Valerie Bertinelli is as proud as ever after stripping right down to her underwear and importing a mirror selfie to Instagram.
Bertinelli was a visitor on “The Drew Barrymore Present” Friday and addressed her viral put up that she uploaded earlier this month.
Barrymore’s co-host, Ross Matthews, requested Bertinelli why she determined to add the risqué picture.Â
“Effectively, you already know what, I’ve been coming to phrases with my physique now, ageing, and I noticed myself within the mild. And I went, ‘Oh I am not mad at that,'” she mentioned.
VALERIE BERTINELLI, 64, STRIPS DOWN TO UNDERWEAR IN LATEST MOVE PROVING SHE’S A HOLLYWOOD MAVERICK
Valerie Bertinelli is embracing her physique in her 60s. (David Livingston/Getty Pictures)
Bertinelli determined to offer Barrymore and her viewers a better take a look at her physique and lifted her crimson sweater to disclose her midriff.Â
The gesture bought applause from Barrymore.Â
“Like all these, you already know, planks and sit-ups I’ve finished, you’ll be able to see beneath the saggy pores and skin,” Bertinelli mentioned. “However I’ve to say … it is 64 years of gravity. It is science. For those who focus in on that image, you are gonna see the little saggies, and I am happy with them as a result of I am 64. It’s a stomach.”
Bertinelli went on to debate the commentary she’s acquired through the years relating to her physique.
“Why, why, why? And there is so many individuals, ‘You are too skinny. You are too fats. You are out of practice. You are in form. Oh my God. I would like these abs. Oh my God, you are ugly.’ So, what I’ve discovered is my dad was improper. You’ll be able to’t make all people such as you. And I am OK with that, lastly at this age.
 “Effectively, you already know what, I’ve been coming to phrases with my physique now, ageing, and I noticed myself within the mild. And I went, ‘Oh I am not mad at that.'”
“I do not like that I used to be a part of that manipulation of our brains of now we have to look a sure means. Now we have to be a sure weight,” she added. “I am a measurement 10. How is that too skinny? I am a measurement 10. How is that too fats? I am simply me. It is my physique.”
On Dec. 2, Bertinelli shared an image of herself posing in a mirror in simply her bra and underwear.
“Sooner or later I’ll speak in regards to the insanity my physique has been by means of this yr. However proper now each lump bump wrinkle and saggy a part of me simply feels acceptance and easy appreciation to be standing in entrance of a mirror in a resort rest room in downtown Manhattan prepared to paint my roots late on a Monday evening,” she captioned her put up.
The Meals Community star launched into a journey of self-love and therapeutic all through the final yr and has drawn the help of thousands and thousands of followers as she shares relatable anecdotes on-line of her on a regular basis life.Â
Her journey towards acceptance hasn’t been a simple highway, although. Earlier this yr, Bertinelli selected to abstain from alcohol and focus extra on her future and fewer on her previous.
Valerie Bertinelli posed in her underwear for followers on social media. (Distinctive Nicole)
She’s shared movies and inspirational messages encouraging followers to “always remember the miracle of being right here.”
In a single message, Bertinelli wrote, “I’ve all the time been actually good at beating myself up about my previous and the way I might’ve finished higher. I grew to become a grasp at judging myself. Decide, jury, and executioner.
“I don’t wanna do this anymore. I wish to lead a full genuine life, with my coronary heart open to experiencing the whole lot. No extra judging. Accepting who I’m, flaws and all. What makes me, me.”
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Bertinelli addressed her followers, encouraging them to think about coping mechanisms or unhealthy habits, like consuming or binge-eating, that they could have developed that “can forestall us from opening our hearts totally.”
The Meals Community star has been on an “intentional” therapeutic journey. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Pictures for NYCWFF)
A part of her “intentional” therapeutic journey was by means of engaged on her newest cookbook, “Indulge.” She informed Individuals journal the method of therapeutic wasn’t linear and included “loads of remedy classes, loads of studying that I need to really feel good.”
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“First got here the work,” she mentioned. “Why I assumed I did not need to be liked. Why I used to be utilizing meals to numb my emotions. All of the drama and trauma I hadn’t handled — with Ed and my final marriage.
“The cookbook was an offshoot of the emotional and psychological therapeutic I‘ve been doing,” she mentioned. “I do know we’re speaking a few cookbook, however this cookbook bought me by means of all of it.”
Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli had been married 26 years and shared one son, Wolfgang. (Paul Natkin)
“Ed” refers to late musician Eddie Van Halen, her first husband and the daddy of her solely baby, Wolfgang Van Halen. Her final marriage was to monetary planner Tom Vitale, whom she divorced in 2022.
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“The extra I let myself cry, the higher I felt. I wasn’t making an attempt to be joyful or unhappy or skinny. I wasn’t making an attempt to be something aside from who I used to be,” she wrote within the e-book.Â
Whereas the Emmy Award-winning actress discovered love once more within the arms of author Mike Goodnough, the couple referred to as it quits in November after 10 months of relationship.
Fox Information Digital’s Tracy Wright contributed to this put up.
