Brooks Perlin and Katie Couric

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Brooks Perlin and Katie Couric

Perlin was 32 when they started dating, but Couric insists the
17-year age difference is not an issue. "Except for, um, you know, he's never been married and he doesn't have children," she says.

Katie Couric, whose husband died 12 years ago and who has been seeing eco-preneur Brooks Perlin for three years, says she has considered how nice it would be to be married again.

"There are times, quite frankly, when as a single mom, you feel very alone," she says.

Her daughter, Ellie, 18 and a freshman at Yale, "was sick after Thanksgiving with a virus and strep. She had a 105 fever, and it was really terrifying. I was running around looking for a thermometer in my building at 11:30 at night, and I was getting a fan, and my doctor said, 'You should put her in a tepid bath,' and she was all bundled up, and her temperature wasn't going down, and she was shaking because she was so cold."

Her voice starts to crack. "In times like that, I just profoundly miss …"

She can't finish. Having a partner? "Yeah."

As for that cougar label? "I just find it stupid, you know? I think it also surmises that the older woman is always the pursuer. That's not necessarily true. I always say that maybe the older woman is the prey and someone else is the predator. It's just silly."

In the behind the scenes video, Couric reveals that she feels s-exist "when I'm in a little black dress, with a really, really great pair of shoes, high heels of course."