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Nicola Kraus, Brooklyn mother (Amazon)

Nanny Diaries‘s Nicola Kraus on Brooklyn, Babysitters, And the ‘Sally Draper Phenomenon’

Nicola Kraus is one half of the team responsible for 2002′s best-seller The Nanny Diaries: a book in The Devil Wears Prada vein that dealt with the horrors not of the publishing industry, but the UES child-rearing business.*

Adapted into a film in 2007 with Scarlett Johansson, the world’s most realistic nanny, Ms. Kraus hit the residuals jackpot again last summer, when it was announced the Ryan Seacrest Productions and The Weinstein Company would be producing The Nanny Diaries as a series for ABC, helmed by Gilmore Girls’ creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. (Now that we’d watch.)

Ten years later, and with a child of her own, Ms. Kraus recently opened up about how she’s raising her child in an interview with NYNatives.com…a dicey subject for someone most famous for her take-down on New York mommies. Read More