By day she digs up evidence to solve some of the world's craziest crimes, by night there's nothing she fears more than her kid's science homework. For Eva La Rue — CSI: Miami's sultry DNA analyst — splitting time between working on a hit prime-time show and raising seven-year-old Kaya is nothing short of exhausting. La Rue gives the dirt on faux wounds, universal prophets and looking for love as a single mom. — Christina Couch
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CSI: Miami is in its eighth season. That's a hell of a run. Has your daughter ever seen the show? Does she have any idea that her mom deals with fake dead people all day?
I don't let her watch the show because it's a little scary. It's a little dark and people are always dead in the beginning and it's a little gruesome but she does come to the set a lot. The hair and makeup department will always sit her in the chair and give her wounds or black eyes or scrapes so that she can see that it's all pretend. She LOOOOOVES that. The only problem is that she walks around and says, "My mama did this to me." I have to tell her "Hold on a second. That wasn't quite the deal."
You've got CSI going on, you're a full-time mom and you've got music and charity projects on the side. How are you balancing it all?
It's tough. Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth. You feel like you're never quite doing enough or giving 100 percent to one or the other. Something is always going to slide, so you kind of pick your spots. If it's a really important episode, you give 100 percent of your attention to the episode and if it's not, then you're giving 110 percent to your kid and your life and the rest of your family.
Any advice for moms trying to do it all?
"Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth." Forgive yourself. You're always going to feel guilty about something. If there's one piece of valuable information I wish I had in the beginning, it's this — allow yourself the guilt. It's okay. There's no way around it.
So who are you taking your cues from? Who's your parenting role model?
Nobody really. Nobody has it down and everyone's struggling to keep the balance. There are people that look like they're doing it brilliantly and maybe they are, but maybe they just look like that from the outside. Unfortunately if you measure yourself up against other people that look like they're doing it well, you're never going to feel like you're doing okay. You're always going to feel like you're at a deficit.
What's been your biggest challenge so far?
Navigating the single-mother waters with a little girl. I was engaged last year and Kaya was very attached to him and I really didn't know how to walk her through the break-up. She didn't get a say in that and yet she was pretty heart-broken. When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic and that [break-up] left her in a frantic space because she had no control over it.
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