Valerie Bertinelli

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

“Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.”

“There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.”

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

“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.”

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

“I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.”

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

“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.”

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