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Valerie Bertinelli Shares Rare Details About Brother’s Death at 17 Months

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Valerie Bertinelli is opening up about a pivotal loss her family experienced before she was born. “It wasn’t until I was pregnant with [my son] Wolfie that my mom started to open up about Mark,” Bertinelli wrote in her new book, Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect, referring to her brother who died at just 17 months old. “Before then, details about him came out in dribs and drabs. But once I was carrying my own child, she told me about her own pregnancy and what Mark had been like as a baby and a toddler.” Bertinelli continued, “He was her second boy, a bright light,...