Valerie Bertinelli shared a new weight loss update on November 10, posting a video on Instagram where she wore flared blue jeans and a short-sleeve gray cable-knit sweater, Page Six reported.
The 66-year-old television host gave viewers a look at her flat stomach and twirled to show off her slimmed-down figure while stating in her caption that she was “feelin’ good.” Fans flooded the comments section of the post, with one user writing, “Look great. Lost tons of weight. Look 15 years younger ❤️,” and another commenting, “You look good, but more importantly, you look like you feel good.”
Bertinelli has been open with her followers about physical and emotional struggles, sharing hard times so others feel less alone. In her March memoir, “Getting Naked,” she bared all and described a scary experience with breast implants.
In 2024, she went viral for posting a selfie in her bra and underwear to celebrate every “lump, bump, wrinkle, and saggy part.” During an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” just days later, she explained that she posted the snap while working on celebrating her body.
“I have been coming to terms with my body now, aging, and I saw myself in the light and I went, ‘Oh, I’m not mad at that,’”
Bertinelli shared at the time.
“Like, all those, you know, planks and sit-ups I’ve done, you can see underneath the saggy skin.”
While hosting her award-winning Food Network cooking show, “Valerie’s Home Cooking,” which ran for nearly eight years, she proudly showed viewers her stomach.
“I have to say it’s 64 years of gravity. It’s science.”
Bertinelli said.
“If you focus in on that picture, you’re gonna see the little saggies, and I’m proud of them, because I’m 64. It’s a belly. Why, why, why?”
Bertinelli concluded,
“I don’t like that I was part of that manipulation of our brains of, we have to look a certain way. 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 fat? I’m just me. It’s my body.”
The memoir published in March detailed complications from breast implants, including the horror she faced after one ruptured following a fall. She experienced a huge anxiety attack in 2024 that brought her to her knees.
She underwent two breast implant removal surgeries, including one for an infected implant. Bertinelli explained,
“The second surgery involved removing the implant and the infection from the tissue surrounding the muscle. Recovery took more time. Then my boob started to fall in on itself. The doctor referred to it as cratering.”
She added regarding the physical toll: “The description was accurate. Another apt word was gross. Like, really gross. It looked like a horror movie — and it was. I had an open wound the size of a misshaped quarter and a hole more than an inch deep where my nipple used to be. My nipple, or what was left of it, was holding on to within a literal half inch of its life.”
