HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck made her long-awaited Monday return to The View, where she admitted that not everything was perfect during her time away on maternity leave.

The 32-year-old TV host confessed that she accidentally exposed herself when she took a photo of her new baby son after feeding him.

"You know when your baby smiles for the first time – I reach for the iPhone and take the photo," she explained. "No wonder why he is smiling – because my nipple is in the photo!"

Hasselbeck, who welcomed son Isaiah Timothy on Aug. 8, said she had already e-mailed the racy pic to her family when she realized the nipple slip.

"It's worse than drunk dialing," she said. "It's embarrassing."

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