The Drew Barrymore Show, April 15, 2024, CBS, “Valerie Bertinelli, Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett”

Valerie Bertinelli joins Drew Barrymore and Ross Mathews at the news desk and makes a lazy no-bake lasagna in this episode airing Monday April 15 on CBS. Plus, Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett, authors of This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained, talk about puberty and take audience questions.

Valerie Bertinelli first rose to fame as a teenager, playing Barbara Cooper Royer in the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984), for which she won two Golden Globe Awards. In 2015, Bertinelli began hosting Valerie’s Home Cooking and co-hosting Kids Baking Championship with cake artist Duff Goldman on the Food Network. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on Valerie’s Home Cooking. In 2019, she hosted two other Food Network shows, Family Food Showdown and Family Restaurant Rivals. In January 2024, she confirmed that she had been cut from Kids Baking Championship.

Cara Natterson is a pediatrician, speaker, and podcast host. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Care and Keeping of You series, which has sold over seven million copies, and the forthcoming This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained (2023) with Vanessa Kroll Bennett. She co-hosts The Puberty Podcast and co-authors The Awkward Roller Coaster Newsletter also with Vanessa.

Vanessa Kroll Bennett is a puberty expert, writer, and entrepreneur. She writes regularly about parenting tweens and teens for Scary Mommy and in her Uncertain Parenting Newsletter.

The Drew Barrymore Show airs Monday April 15, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. on CBS.