Valerie Bertinelli

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

“I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!”

“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?”

“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 d...”

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

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

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

“As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.”

“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. It's there to nourish your body.”

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

“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 g...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”