In 2008, Valerie Bertinelliâs #1 bestseller, Losing It, connected with fans of multiple generations and spent a remarkable 8 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Now in paperback Finding It shares Valerie's conflicted, humorous, and highly personal tale of her continuing search for answers to life's big questions.
Welcome back to chez Bertinelli, where life is as crazy and comical as ever. In revealing talks with her longtime boyfriend, Tom, Valerie gets even more personal about her inner worries: her maternal anxieties about her son, Wolfie (heâs fallen in love and, as she writes, âgetting your sex talk from Eddie Van Halen wasnât recommended in any of the parenting books I readâ); the challenges of dealing with a blended family; her motherâs own new diet adventure; and a craving for a deeper relationship with a Higher Power (âI have experienced days of inner peace and connectedness with a larger spiritâtwice,â she writes. âWhy not more often?â). And as if these everyday challenges werenât enough, Valerie is working to maintain her own very public weight loss and approaching her fiftieth birthday. This is the story of what happens after you change your life. And itâs not all peaches and cream, or even low-fat yogurt.
This inspiring memoir, from the beloved actress and author of the bestseller Losing It, is an optimistic story for trying times. Warm and friendly, honest and self-awareâwith the same winning wit and candor that touched a generation of fans in Losing ItâFinding It is about working on all the reasons we gain weight in the first place so that it doesnât happen again. Itâs about becoming better, not just thinner. And itâs about believing in love and happiness, having faith that both are possible, and finding out that God does want you to enjoy lifeâs dessertsâeven when youâre on a diet.