Valerie Bertinelli is celebrating the progress she has made on her continuing weight-loss journey.
“#ootd feelin good 😊,” the 66-year-old actress and Food Network star wrote in the caption of a Tuesday, November 10, Instagram video. The clip showed off the outfit she wore during her recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.
For the look, Bertinelli chose dark Mersea wide-leg jeans, a gray cap-sleeve BCBG sweater from Macy’s and tortoiseshell eyeglasses.
While giving followers a closer look at her outfit, Bertinelli playfully lifted the sweater’s hem, briefly revealing her midsection.
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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.
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“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.”