how to pull bool datatype field in db into a checkbox property

I am pulling data from database to a datareader object "dr"

once I iterate throught the dr, I need to pull its value to a variable :

bool profileComplete = dr["profileComplete"] // this caused error stating that cannot implicitely convert type 'object' to a bool .

My question, why when I use bool.Parse, in code below, shows a message " cannot convert from object to a string "

profileComplete = bool.Parse(dr["profileComplete"]

However, when I add .ToString() it works:

profileComplete = bool.Parse(dr["profileComplete"].ToString());

By the way, the datatype of profileComplete in the database is bit ( 0,1 )

// this is what I need to do , to populate a checkbox with a value from db

cbProbileComplete.Checked = profileComplete ;