Getting Naked

The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect

De: Valerie Bertinelli

Narrado por: Valerie Bertinelli

NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR From beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli, her most vulnerable book yet offering wisdom hard-won through divorce, menopause, and generational pain, with a powerful message of self-acceptance and embracing the past with compassion.

With her signature warmth and disarming humor, the beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author strips away the polished façade and shares what it’s really like to grow older, love harder, and start over. Now in her mid-sixties, Valerie reflects on the hard-won lessons of aging, self-worth, and letting go. From her experiences with menopause, relationships, and family trauma, she writes with clarity and compassion about the insecurities that have haunted her for decades: shame and anxiety about her body, and the false belief that her value depended on perfection. Through it all, Valerie reflects on the quiet, daily work of self-acceptance—the kind that doesn’t make headlines but changes lives. Getting Naked isn’t just a story of survival. It’s a reckoning—with her past, her family history, and the generational pain that shaped her. It’s about the myths we believe when we’re young—about beauty, love, success—and how we carry them until they break us open. It’s about unlearning the script that says women must please, endure, and stay silent.

The result is a deeply personal, unexpectedly funny, and profoundly uplifting look at the inner journey we all share. Getting Naked isn’t about vulnerability for vulnerability’s sake. It’s about finally letting go of the need to be perfect, quieting the harsh inner critic, and choosing compassion over judgment. After all, it’s never too late to make peace with yourself—and to fall madly in love with the perfectly imperfect person you already are.

Valerie is real just like me !!

I absorbed it . I read it and heard it . I cried and laughed with her, Good Lord I’m not alone I have a kindred sister I never knew and she’s almost my age and looks like me. Thank you , my now friend, for sharing your world and making me feel like I’m ok in this crazy world as it turns .Cindy Favella- Vallejo

Love

Thank you so much for such a beautiful book!! I loved it! Read in one sitting!!

Valerie Bertinelli.. Awesome!

This is an awesome book and I love the way she tells the truth about her life of Eddie, Wolfie and all her friends and family! EXCELLENT!

My heart “getting naked “

This book touched my soul and said everything and more that is my life. Thank you Val. If I lived closer we could be friends. Maybe I’ll see you sometime to hug you for verbalizing my feelings so well. Sending you love and light forever.

Unabashedly Real

I love this book! Valerie's honesty and sharing of her life's most difficult experiences and advice to grow on.