In 2008, she alsojoined Fox Network’s popular sports talk show, The Best Damn Sports Show Period as a correspondent covering major sporting events. After achieving an athletic scholarship to the University of Arizona, and while competing in Olympic trials, she began to struggle with bulimia nervosa. Stress from wearing a swimsuit under a microscope as well as seeing the photo-shopping process of her ads caused Beard to desire having a body which matched that in her photos. In 2012, she released an autobiography, In the Water They Can’t See You Cry: A Memoir, where she discusses her personal struggles, her parent’s divorce, and working through the pressures of being a perfectionist. Beard is a vegetarian and is married to photographer, Sacha Brown and the couple have two children, a boy, Blaise and a girl, Doone. Recently, Beard and her family appeared on the hit reality series, Celebrity Wife Swap where they swapped lives with Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.