
Valerie Bertinelli opens up about trauma, aging, and self-acceptance in new memoir
Valerie Bertinelli's memoir Getting Naked chronicles not just her public life but private struggles—from divorce and career upheaval to childhood sexual abuse and EMDR therapy—leading to forgiveness, a commitment to self-acceptance and emotional safety, a shift away from diet culture and plastic surgery, and the revelation that posing nude for the cover was a fear she faced once and won't repeat.