both think it's exploitative and not good," Mueller told Usmagazine.com in February. "But the judge ruled in her favor so there's nothing we can do."

Richards says she doesn't want her kids to "ever to feel torn between" her and Sheen and she once fired a nanny for bashing him in front of their daughters. "Charlie is their dad, so if I insult their father it's an insult to them," she says in Redbook.

On dating, Richards tells the magazine, "I"m 37 years old, divorced with two kids, and my ex-husband is Charlie Sheen.

"I obviously have a lot of crap to get through right now, and I want a partner who understands all of this and still wants to be with me through the journey," she added.

Sheen and Mueller are tying the knot on May 30. Richards' reality show debuts on E! on Memorial Day.

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