Veggies Are High on Her List--and So Is Ice Cream

Oh, what Chuck Norris and the whole crew on “Walker, Texas Ranger” (CBS) haven’t been doing to work around Sheree J. Wilson’s pregnancy.

To hide her belly, they’ve filmed her character, Alex Cahill, behind couches, desks, briefcases and hats. They even wrote an episode in which Cahill and Walker went undercover as an expectant couple.

Wilson, 38, and her husband, Paul De Robbio, are expecting their second child Sunday.

The show has been on temporary location in Santa Fe, N.M., where Wilson planned to be as well, but Norris put his boot down. He told her that she shouldn’t be flying, that she didn’t have her regular doctors in New Mexico, that she should just stay home in Dallas and have a healthy baby, and then return to work in September.

“I argued with Chuck for about five minutes and realized he was right. I should be home nesting,” Wilson said with a laugh on Friday during a phone conversation after a relaxing massage. “I’m 1 centimeter dilated and ready to have this baby.”

This baby will be a boy, Nicholas Francesco De Robbio.

Question: What exercises are you doing?

Answer: Walking. I think it’s one of the best exercises, period. It’s low impact and has the same benefits as running or jogging if you walk briskly. When I’m home, my two dogs and I head out when the sun’s coming up and we meander around for 30 minutes. Then I come home and jump on a StairMaster for 30 minutes.

Q: Not to sound like your mother, but you’re not worried about overdoing it?

A: The doctor did caution me not to go great guns because you should never overheat when you’re pregnant. That can bring on contractions or a miscarriage.

That’s one of the reasons I love to do yoga while I’m pregnant--the stretching, breathing and meditation. It just becomes about you and this little being inside your body. The thing I need to be more careful about is to find a half-hour to stop, lay down, put my feet up. That even helps your emotions. Sometimes you get so tired you become fragile. You need to close your eyes and take time out.

Q: Has your diet changed any?

A: I normally eat healthy--that’s the way I was raised--so my diet doesn’t change that much. The only thing different is, I drink milk, eat smaller meals and more often, take prenatal vitamins and extra vitamin C and calcium. I have fresh fruits, cereal and juice in the morning. Then a few hours later I’ll have a banana or a yogurt or a muffin. I have at least one salad every day. And I eat tons and tons of greens. I’m just one of those weird persons who loves vegetables.

Q: What do you about dinner?

A: I just try to vary my meals. Fish one day, chicken the next. Asparagus today; tomorrow, green beans; carrots, the next day; and then peas. When we sit down to the dinner table, instead of my husband and me having a glass of wine, now my son and I have a glass of milk and I’ll have water too. I’m more thirsty than normal--just can’t stop drinking water.

Q: Any cravings?

A: Ice cream. After we go to bed and I’m fine for the night, Paul will come in with two little dishes of ice cream. He says, “I thought the baby wanted it,” and I say, “Basically, you’re using me as the excuse so you can have one yourself.” He says, “That’s right.”

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