Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect
Valerie Bertinelli Harper Wave, 2026 pp. 240 ISBN: 9780063429086 Disclosure: A complimentary review copy of this title was provided by the publisher for the purposes of this review. This disclosure does not influence the objectivity or independence of the analysis presented herein. Overview Valerie Bertinelli’s Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect (2026) arrives as perhaps the most searching, intellectually honest, and emotionally courageous work of the beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author’s literary career. Published by Harper Wave, this deeply personal memoir positions itself not as a conventional celebrity autobiography — replete with glamorized anecdote and curated self-mythology — but as a sustained, rigorously honest reckoning with the accumulated weight of shame, perfectionism, generational trauma, and the particular and often invisibilized suffering that accompanies the experience of being a woma...