Anyone who watches home decor shows knows Candice Olson as the tall, blond designing dame who can crack jokes -- often at her own expense -- while coming up with fabulously appointed spaces on television's Divine Design.

She's definitely a celeb in certain Toronto circles. Whenever the 41-year-old mom takes one of her two kids in for a checkup, women at the doctor's office are more than happy to let her hold court as she jokes about the craziness of raising children, having a husband and doing a television show.

"The show is much bigger in the U.S., which is actually kind of a treat because I can go to the liquor store in my hockey pyjamas and not have it reported here," she said from her office.

She tells the story of one of her crewmen, Chico Garcia, who was on a plane beside Evander Holyfield. A smiling flight attendant walks down the aisle to the pair with her autograph book in hand and Holyfield gets ready to sign. Sure enough, she slaps the book in front of Garcia.

In addition to taping the fifth season of the series, which airs on the W network as well as HGTV, and creating a line of furniture, fabric, carpet, lighting, wallpaper and linens, Olson has put together designing tips available on Proctor & Gamble products in Wal-Mart, which will contribute to breast cancer research.

"I'm not just doing sort of the Charlie's Angels endorsement. I'm actually stupidly doing all the design work on this," she said, adding that she often works 16-hour days. No small feat, as her youngest is 8 months old.

"It's a really, really, hectic, crazier-than-ever time," she said. "The idea of a third child, when I mentioned it to my husband, he just said 'Are you on crack?' and then Googled self-vasectomy dot com."

"We actually had to do two completely different edits," said Olson of Divine Design being picked up by the U.S. network. HGTV is based in Knoxville, Tenn. -- the heart of the U.S. Bible Belt. "Not that ours is hard-core porn ... W Network, they love that sort of stuff, but we toned it down for the States."

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