My Seven Sons and How We Raised Each Other

<B>Soap star Don Diamont''s most interesting storyline to date is being the real-life father and ringleader of his seven rambunctious boys.</B><br>Called a "daytime deity" by <I>Soap Opera Digest</I>, Don Diamont is best known as the dashing publishing titan with steel abs, "Dollar Bill Spencer," on the most-watched daytime drama in the world, The Bold and the Beautiful. <br><br>But all of that takes second place to his most important role to date: father to seven boys. <br><br>By turns hilarious and poignant, <I>My Seven Sons and How We Raised Each Other</I> is a family memoir for our time. Don writes with openness and courage about the ways his family came together: by marriage, divorce, the death of his sister, and marriage again. Today''s blended families might look different from the households of even a few decades ago, but the first dates, first cars, busting curfew, talking back, grounding, broken hearts, laughs, tears, and the love are the same. <br><br>From his childhood growing up in LA, to his <I>Zoolander</I> phase as a model in both Paris and Los Angeles, to the iconic place he now occupies in daytime television, Don also gives us a glimpse into a life that at times could have been scripted for a soap opera. And, with brutal honesty, he tells of the personal devastation he suffered after the deaths of his father, brother, and sister. <br><br><I>My Seven Sons</I> is required reading for everyone who is a parent, and all those who have one.