Valerie Bertinelli Opens Up About How She Stopped Judging Herself for Weight Gain
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Valerie Bertinelli’s upcoming memoir details her struggles with weight gain and how she learned to stop shaming herself for it.
“This book is about letting go of the mindset that made me feel broken and always trying to fix something about myself,” she said.
Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today will release in January 2022.
Food Network star Valerie Bertinelli is over worrying about her weight. Thanks to her upbringing in Hollywood, she’s spent so much of her life agonizing over body image, and now at 61 years old, she’s learning to let go and live in the moment.
The best-selling cookbook author and actress details her enlightenment in her upcoming memoir, Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today. The book—releasing in January 2022—explains her innermost struggles, and she describes it to People as “the most personal, intimate writing I’ve done.”
“This book is about letting go of the mindset that made me feel broken and always trying to fix something about myself,” she added. “I explore the things that I have gone through and continue to deal with in getting to where I am today—topics that I think will be familiar to many people—my relationship to food, being a mom, mid-life career changes, aging parents, saying goodbye to loved ones, and asking why the hell have I been so hard on myself for so long.”
It’s a message plenty of women can relate to, especially from Bertinelli, who has been open about her journey to self-love over the last few years. At the beginning of 2020, she made a new year resolution to “choose happy” and committed to focusing on her mental health over her physical appearance.
“It became, ‘I’d like to lose the weight but I may never lose the weight. How do I love me for who I am right now? Today. At this body. At this age,’” she told People at the time. “That means you have to do the internal work. I’ve been really good at covering it up and eating through it.”
It’s clear that writing her memoir helped her begin some of that work, and she hopes it can help others take the plunge. “I cover a lot [in the book],” she told People. “But ultimately it’s about growing older, with the emphasis on growth, learning lessons and reminding myself—and hopefully those who read the book—that life is a gift and too short to waste.”
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