Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect
4.3 | 61 ratings
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Last update: 03-23-2026
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- RFGood bookGetting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect by Valerie Bertinelli is another great autobiography that I truly enjoyed.
This is another great installment from this author and she continues to give further insight into her life as she navigates new challenges, surprises, choices, and acceptance.
This book is more like journal entries that create a theme, or collection, than just a purely seamless presentation. Even though I prefer her previous books, I have read them all, I still enjoyed everything she brought to the table.
WE get to follow along as she comes to terms with life, past choices, reality, aging, imperfections, and learning to appreciate grace, forgiveness, sunshine, and the small things that come our way.
I really enjoyed the privilege of being able to be included in her life.
4/5 stars
Thank you NG and William Morrow | Harper Wave for this wonderful arc and in return I am submitting my unbiased and voluntary review and opinion.
I am posting this review to my GR and Bookbub immediately and will post it to my Amazon, Instagram, and B&N accounts upon publication on 3/10/26. - Tracey GGreat read —real and rawI just received Valerie Bertinelli’s beautiful new book “Getting Naked”, and I can’t stop reading it.
What Valerie has done in these pages is courageous. She has stripped away the layers of performance and perfection that so many of us feel pressured to carry and instead offers something far more powerful, truth. Raw, honest, deeply human truth.
This book is not about presenting a polished version of life. It’s about the messy, vulnerable, and very real journey of learning to love yourself after years of trying to be what everyone else expected. Valerie writes with such openness that you can feel her heart on every page. Her willingness to be this honest creates something incredibly healing for the reader.
What moved me most is the depth of self-reflection and the courage it takes to share it publicly. That kind of authenticity invites all of us to look more gently at our own lives, our own struggles, and the ways we are still learning to come home to ourselves.
There is so much wisdom in these pages, about self-worth, about letting go of shame, and about the quiet strength it takes to stand in your truth and get out of your own way!.
Brava, Valerie, This book is brave, compassionate, and deeply healing.
— Susan Grau
Author of Infinite Life, Infinite Lessons - *TUDOR^QUEEN*Lacked substanceDNF @ 40%
I was enthusiastic to read this because I really enjoyed Valerie Bertinelli's previous memoir. There were a lot of references to her Italian family origins, cooking, her enduring love for ex-husband Eddie Van Halen as he was dying from cancer, and of course her overwhelming love for their son Wolfgang. I went back to read my review and the book rose above my expectations- I gave it 5 Stars.
I can't even bring myself to finish this insipid offering I am so bored with it. Ironically enough, I am ready to call out "Enough Already!" - which is the title of her last memoir. However, if I had to re-title this one I'd call it "Platitudes". The word means:
-A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. Synonym: cliche.
- Lack of originality; triteness. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness, triteness; staleness of ideas or language.
While Valerie discusses going through menopause and scaling back on her drinking, she ruminates on all manner of self-care and self-discovery that increasingly became a lot of rambling fluff to me. She also included passages from her journals sort of like poetry that didn't resonate with me and made me feel kind of embarrassed for her. I just came away from this thinking that this was a poor excuse for writing a book and it lacked substance. I can't recommend this one.
Thank you to the publisher William Morrow who provided an advance reader copy via NetGalley. - Nicki Holt - The Overflowing BookcaseHonest and thought provokingBeing comfortable in your own skin and allowing the hurt from your past to make you stronger is what Valerie Bertinelli weaves into journal posts and reflections. At times these posts are hard to read as they hit home with any woman who was afraid to really see the person looking back at you in front of the mirror. Ms. Bertinelli does it with a sense of growth through laughter, love and just being honest. Overall it was a great read.
- Martin FelsenfeldValerie Does It Again!That’s a nice book that Valerie Bertinelli wrote! I predicted greatness that goes back to high school! The actress lived in northridge for many years but the town was never the same after that morning in 1994 due to the earthquake there. Valerie, a native of Delaware, is number 1!
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