Rebecca Eckler

Canadian writer

Rebecca Eckler is a Canadian book publisher and former writer of columns and blogs about motherhood, and is author of two books on the same subject, Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother to Be (2004), and Wiped! Life with a Pint Sized Dictator, (2007). Since 2016, she has written five more books, the latest of which is The Mommy Mob: Inside the Outrageous World of Mommy Blogging (2014).

Eckler was employed by the National Post from 2000 to 2005. She was among a number of staff who's jobs were terminated by the CanWest newspaper chain. From March–December 2006, Eckler wrote "Mommy Blogger", a weekly freelance piece in The Globe and Mail, appending to this set of blogs a departing blog in May 2007. Eckler began writing bloc post appearing periodically in the Canadian periodical, Maclean's, in 2008, which has continued through 2016. Eckler's work also appeared in Mademoiselle.

Eckler became pregnant with her daughter, Rowan Joely, on the night of her engagement party and published the 2004 book Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother to Be about her first pregnancy. The book received negative reviews. In April 2007, Eckler published her second book, Wiped! Life with a Pint Sized Dictator, which chronicles her first two years of motherhood. Quill & Quire said the book was a "series of tired clichés about parenthood." Eckler published Blissfully Blended Bullshit with Dundurn Press in 2019, on managing life with a blended family.

Eckler's writing has elicited controversy. For instance, there was international coverage of the responses to her blogging about her decision to leave her 10 month old infant to join her fiancé for the duration of a celebrity golf tournament in Mexico. Responses to her book and blog content have frequently included assessments of writing from privilege, shallowness and immaturity, and self justification of non traditional decisions.

Eckler's home was referenced in the April 2007 edition of Canadian House and Home. In 2007, Eckler participated in a charity auction for the magazine The Walrus, paying $7,000 for the right to have a character in Margaret Atwood's novel The Year of the Flood named after her.