Rinnavation: Getting Your Best Life Ever [Paperback]

Lisa Rinna (Author), Maureen O'Neal (Contributor)

Book Description

Release date: May 18, 2010

GET READY TO "RINNAVATE" YOUR LIFE!

Look better, feel better, live better, love better—the Lisa Rinna way!

Whether she’s interviewing celebrities on the red carpet, or "movin’ what she’s got" on Dancing with the Stars, Lisa Rinna always looks absolutely sensational. Now for the first time, the award-winning actress reveals her best-kept secrets for staying fit, managing weight, looking beautiful, feeling sexy, and living the best life possible.

IN HER FUN "YOU CAN DO IT" GUIDE, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

• How Lisa got that Dancing with the Stars body

• How to lose weight fast—without counting calories

• How to be "camera-ready" in just minutes

• How to balance work and family while also finding time to take care of yourself

• Plus: Lisa’s instant "lip plumper," quick-fix tanner, everyday makeup advice, hairstyling secrets, and even super-hot sex tips!

With surprising candor, down-to-earth humor, and irresistible charm, Lisa talks frankly about her self-esteem lows, her struggle losing baby weight, her Hollywood marriage, and her never-before-told experiences with cosmetic surgery. She reveals her emotional and spiritual journey from feeling unattractive and uninspired, to finding a new sense of purpose and enthusiasm. And she shows you how to positively transform your life—inside and out—by taking it one day at a time.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Television personality and former soap star Rinna has the charisma and outsized ego to stay afloat in the treacherous seas of Hollywood show business, but even haters have to concede that her feel-good TV persona has both heart and staying power. Here, the Dancing with the Stars contestant makes an effective leap into print with an extra-positive, quick-witted, all-purpose self help. Rinna's small-town Oregon background helps her keep advice practical and affordable, for the most part. (Her exhaustive three-week big event preparation-facials, spray tans, masks, mani-pedis-might be a bit much for your average working woman.) Where Rinna excels, however, is sharing her insecurities and her methods of overcoming them; it's easy to forget a constant TV presence can struggle with the same anxieties as any woman regarding diet, marriage and work-life balance. In addition to dishing on life in the spotlight, her famous lips and sex with her husband Harry Hamlin, she also reveals her struggles with post-partum depression. Throughout, she remains cheery, humble and helpful.
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About the Author

Lisa Rinna played Billie Reed on Days of our Lives, heated up Melrose Place as Taylor McBride, earned two Emmy nominations for Best Talk Show host for her show Soap Talk on SOAPnet, was featured on Oprah for her boutique, and has made a name for herself as an actress, a television personality, and a businesswoman. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Rinnavation. A gorgeous celebrity with a killer sense of style, Lisa lives in Los Angeles with her husband (actor Harry Hamlin) and her two daughters.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Gallery Books; 1 edition (May 18, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439171521
• ISBN-13: 978-1439171523
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,161,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars This Rinnavation is Nothing New. June 6, 2009

By Michelle R

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I picked this book because I like Lisa Rinna. After reading it, I still like Lisa Rinna, but the book doesn't live up to the portion of the title that proclaims "Getting Your Best Life Ever."

Keep in mind that the secondary reason I selected the book is that I'm in the author's age range and, therefore, in the demographic she probably hopes to reach.

But there's the rub.

This is a thin book, and other than some personal revelations and the occasional new tidbit of advice, it's comprised of information any woman who ever read Cosmo fairly regularly would have read decades ago and claims with no science to support them.

There are certainly good suggestions there, things any woman can do, as well as things out of the price range of most. Now, personally, I don't mind rich people spending money how they like -- it's theirs to spend. However, this book is so thin that it can't stand to lose to things that most of the readers can't implement. All this would have been fine in a more substantial book.

Ms. Rinna likes fads, too. And psychics. And anecdotal evidence. Which would make her a fun friend, sure, but it's of limited helpfulness here.

I'm okay with women getting plastic surgery. I think anyone who proclaims they like Lisa Rinna would probably be tolerant on the topic, but what does the average woman do with Ms. Rinna proclaiming getting some was the only thing that made her able to feel like rolling in the sheets with Harry Hamlin? She spends a lot of time talking about creams and exercise and drinking water and a good outlook, but when all of that is done, it becomes about the surgeon's knife defining her sense of self-worth.

She takes it as a given that people should drink 8-eight ounce glasses of water. Okay.... Is there anybody who hasn't heard that? Then, I can't help but think of how this has been disproved several times in recent years -- most recently on Oprah with Dr. Oz. This claim would still be okay, as old as it is, as disproved as it is, if it wasn't in a book with advice of similar ilk.

There's nothing wrong with reminding women of advice we know -- sometimes it's a needed nudge. At some point I wanted substance though. Not: drink water, exercise, be open to your husband's needs, and research your plastic surgeon. Most women of a certain age could have written much of this book, as could their daughters.

I think a Lisa Rinna autobiography would have been great, with a sprinkling of health, beauty, and romance advice comprising a couple chapters, but the book doesn't hold it's own at what the author wants it to be. There are few insights here, little substance, and not enough to justify a book. This would have worked well as a monthly feature in a mag or a column on Huffington post, but I just don't see it fulfilling the title.

Three stars, because it's not bad -- just insubstantial. Definitely worth getting from the library or the bargain bin and I still think the writer has a better book in her. Read more ›

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Your Normal Self-Help Book May 30, 2009

By Mom of Four Sons VINE™ VOICE

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I began watching Lisa Rinna years ago on Days of Our Lives. She was always beautiful and captivating, so I was very excited when I saw that she had a book about her struggles and triumphants with beauty and life! This book was a quick read. It has over 200 pages, but the font size is large, and the style is easy to read. Lisa does a great job of keeping the reader engaged in what she is trying to explain. Most of her topics were interesting, some were not applicable or did not relate to me. When she talks in detail about skin treatment, facials, and other beauty regiments, she loses me. A lot of her focus is on outer beauty. I am okay with that as long it is focussed on making you feel better; I don't think women should get so hung up on their outer beauty that they miss enjoying life on a more intimate level.

Lisa speaks on different enhancement procedures that she's had, and I appreciate her honesty. She is a beautiful girl with great advice. She concentrates a lot of her book on her marriage and things she does to make her personal life more intimate. Even Lisa Rinna has struggled with some depression and feeling inadequate. She has some good insight into how she dealt with each of those issues.

Lisa writes this book as a real woman with some of the same issues that we all face. Although she's never truly 'struggled' with her weight, she has had baby weight to lose. She has some ideas about weight loss that are scientifically supported and easy to adapt. She believes in eating small, healthy meals throughout the day. She also gives some details about cleansing the liver and going on a liquid fast to cleanse the system. Her recipes are an added bonus!

Lisa is one of those weird ones who actually enjoys exercise! Yuck!... For those of us who don't just love exercise, she gives us ideas on how to quick start our exercise regime. She also has some methods for losing weight fast to fit into a special dress. Those methods include both exercise and eating right.

She pays some homage to Howard Stern a few times in the book. He is not a man that impresses me, so that part was a little disappointing. She also has read and gained an understanding of "The Secret". I have some major issues with the subjects contained within it. All in all, Lisa is sharing her tried and true methods that have helped her achieve a healthy body, a healthy marriage, and is now allowing her to enjoy her 'best life ever.' Read more ›

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Lisa Rinna Bares All June 7, 2009

By Lee Mellott TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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This book reminds me of they type of book beauty queens like Raquel Welch and Victoria Principal wrote years ago spiced up with notes on sexuality. It will date quickly and is very personalized. Here Rinna bares all about what works for her. The book covers her fitness, beauty, spiritual, fashion and sex life. Essentially the reader is to use this tips to "rinnavate" their own life and become as happy and healthy as Lisa. Lisa has developed a program that really works well for "her" but it is so personalized and she uses such a mix of things whether it will work well for others seems unlikely.

For diet Lisa explains how she uses or has used a mix of "Fit for Life", "Zone", "The Blood Type Diet", detox plans, and eating small meals frequently, but goes on to say that her plan isn't really a "diet". One is left curious about what Lisa's plan really is.

Lisa suggests keeping up with your looks with injectibles but shares that she messed up her lips using them. She shares tips on how to whip your skin into shape but confides that she used the hard to get prescription accutane to get her acne under control. She shares home beauty secrets such as using Preparation H under the eyes. Use of Preparation H, in an area it was not intended for, could potentially be damaging.

Lisa's fashion tips have merit. She shares buying quality over quantity. But she also shares how she was once unable to join an event because she was wearing pants and they were not allowed. She had to wait in a small room. She enjoys telling this tale and others and it appears she likes to "shock the epater" ie shock the middle classes. Most of us can't pull off shocking the crowds and will look like fools instead. Often wearing appropriate clothing is best....

Lisa also takes on sexuality in her book and is unashamed to share about her and husband Harry's sex life. Lisa also shared she spilled all on Howard Stern. Why not keep intimacy intimate? As an aside, Harry wrote a beautiful introduction to the book.

A lot of Lisa's personality came through in the book and she comes across as a sincere person who is comfortable with herself. Overall though, I think Lisa may have been better off writing more of a biography and including a smattering of beauty tips instead of writing this type of self help book.

~ Lee Mellott Read more ›