“Food Network” star Valerie Bertinelli wowed fans by looking younger than ever while showing off her latest weight loss update.
The 66-year-old took to Instagram this week to share her ‘outfit of the day’, as she was dressed in blue flared jeans and a gray cable knit short-sleeve jumper.
The “One Day at a Time” alum gave viewers a glimpse of her flat stomach and also turned around to show off her butt.
In the caption, she wrote that she was “feeling great” – and it seemed many fans agreed with her, as they left comments gushing over her timeless look.
“You look great. Lost tons of weight. Look 15 years younger ❤️,” one Instagram user wrote.
Another agreed: “You look good, but more importantly, you look like you feel good.” »
“This is fantastic!! This cute outfit suits you perfectly ❤️,” someone else commented.
One person chimed in: “You look amazing Val. Keep bathing in this fountain of youth you found. lol.”
Bertinelli has been open with her fans about her physical and emotional struggles, sharing many of the difficult times she has faced so that others feel “less alone.”
In 2024, Bertinelli went viral for posting a selfie in her bra and underwear, celebrating every “bump, bump, wrinkle and saggy part.”
During an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” a few days later, the actress explained that she posted the vulnerable snap while trying to celebrate her body.
“I accepted my body now, the aging, and I saw myself in the light and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m not angry about that,'” Bertinelli explained at the time. “You know, all those planks and sit-ups I did, you can see it under the sagging skin.”
During the show, she shared that she was “proud” of her body and showed viewers her stomach, which was met with applause from the live audience.
“I have to say, that’s 64 years of gravity. That’s science,” she said. “If you focus on this photo, you’ll see the little flabby ones, and I’m proud of them, because I’m 64 years old. It’s a belly. Why, why, why?”
She also addressed internet haters alongside Barrymore, telling him that she had accepted the fact that not everyone likes her.
“I don’t like having participated in this manipulation of our brains, we have to look a certain way,” Bertinelli concluded. “We have to be a certain weight. I’m a size 10. How is that too thin? I’m a size 10. How is that too big? I’m just me. This is my body.”
She also shared much of her life in her memoir, “Getting Naked,” published in March.
In the book, the former Food Network star detailed the complications she had from her breast implants and the “horror” she faced after one ruptured after a fall.
She had to have two implant removals, including one for an infected implant.
“The second surgery involved removing the implant and the infection in the tissue surrounding the muscle. Recovery took longer. Then my breasts started to sag in on themselves. The doctor called it craters,” says Bertinelli.
“The description was accurate. Another appropriate word was raw. Like, really disgusting. It looked like a horror movie – and it was. I had an open sore the size of a malformed quarter and a hole over an inch deep where my nipple used to be. My nipple, or what was left of it, was literally hanging on for half an inch of life.
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