[1] 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.
Quill & Quire said the book was a "series of tired clichés about parenthood.
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.
[10] 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.
[12] 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.