Valerie Bertinelli is proudly showing off her ongoing weight loss journey.
“#ootd feelin good 😊,” Bertinelli, 66, captioned a Tuesday, November 10, Instagram video, revealing the ensemble she wore for her recent Drew Barrymore Show appearance.
Bertinelli paired dark Mersea wide-leg jeans with a gray, cap-sleeve BCBG sweater from Macy’s and tortoiseshell glasses.
As the Food Network star offered a glimpse of her ‘fit, she casually lifted up the hem of her sweater to reveal her bare midsection.
Bertinelli received a flurry of support in the comments section.
“Feeling good and looking even better! That sweater is a whole vibe! 💕✨,” the official Macy’s account replied, while the BCBG brand added, “Look good feel good – will channel this energy all week long 💌.”
Another fan chimed in, “Freaking gorgeous. You also look beautiful.”
Bertinelli has long been candid about her body image and weight loss experiences, revealing in 2023 that she went “down a size” after cutting out alcohol from her diet.
“So, here’s a nice little side effect of Dry January. These jeans that I’m wearing were so tight a few months ago that I couldn’t comfortably button them,” she said in a February 2023 TikTok video. “Now, they’re so loose it’s time for me to go down a size. Yeah, I like that side effect.”
Even amid Bertinelli’s slimdown, she has taken issue with any body-shaming comments.
“Someone … decided to point out that I needed to lose weight because, see, I don’t have a scale or I don’t have clothes that I’m trying to put on every day,” the One Day at a Time alum sarcastically joked in a 2021 social media video. “I needed that help to let me know that I need to lose weight.”
According to Bertinelli, such feedback is “not helpful” in the slightest.
“When you see somebody who has put some weight on, my first thought is, ‘That person is obviously going through some things,’” she said at the time. “But since I haven’t been successful with that my whole entire life — at 61 I’m still dealing with [it]. You think I’m not tired of it, lady? Where is the compassion? Not f***ing helpful.”
Bertinelli previously tied her weight gain to grieving the deaths of her parents and ex Eddie Van Halen.
“I’ve used food as a way not to feel the sadness or the stress. But by eating something away, all it does is make me feel worse about myself,” she wrote in a 2020 essay for Today. “One of my personal mottos is ‘choose happy.’ But sometimes that choice is really challenging. To me, I think that joy is tied to making healthy choices with my life in everything I do. Healthy in the people I surround myself with, the food I eat and, perhaps most importantly, the way I talk to myself.”
