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Valerie Bertinelli

Biography

Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli is an actress and TV personality, best known for starring in the 70’s sitcom "One Day at a Time." She now hosts the Emmy Award–winning Food Network show "Valerie’s Home Cooking," as well as "Kids Baking Championship." She is the author of LOSING IT: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, and the follow-up FINDING IT: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life Without Opening the Fridge, as well as VALERIE'S HOME COOKING and ONE DISH AT A TIME.

Valerie Bertinelli

Books by Valerie Bertinelli

by Valerie Bertinelli - Memoir, Nonfiction

Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli’s life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on "One Day at a Time" and punishing herself in order to fit into the unachievable Hollywood mold. She struggled to make her marriage to Eddie Van Halen --- the true love of her life --- work, despite all the rifts that the rock-star lifestyle created between them. Through mourning the loss of her parents, discovering more about her family’s past, and realizing how short life really is when she and her son lost Eddie, Valerie finally said “Enough already!” to a lifelong battle with the scale and found a new path forward to joy and connection.