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Valerie Bertinelli Loves Herself More Than Pizza
Originally posted 10/08/2009 10:50AM
For years, she was the slender little sister on One Day at a Time, then a rocker wife to Eddie Van Halen. But now, as a mature woman of 49, Valerie Bertinelli is finally okay with having a woman's body.
"I've realized I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza. But I love myself more," she says in the November Issue of Ladies' Home Journal, out Oct. 13. "Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying you deserve to be healthy. In no way have I perfected this eating thing, and I don't know that I ever will. But life is about making progress. It's not about perfection.”
Bertinelli, who finished a half-marathon in July, also once again defends fellow actress and former Jenny Craig spokeswoman Kirstie Alley's weight gain.
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Fit & Trim Valerie Bertinelli Finishes Half-Marathon
Originally posted 07/20/2009 07:00AM
Drop 50 pounds, check. Don a bikini on the cover of PEOPLE magazine, check. Run a half-marathon … check!
After crossing the finish line of Sunday's Napa-to-Sonoma Wine Country Half-Marathon in yet another personal first, Valerie Bertinelli told PEOPLE "I can't believe I did it!"
Running the scenic 13.1 mile race in 2:12:19, "My legs are killing me, but I think I'm so high and excited and full of pride – which is an unusual thing for me! – that I probably won't feel it for a couple days," says the actress, 49. "I am in amazement. I can't believe what a body can do if you believe in it."
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POLL: Who Is Hotter in Her Green Bikini?
Originally posted 05/18/2009 07:00PM
Summer is almost here, which means it's bikini season! Already, the stars have been out showing off their enviable beach-ready bods. And, it seems, green is a favorite color among the Hollywood's hottest women. Hayden Panettiere took time away from the Cannes Film Festival for a dip in a green suit on Monday. Valerie Bertinelli donned a bikini for the first time in 30 years on the cover of PEOPLE, showing off her 132 lb. frame. Kelly Ripa, mom to three kids, flaunted her toned physique in a green two-piece in Miami last month. And, ever the trendsetter, Audrina Patridge looked great in green while filming Into the Blue in Hawaii last year.
Tell us: Who looks hotter in her green bikini?
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Valerie Bertinelli to Kirstie Alley: Come Work Out with Me!
Originally posted 05/07/2009 10:40AM
When Kirstie Alley spotted Valerie Bertinelli's killer bikini body on a recent cover of PEOPLE, "it blew my mind!," the TV star says. "She didn't just look good – she looked stunning! It was inspiring."
And a little ironic for Alley, who confesses to PEOPLE that she has put on 83 lbs. Once a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig, Alley, 58, actually helped bring Bertinelli, 49, on board as a new face for the company in March 2007.
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Valerie Bertinelli's Back-to-Bikini Workout
Originally posted 03/26/2009 12:35PM
Valerie Bertinelli had already shed 40 lbs. in 2007 on the Jenny Craig diet – she is a company spokeswoman, after all – when the 48-year-old former One Day at a Time star decided, after keeping the weight off for more than a year, to step up her game. Her goal? To slim down and trim up enough to slip into a bikini for the first time in nearly 30 years.
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Valerie Bertinelli Back in Bikini for 49th Birthday!
Originally posted 03/25/2009 01:45PM
The night before Valerie Bertinelli prepared to step out in public wearing a bikini – for the first time in nearly 30 years! – she found herself unable to sleep. As her mind raced with insecurity ("I thought, Am I really going to do this? Can I pull this off?" the actress admits), Bertinelli tried to summon up a pep talk, telling herself, "What am I so afraid of? Come on – it's just a bathing suit!"
And yet as any woman knows, those innocent-looking strips of Lycra can be a terrifying sight – especially for someone just shy of her 49th birthday (April 23), who only two years ago tipped the scales at 172 lbs. – more than 40 lbs. over her goal weight for her 5'4" frame. But after whittling herself down to 132 lbs. in about 9 months on Jenny Craig (for whom she serves as a company spokeswoman), Bertinelli, who had last worn a bikini when she was 20, was ready for a new challenge.
"I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there’s something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!," Bertinelli says in the new PEOPLE, available on newsstands Friday.
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Valerie Bertinelli Is 'Getting Comfortable in Her Body'
Originally posted 09/14/2008 10:00AM
It has been more than 20 years since Valerie Bertinelli walked on to the stage to present an Emmy award. But these days the former TV star is getting used to being back in the spotlight.
"I'm just getting more and more comfortable in this body," said Bertinelli, a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, before heading to the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday. "It's still a journey. I'm not done yet."
Part of that journey was writing the bestselling Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time. The actress proudly points out that in November it will be a year since she lost 40 lbs.
She showed off her new svelte 132-lb. figure on the red carpet at the Creative Arts Emmys in a dress by David Meister.
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Valerie Bertinelli Defends Kirstie Alley's Weight
Originally posted 07/25/2008 08:40AM
Kirstie Alley is no Fat Actress! So says pal – and fellow Jenny Craig spokeswoman – Valerie Bertinelli.
And while less-than-flattering photos of Alley have appeared in magazines and on the Internet, Bertinelli insists her friend has not regained the weight she famously lost while representing the diet company.
"I don't know what those photographs might say, and I don't necessarily see a lot of them," the former One Day at a Time star told Entertainment Tonight. "I have heard of them, but I disagree. When I have been with Kirstie, she looks terrific."
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Valerie Bertinelli: Eddie Is Not in Rehab
Originally posted 03/12/2008 03:35PM
Valerie Bertinelli denied that ex-husband Eddie Van Halen is in a rehabilitation facility, but declined to reveal his mystery ailment.
"The reports about him being in rehab are wrong. Eddie is sober," Bertinelli said at a luncheon hosted by the Hallmark Channel in New York on Wednesday. "He's being proactive about his illness."
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Valerie Bertinelli: Eddie's Health Issues Are Nobody's Business
Originally posted 03/06/2008 06:35AM
She may have written a tell-all book, but Valeire Bertinelli was suddenly very tight-lipped Wednesday night when asked about ex-husband Eddie Van Halen's mystery illness.
"I really don't think it's anybody's business," the Jenny Craig spokeswoman, 47, told PEOPLE at a Cincinnati book-signing for her new memoir, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time. "He's being proactive and that's good."
The 53-year-old Van Halen guitarist "is undergoing a battery of comprehensive medical tests," the band announced on its Web site Monday. (The rocker, who has a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, previously battled cancer. In 2002, he announced he'd beaten the disease.) As a result of the star's undisclosed illness, they cancelled four concerts, including one slated for Wednesday in Cincinnati.
In fact, Bertinelli said she's just as disappointed as other Van Halen fans. "We scheduled the signing early so we could make the concert in time," she said. (Her teenage son, Wolfie, is touring with dad as the band's bassist.)
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