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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Honesty is very sexy.
Valerie Bertinelli
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When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
Valerie Bertinelli
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When faced with the choice, choose happy
Valerie Bertinelli
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
Valerie Bertinelli
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If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
Valerie Bertinelli
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.
Valerie Bertinelli
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Leap...and the net will follow
Valerie Bertinelli
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You're only as sick as your secrets.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
Valerie Bertinelli
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
Valerie Bertinelli
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I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!
Valerie Bertinelli
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Valerie Bertinelli
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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.
Valerie Bertinelli
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
Valerie Bertinelli
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
Valerie Bertinelli
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It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.
Valerie Bertinelli
