New Mom Holly Madison: She's a Natural, Says Peepshow Costar Josh Strickland

Madison's pal and costar couldn't help but to gush over her new life as a mom

By Marc Malkin Jun 30, 2013 5:54 PMTags
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Holly Madison for mother of the year?

Sure, sounds like it could happen.

"She's the best," the former Girls Next Door star's Peepshow pal Josh Strickland told me at last night's opening of Michael Jackson One at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. "Seriously, the baby came out and she was so natural. She knew what she wanted. She knew what to do. It's a beautiful thing."

Madison gave birth to her and beau Pasquale Rotella's daughter, Rainbow, March 5.

"The baby has such beautiful eyes, which are Holly's and then her face looks like Pasqual's," Strickland said. "So I have to say [she looks like] a total mix between the two."

Following the birth of the couple's first child together, Rotella popped the question to Madison during the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas last week.

"I got engaged on Sunday!" Madison wrote. "He proposed to me at the top of the Ferris wheel at EDC Las Vegas. I was so happy that so many of our close friends were there to share the wonderful moment with us! We rode around the festival on the art car until the sun came up!"

"I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful or magical proposal!," she added.

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