Valerie Bertinelli’s weight journey from 172 pounds in 2004, down to the 123 pounds she is today, wasn’t just about working out and eating right, it was also about valuing herself, she tells the November issue of Ladies Home Journal. “I’ve realized I’m more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza. But I love myself more,” the 49-year-old mom says. Read more »
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Valerie Bertinelli: I’m More Important Than Food
October 8th, 2009 / Author: Mary Beth QuirkNo Wedding Bells for Valerie & Tom
August 11th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
Valerie Bertinelli and Tom Vitale won’t be exchanging vows anytime soon.
“We’ve both been married, not very successfully,” the actress, 48, tells OK!. Still, the star of the Lifetime movie True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet says she’d wed in Italy if she ever takes the plunge again.
“We’ve never been, and that’s where we want to go.” The couple started dating four years ago, three years after Bertinelli’s 26 year marriage to rockstar Eddie Van Halen ended.
Valerie Bertinelli Defends Kirstie Alley
July 13th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
Jenny Craig spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli is speaking out to defend Kirstie Alley, who was rumored to have gotten kicked to the curbed by the weight-loss company earlier in the year for allegedly not being able to maintain her figure.
“I don’t think that’s true," Valerie tells OK!. "I’ve seen Kirstie and I think she looks terrific."
And regarding recent less-than-flattering photographs of Kirstie, Valerie says, "I don’t know what those photographs might say. I don’t really see a lot of them; I’ve heard of them. But I disagree. When I’ve been with Kirstie, she looks terrific.”
Meanwhile, all eyes are on the former One Day at a Time star as she tries to maintain the 40 pounds she lost through Jenny Craig. Valerie, who spoke to OK! while promoting her upcoming Lifetime TV movie, True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet, said, “I think this is the best weight-management program. It’s the one that’s worked for me the longest. I’ve never kept weight off this long.
“I wasn’t satisfied a year and a half ago. I am now. I’m not a perfect size zero. I’m never going to be. I’m not a two; I’m not a four; I’m between a six and an eight. In the business I’m in, that’s heavy. But you know what? I’m comfortable at this weight. I can move about in the world at a much easier pace when I was 40 pounds heavier but I’m not going to be told what I have to weigh by society or what the glamour magazines tell you you have to weigh,” Valerie said.
While she eats the Jenny Craig food, for exercise, Valerie said, “I walk a lot. I love to go hiking and I have a walkvest, a weighted vest that I really love, by Debbie Rocker. I wear that all the time. I feel freer!”
By Carole Glines
Valerie Bertinelli: Better Than Ever!
May 13th, 2008
Valerie Bertinelli Better Than Ever!
May 13th, 2008While You Were Sleeping
February 26th, 2008 / Author: cwillett
Valerie Bertinelli admitted that she was no angel during her marriage to Eddie Van Halen. On yesterday’s Oprah Winfrey Show the Jenny Craig spokes-body admitted that she cheated on the musician during their 20-year relationship. "He claims to this day that I cheated first, but I don’t know. I don’t know about the timing." Bertinelli was on the show plugging her new book, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time.
Fans fumed over the exclusion of actor Brad Renfro from an Oscar tribute to actors who died over the past year. Renfro was dissed but Heath Ledger, who died just one week after Renfro, was included in the tribute. When asked why Renfro, who starred in The Client with Susan Sarandon, was snubbed (though he had been included in a Critic’s Choice Award In Memoriam tribute), Oscar spokesperson Leslie Unger said, “We can’t include everybody.” Another Oscar snub? Whoopi Goldberg was excluded from a montage of past Oscar hosts!
Move over, Maxim. Girls Gone Wild magazine is on the scene. GGW mogul Joe Francis, who is still behind bars on tax-evasion charges, launches the print version of his flaunting-female antics on April 15 — just in time for tax day!
Queen Latifah Vows to Get Fit
January 10th, 2008 / Author: cwillett
Queen Latifah may be the latest Jenny Craig spokesperson, but don’t expect her to become a skinny minnie like former promoters Kirstie Alley and Valerie Bertinelli. Instead, the Queen wants to use the program to get fit and inspire others to do so as well.
“I’m taking the first step toward a healthier lifestyle,” Queen said at a press conference at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. “I’m getting calls from everybody in my family and a lot of my friends who are really excited and want to do this with me.”
For the 37-year-old rapper/actress, being healthy is of utmost importance after losing her great-grandmother to diabetes. "Losing five to ten percent of my body weight is a good challenge for me, to be healthier and not to be so concerned with diabetes."
Queen does want to stress, though, that signing up with Jenny Craig "is not about a body image sort of thing" as she’s completely comfortable and "confident" in who she is.
“I think everybody knows that about me," she says. "But I do realize I’m a role model to a lot of people… being a healthier person is a good thing. If I can set the example of confidence from the inside, why not set it for confidence from the outside as well?"
The star, who has tipped the scales at about 200 pounds in the past, doesn’t feel she’ll be depriving herself with Jenny Craig. “It’s good food!”
And you’ll still see the same Queen you know and love, she promised. “I do not want to get skinny. I do not necessarily want to fit into a bikini, but a tankini could work! I don’t mind looking sexy.”
By Carole Glines
