The Hellcats actress bared it all for Allure’s annual Nude Issue.  Ashley said “I’ve always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me. The ‘believe’ tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.”

Ashley’s ready to shed her Disney-child-actress image. “Being in this shoot was me saying, ‘I’m not just the young girl everybody thinks I am. I’m actually a woman,’” she told the magazine.

Other women who posed nude include singer Keri Hilson, actress Kelly Cuoco and Bridget Moynahan.

Gisele Bundchen is getting mothering advice from the unlikeliest of people: her husband’s ex!

Bridget Moynahan has put any bitterness aside to help Tom Brady’s new lady enter the world of mommy hood. The two women gabbed for more than three hours at Bridget’s Pacific Palisades, California home on July 2.

“Gisele had been reaching out to Bridget for some time now, with little success,” an insider tells Star. “But Bridget finally realized it was time to set aside their differences for the sake of the kids.”

The power to forgive is important in a mom!

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Bridget Moynahan takes her young son John Edward (dad is Tom Brady) for a walk in Pacific Palisades. Bridget is set to star in the new movie “Ramona and Beezus”.

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Bridget Moynahan dreaded life as a single mother and found the birth of her son “frightening”.

The former Sex And The City star, 37, gave birth to John Edward Thomas Moynahan in Los Angeles in August last year.

Moynahan found out she was pregnant just weeks after splitting with American football star Tom Brady after a four year relationship. Weeks later, Brady went public with new love Gisele Bundchen.

And Moynahan admits the prospect of becoming a single mother was tough.

She tells the July issue of Harper’s Bazaar, “I’m not sure anyone – and I could be wrong in this – grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom. When you’re suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you’re in your 30s, it’s a hard conversation. I’m a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that’s the way I’d be doing this.”

“For a moment, it was hard for me to accept that this was the way I was going to have a family. All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It’s frightening.”

But Moynahan insists she wouldn’t swap her maternal role for anything, she adds, “It’s golden and it’s tough and it was f***ed up. But now I have a child, and it’s the best thing in the world.”

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Recently tied up with the duties associated with single motherhood, Bridget Moynahan was able to sneak out for awhile on Tuesday to earn a little cash for her family-of-two.

Moynahan looked radiant, posing in evening/bath wear on the beach as the photographers worked to make sure that everything turned out just right.

Meanwhile, not too long ago, Bridget did a YouTube interview with actor-comedian pal Sam Harris, who was in the room with her when she gave birth to little John Edward Thomas Moynahan in August.

When Harris asked “What was the most difficult thing about the pregnancy?”, Bridget burst into laughter and replied, “What was the most difficult thing about the pregnancy? You know what was the most difficult thing about the pregnancy!”

Harris told in the video clip that Bridget handled the mess over being dumped for Gisele Bunchen while pregnant with “(aplomb and dignity”.

“She has been a real trooper through all of this,” he said,“Her primary concern all the time is that baby. She’s a mother bear. She loves that baby and will do anything to make sure that things are right for him. I admire her so much.”

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Bridget Moynahan posed this week with 5-week-old son John Edward Thomas Moynahan for the cover of OK! magazine. He looks so cute…..I wonder if Tom has seen him since his birth?