Valerie Bertinelli debuted a slimmed-down figure on Instagram on November 10, drawing widespread praise from fans for her appearance in flared blue jeans and a gray cable knit sweater.
The 66-year-old actress twirled for her followers in the video update, offering a brief view of her flat stomach and writing in the caption that she was “feelin’ good,” Page Six reported.
Commenters quickly flooded the post with positive reactions to the television host’s latest social media update. One user wrote, “Look great. Lost tons of weight. Look 15 years younger ❤️,” while another added, “You look good, but more importantly, you look like you feel good.”
Bertinelli has spent recent years discussing her physical journey and body image openly with the public. In March, she published her memoir, Getting Naked, detailing personal struggles alongside health complications she faced following breast implant surgeries.
Her memoir explored the medical fallout after a fall caused one of her breast implants to rupture, triggering a severe anxiety attack in 2024. She subsequently underwent two separate removal procedures, including an operation to clear an infection from the tissue surrounding the muscle.
Recovery proved difficult as the remaining tissue began to collapse. “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 wrote in her book.
She described the visual impact of the surgical complication bluntly in her writing.
“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,” she said in Getting Naked.
The television personality has continually challenged conventional appearance standards since her eight-year run hosting Valerie’s Home Cooking on the Food Network ended. In 2024, she posted a selfie in her undergarments to celebrate aging and physical flaws.
During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show shortly after that viral post, she explained her evolving mindset regarding physical changes. “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 told Barrymore.
She reflected on societal pressures regarding weight during the television interview. “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,” she concluded.