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every once in a while someone will come up to gabby reese and ask her what she's been up to the pasts of marriage, being a mom and her words, serving her man. if you were alive you remember the spikes, the photos, the ridiculously cut body, gabby reese is known for being fierce, but in her new book she's also candid about how a marriage that started off floating down the river almost ended in divorce. >> so it's perfect, perfect wedding, everything's perfect, perfect jobs in perfect places. >> you look perfect. >> correct but that's the whole point of the book which is the happily ever after. maybe what's typical is that you slam into a wall but then what are you going to do when you do get to that wall? >> reporter: for gabby, part of that wall was her husband's moodiness, which she found hard to confront. >> i was putting her in a position she had these things she wanted to express and not expressing them so you get this buildup over time. >> reporter: gabby and laird worked through their problems and 17 years later settled into their own version of paradise, which is all the brigh