Valerie Bertinelli Quotes:

Honesty is very sexy.

Topics: Sexy, Honesty

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

source: - Valerie Bertinelli (2008). “Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Block, Feelings, Stuff

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you

source: - "Valerie Bertinelli Enjoying Career Revival After Losing Weight". www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2007.

Topics: People, Like You, Fats

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.

Topics: Evil, Personality, Body

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.

Topics: Liars, Years, Scare

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

Topics: Emotional

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Topics: Have Faith, Why Not, God Is There

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.

Topics: Book, Size, Embarrassed, Great Gifts

Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.

source: - Valerie Bertinelli (2009). “Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Workout, Thinking, Steps, Steps In The Right Direction

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

Topics: Sexy, Emotion

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.

Topics: Goal, Lap, Want

You're only as sick as your secrets.

Topics: Sick, Secret, Behind My Back

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.

Topics: Hurt, Children, Divorce, Your Ex

Leap...and the net will follow

source: - Valerie Bertinelli (2009). “Finding It: And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Leap

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.

source: - "Valerie Bertinelli comes clean on drugs, infidelity" by Jen Brown and Bob Considine, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

Topics: Party, Coffee, Home, Easy Way

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

Topics: Years, Bird, Sunrise

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.

Topics: Done, Weight, Maintenance

I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

Topics: Workout, Old School, Home, Push Ups

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.

Topics: Running, Sleep, Track, Back On Track

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

Topics: Eye, Special, Mouths

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.

Topics: People, Stories, Inspired

The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

Topics: Hair, Ankles

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Topics: Past, Painful, Painful Past

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Topics: Mom, Actresses, Full Time Mom, Part Time

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

source: - "Valerie Bertinelli comes clean on drugs, infidelity" by Jen Brown and Bob Considine, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

Topics: Downfall, Addict

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

Topics: Divorce, Thinking, People

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

Topics: Exercise, Pops

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.

Topics: Jeans, Buying, Next

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.

Topics: Writing, Weight, Way

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.

Topics: Happy, Stress, Choices, Stress And Life, Choose To Be Happy

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Healthy

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.

Topics: Loss, Simple, Weight, Gaining Weight

When faced with the choice, choose happy

Topics: Choices

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?

Topics: Thinking, Years, Bikinis

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

Topics: Mean, People, Complaining