Rinnavation: Getting Your Best Life Ever

by Lisa Rinna, Maureen O'Neal (Contributor)

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

• 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

• 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Celebrity, Memoir, Biography

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Lisa Rinna is an American actress, television personality, entrepreneur and model best known for her roles as Billie Reed on the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives and Taylor Fox on Melrose Place, and for starring in Bravo's hit reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She has also appeared as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing With the Stars, and has guest starred on series such as Entourage, Veronica Mars, Community, The Middle, and American Horror Story. She made her Broadway debut in Chicago as Roxie Hart in June 2007. In 2020 she launched her Rinna Beauty beauty brand and in 2022 debuted her first wine, Rinna Rose.

source: Amazon

Reviews

[lyss · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as problematic as I expected from Rinna, but I would not necessarily look at this book for self help.

[Kathryn]

Lol

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This review is dedicated to my one and only Nellspiration. If I could give all the stars it wouldn't sum up the miracle of getting my best life ever.

[Jill Kemerer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lisa Rinna always seems like she's having fun when I've seen her on television, so I figured her book would be fun too. It is! It's a very-easy-to-read, upbeat book about getting your best life.

I'm glad she included her struggles as a child and her tenacity in forging her career to include clothing stores, fitness videos, and her stint as a red-carpet interviewer. I found those to be very inspirational. Also, her chapter on exercise was refreshing. So many fab-looking stars pooh-pooh their workouts or pretend they just "have good genes." It takes work to look that good!

The parenting, sex, and spirituality chapters were rather light, but overall the book was perfect for a gray, cold, January afternoon.

[Bethany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Judge me all you want, but I love Lisa Rinna. She and I are kindred spirits. I loved her from her Real Housewives days, and this book has been on my list a while and I'm finally getting to it. One of the biggest things I remember from watching her was how great her kids were compared to the other wives' kids. I think that said a lot about her. Her book is also the best I've read from my favorite wives. But she and I think very similarly. But, I will say there are some things in here, that had I read them 5 years ago, when I was in a dark place, I would have eye rolled at. But today, when I needed this reassurance, this book somehow found me. And honestly, I think she would love that. But how she approaches fashion, eating, exercise, spirituality, motherhood, her marriage... I agree with it all and while neither of us is perfect... we feel great and that must mean we are doing something right.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

By Lisa Rinna

Beauty, diet, fashion, life

[Trace · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my thing

[Pearl · Rating 2 out of 5]

I mean… it’s very decent for what it is.

I love Lisa Rinna, mostly because The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is my number one comfort show, and for three seasons, she made that show worth watching with a combination of big lips, iconic hair, and plain-old charisma. Also wine-glass smashing, and near choking. But I digress.

For anyone who doesn’t know: Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise isn’t just cameras following rich women during their glossy day to day lives — well they are— but they are also Survivor-style, fight to the death dramas between these women over a period of months, followed by a three episode ‘reunion’ cast Roundtable, where they have watched the show (and the other women’s confessionals) back and get to argue in person, overseen by Bravo’s shady ringmaster, Andy Cohen.

Sometimes the conflict is about the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard of (toy bunnies, Xanax smoothies, ‘were people doing coke in your bathroom?’) and sometimes they’re about surprisingly subtle topics (Erika Giradi’s legal woes, the ongoing saga of the child-star Richards sisters, alcoholism, and attempts to manipulate the public narrative with a shelter dog).

What the shows producers want you to do (or will trick you into doing with editing) is picking one or two of the wives that you align with ethically, aesthetically or even spiritually. It’s fascinating as a concept, because even though it plays out archetypes against each other, it’s also a tonal portrait of middle-aged women, at what I think is the most interesting time of their lives.

ANYWAY, this book came up in season 7 (?) I think, brought up in Hong Kong by Lisa’s Instagram model daughters, as the book that taught them how to give blow-jobs. And honestly that is the juiciest bit in this book, the rest is pretty standard early 2000s Hollywood self-help.

It did make me love Rinna more. She’s such a hustler, such a bullshitter, so charming, and I want her to live her best life forever okay?

[Laurie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of little tips about all sorts of beauty issues...from diet to exercise to tanning spray and plastic surgery. I have a little annoyance that sometimes it's way too Hollywood, giving advice that real people aren't going to follow...but maybe there are some readers that are going to be into that. Also, I have way too clear a vision of what Lisa Rinna does with Harry Hamlin in bed now. Again, maybe there are some readers that are going to be into that.

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok so this is officially my first review! This book is a quick, entertaining, enjoyable read. Didn't love it but didn't hate it either, hence the three stars. I knew going into it that this book was going to be pretty much fluff and I wasn't disappointed. Good summer read for the beach or poolside.

[Alona Perlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book started off well. I thought I would be inspired and more energized with positivity. Although some information and advice were useful, it proved to be unoriginal. I have not learned anything different about living a positive life that I did not know before. It was a good attempt but failed to reach the intended objective.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good information, but alot of repeated information. I especially enjoyed the chapters on motherhood and spiritual journey. The main focus of the book was to be yourself and have positive energy in everything you do. Not alot of new information, but she has a comfortable writing style.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lisa Rinna is likable, but the book is thin and filled with the things that most women, most people know, about health and beauty. The author is big on fads, and plastic surgery to make a woman feel sexually confident, but I doubt this works for most women.

[Marilyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I realize that I just don't have my regular capacity to read right now. Too much going on. So, fluff it is. This was fun and upbeat. Just what I can handle right now. She's positive and it was entertaining.

[Dionne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am reading a lot of biographies this year, and this was a great one. Lisa combines tips on life while sharing her own story. I found the tips and her life story both helpful and refreshingly honest. It was a good and fast read.

[Traci]

Check out my big, curly 90's hair in the cooking with the family pic!

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a most interesting, and informative book! I suggest every woman should read it..

[Kyla · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun read, Lisa doesn't hold back in sharing information about EVERY aspect of her life.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really easy read, good humor and great tips!

[Jaclyn Snyder-culletto · Rating 3 out of 5]

very useful info on getting in shape. loved the how to feel good about yourself parts and how open she was about herself.

[Melissa Love · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. She lost me on her spirituality discussion.

[Annette]

She's fun, goofy and down to earth!

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book but I have always been a fan since Days of Our Lives!

[Gracie Soldani · Rating 3 out of 5]

so far i really enjoy it, i really respect her confidence and honesty