Lisa Rinna - Rinnavation: getting your best life ever

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Rinnavation is, simply put, about looking your best, feeling your best, and doing your best, at every age and stage of life.

Lisa Rinna

From award-winning actress, TV host, and Dancing with the Stars alumni Lisa Rinna comes the perfect companion for your best health, fitness, beauty, life, and lovefeaturing Lisas insider secrets:

The Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans by Friday Plan a 7-day detox diet

The Red Carpet-Ready Routine a complete 3-week beauty regimen

The Quick-Fix Workout the fast way to tackle problem areas

The Must-Have Foods for fabulous hair and glowing skin

The Truth about Cosmetic Surgery and so much more!

Filled with professional tips for your body, mind, and spirit, as well as some sexy tricks to spice up your marriage, Lisas entertaining all-in-one guide is a total revelation.

Its Rinnavation !

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rinna, Lisa.

Rinnavation : getting your best life ever / Lisa Rinna.

p. cm.

1. Rinna, Lisa. 2. WomenConduct of life. 3. Beauty, Personal. 4. Spiritual life. I. Title.

BJ1547.5.R56A3 2009

155.3'33dc22

2009005590

ISBN 978-1-4169-4863-6

ISBN 978-1-4391-7152-3 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4391-6345-0 (ebook)

T o my angels, Delilah and Amelia.

This is for you! Thank you for showing me the way.

BY HARRY HAMLIN

T he summer of 1992 was momentous for me. My mother died in early July, my wife ran off with a pop singer in mid-July, and I met Lisa Deanne Rinna in late July. It was not the kind of July I was used to.

I remember clearly the emotional impact of each of those events. The first two caused fairly predictable reactionsI grieved for my mother and was saddened and enraged by my wifes behavior. But sooner or later all our parents pass on and, sooner or later, if you marry a certain kind of person, theyre going to run off. It was meeting Lisa that was most astonishing.

We met on a balmy night at one of Wolfgang Pucks smaller trattorias, high up in the hills of Bel Air. I was commiserating with a friend over a glass of pinot noir about the demise of my yearlong marriage, when a pretty brunette in jeans and a T-shirt strolled up to our table and handed a set of keys to my friend. I stood; I heard my friend introduce her as Lisa Renneau, the night salesgirl at his eyeglass store, which was next door to the restaurant. She had closed up and was returning the keys.

I was vaguely annoyed that our conversationa lengthy diatribe by me about the horrible month I was havinghad been interrupted, and I just wanted her to go away so I could get back to poor me. But as I shook her hand, I looked into her eyes and saw something that took my breath away. It was a kind of openness or willingness unobscured by any social mask or preeningan authenticity rare in the Hollywood ether. Her eyes said, Here I am; what you see is what you get.

Now, at that moment the last thing on my mind was romance and, given the fact that I was an emotional wreck, the thought of having any real feelings for another woman was out of the question; but I was smitten and I couldnt help myself. I asked the night salesgirl with the exotic French name to join us.

She sat down and began to tell us about her experience seeing Cirque du Soleil, the new traveling acrobatic extravaganza from Canada that was the talk of the town. She described in detail, practically squealing from excitement, the various acts, and kept going on about how sexy it all was. Between that first look, her exotic French name, and her obsession with how sexy the circus was, I was hooked. Later that night, in the parking lot of the restaurant, I told my friend that I had found Lisa enchanting and that I was surprised, given my current emotional state, that I could have any feelings at all for another woman. I told him that if I were a single man, I would like to see her again.

And see her again I did. A few weeks later, after I had filed for divorce, I called her up on a weeknight and asked if she would join me for dinner in an hour at my favorite Italian joint in Brentwood. I knew it was a long shot. Most girls were following the dating advice of other women (that would later be set forth in a book called The Rules ), and were turning down any invitation from a man unless the date was at least three days away. But Lisa was game, and one hour later she showed up in a T-shirt and jeans at Toscana for our first date. I asked about her French heritage and was informed that she was of Italian descent, that her name was Rinna, not Renneau, and that she did not hail from Saint Tropez but from a little-known small town in Oregon. I was only a little disappointed by that and remained optimistic, but still the date didnt go as well as I had hoped. Despite the fact that our waiter kept telling us in a thick Italian accent that we were destined to be together, our conversation was stilted. Then, after dinner in the parking lot as we said goodbye, I went in for the obligatory first date kiss, and it was a disasterthe kiss of death... nothing... nada ... niente. I was definitely disappointed to say the least, and went home thinking that I would never find romance again.