People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

- Valerie Bertinelli

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

- Valerie Bertinelli

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.

- Valerie Bertinelli

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

- Valerie Bertinelli

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

- Valerie Bertinelli

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

- Valerie Bertinelli

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

- Valerie Bertinelli

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

- Valerie Bertinelli

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

- Valerie Bertinelli

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

- Valerie Bertinelli

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

- Valerie Bertinelli

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

- Valerie Bertinelli

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

- Valerie Bertinelli

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

- Valerie Bertinelli

I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

- Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

- Valerie Bertinelli

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.

- Valerie Bertinelli

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.

- Valerie Bertinelli

Honesty is very sexy.

- Valerie Bertinelli

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 go out for coffee every five minutes.

- Valerie Bertinelli