‘Food Network’ star Valerie Bertinelli, 66, ‘looks 15 years younger’ as she wows fans with weight loss update
“Food Network” star Valerie Bertinelli wowed fans as she looked 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 clad in a pair of flared blue jeans, and a short-sleeve, gray cable knit sweater.
The “One Day at a Time” alum gave viewers a peek of her flat stomach, and twirled around to show off her backside, too.
In the caption, she wrote that she was “feelin’ good” — and it seemed like many fans agreed with her, as they left comments gushing over her ageless look.
“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.”
“Looking fantastic!! Cute outfit looks perfect on you ❤️,” someone else commented.
A person seconded, “Looking amazing Val. Keep bathing in that fountain of youth you found. lol.”
Bertinelli has been open with her fans about her physical and emotional struggles, sharing many of the hard times she’s faced so that others feel “less alone.”
In 2024, Bertinelli went viral for posting a selfie in her bra and underwear, celebrating every “lump, bump, wrinkle, and saggy part.”
During an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” just days later, the actress explained that she posted the vulnerable snap while trying to work 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 on 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 it’s 64 years of gravity. It’s science,” she 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?”
She also addressed internet haters alongside Barrymore, telling her that she had come to terms with the fact that not everybody may like her.
“I don’t like that I was part of that manipulation of our brains of, 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 fat? I’m just me. It’s my body.”
She also shared a lot of her life in her memoir, “Getting Naked,” which was 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 of them ruptured after taking a fall.
She had to undergo two implant removals — including one for an infected implant.
“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,” Bertinelli explains.
“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.”