Valerie Bertinelli says she was ‘lucky to have survived’ severe post-surgery infection

Valerie Bertinelli says she’s "lucky to have survived" after she got a serious infection following a breast augmentation surgery.

The 65-year-old wrote in her new memoir, "Getting Naked," that she always hated her naturally small breasts and decided to get implants in the 1980s.

While she wanted a modest change to her cleavage, somehow she ended up with results more dramatic than she intended. 

"After I got the implants, I never put them on display. I tried to hide them even, embarrassed that I had done it," she wrote.