Living With Naked Cowboy

Living With The “NAKED COWBOY”
…Never a Dull Moment!

By Cindy Fox
info@cindyfoxfitness.com


His name is Robert Burck and that’s what I call him. Most people call him “Naked” or “Hey Cowboy”. Although, when we visit his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, his family and friends refer to him as “Bobby”, which sounds even stranger to me than “Cowboy”.
We met three years ago on ellipticals when one of my clients introduced him to me as “Robert, you know, the Naked Cowboy”. I was clueless and asked him if that was the name of his band. Boy, was I in for a shock!
We usually talked about working out, different philosophies, motivational books, and the fact that we were both too driven and independent to be “tied down” in a relationship. Well here we are three years later, living together in an “interdependent”, romantic relationship, completely supportive of each other.
During my first Mardi Gras, after being together a few months, I walked down Bourbon Street with him as “Naked Cowboy” and that was the first time it hit me that I was dating a celebrity! I thought only people in the NY area knew him, but people from all over the U.S. kept stopping us to take a photo with him. I was completely overwhelmed at the magnitude of it all!
By our next trip together, a convention in Chicago, he had me dressed up as his “Cowgirl”. That was the most fun I ever had at a convention! It was a great networking opportunity for me too, since I had just filmed my first fitness video, The Method Cardio Flexband Workout and the vendors were from all over the world. I was dropping cards left and right.
His rebellious, aggressive nature brings out my “alter-ego” while we’re away because I’m normally very “grounded” with three kids and my own career. On a typical day, he gets to go to Times Square to “do his thing” and then come home and do “the family thing”. I think he feels security in that since he travels a lot.
Being Naked Cowboy’s “significant other” has allowed me to travel to Japan last year when “Match.com” hired him and put us up in first class accommodations. We recently went to Seattle, WA for the anniversary of “Cowgirls, Inc”. I got to be in the recording studio while he recorded “Nothin’ to Do With Love” for TMR Records in Nashville, as well as some of the production of his first CD by 4Sight Music Production in NYC, which is almost finished. Being new to playing a guitar, I find the process interesting.
Had I met Naked Cowboy at a time in my life when I was not as secure with myself, I would’ve probably been jealous quite often. Now, when the women throw themselves at him, I grab the camera from their hands and take the photo for them while he squeezes their butt. How much more supportive can I be?