Valerie Bertinelli has lost weight since her divorce from Tom Vitale.
and she said people That’s thanks to “more consistent therapy, more journaling and meditation.”
The Hot in Cleveland also shared with the site that he eats what he wants and if he feels like pasta, he eats it. But the former Jenny Craig poster girl plans to make sure she gets the nutrition she needs.
In the past, she has said on social media that she has been doing more power walking and doing Pilates to lose weight, adding that she also lost weight after quitting alcohol and is working hard to stay healthy.
She also said that after she lost weight, she tried on her “old clothes” from a 2009 Jenny Craig shoot and they fit perfectly.
Far from being disappointed by the perfect fit, she said she felt comfortable. And when she looks back on how she was shamed for wearing her clothes, she now says that being shamed is wrong and that “food culture” is not healthy. she feels
In the magazine shoot, she was not only slender but also vibrant as if she was living her best life.
The star is promoting a new cookbook titled Indulge, adding that it’s a kind of therapy after leaving Vitale, adding, “I wanted to write an essay about forgiveness and the sweetness of life.” he added. and basking in the joy of his life. ”
She doesn’t want to limit herself, so her diet is open.
“I don’t deny myself anything anymore,” she told People magazine while posing in a button-down shirt and jeans.
“You have to watch your calories, so you think about what you want to eat, not what you eat.
“If you want pasta alle vongole, I’ll make it. And I’m not going to feel an ounce of guilt about it.”
She added, “But I also no longer crave things that don’t necessarily give my body all the nutrients it needs.”
She also said in a cover story for People that she was in love with a writer from the East Coast, whom she met online.
They first came into contact many years ago and became friends.
They only became romantic earlier this year, but she won’t share his identity yet.
“I fell in love when I least expected it!” the brunette beauty revealed to the magazine.
“I’m in love,” Bertinelli added. “I was determined never to fall in love again, so my emotions are on a seesaw.
“I was supposed to die with six cats and a dog and live the rest of my life alone and very happy. I’m fine being alone,” she said.
“My stomach flips. This shouldn’t have happened.”
And she said this: “That comfort level is incredible. It feels incredibly right.”
Valerie added that she works on herself through therapy and long walks with her dog.
And her new book, Indulge, inspired her to open up more. “This cookbook was a byproduct of the emotional and spiritual healing I’ve been doing,” she said.
“First came the work. Why did I feel like I wasn’t worthy of being loved? Why was I using food to numb my emotions? The things I couldn’t deal with related to Ed and my last marriage. All the drama and trauma that wasn’t there.”
Ed is Eddie Van Halen’s late first husband. And her last marriage was to Tom Vitale.
She announced the news that she was in love for the first time in mid-March.
The star gave a passionate interview to USA Today about her new romance, but declined to reveal her name or other personal details.
“I met a guy and I’m so grateful for him. It’s completely different than any other relationship I’ve ever had with a man,” she exclaimed.
“I don’t want to say too much, but I feel really happy and lucky to have found him, because I had no expectations!” she added.
“He wasn’t on my radar. I was going to die with six cats and a dog, and I’d be incredibly happy to have done it,” she told One Day At. The A Time star confessed. “So, this came out of left field, and I’m grateful that I was able to do that.” He’s a very special guy. ”
Of her decision to announce her relationship on Instagram this week, she marveled: “What was I doing?…I can’t help it.” When I’m in a happy mood, I can’t stop thinking about it. That’s one of the main reasons.
“I want both women and men to know that it’s up to your own efforts to meet someone like I was lucky enough to meet now.” Before, last year, this wouldn’t have happened – it wouldn’t have happened. And I feel incredibly lucky to have met him and made that connection.”
bertinelli filed for divorce from her second husband, financial planner Tom Vitale, in November 2021.
A year later, their divorce was finalized, and the settlement resulted in Valerie paying Tom a whopping $2.2 million.
As recently as June, she joked on TikTok that she answered “Yeah, shit, no” when asked if she’d start dating again soon.
But now she has changed her mind and reposted the old TikTok to her Instagram Story, calling it “outdated.”
Valerie’s first husband was the late legendary rock star Eddie Van Halen, with whom she has a child named Wolfgang, now 32 years old.
She has been candid about her turbulent marriage to Eddie, which finally flared up in 2001 when Eddie’s addiction took a toll on the relationship.
Valerie told Rob Lowe on his podcast that while she was with Eddie, she herself was addicted to drugs “for a few years until I couldn’t take it anymore.”
Eddie stopped drinking in 2008, a year after his divorce from Valerie was finalized, but he passed away at the age of 65 at the end of 2020 after battling throat cancer.
She began dating Tom Vitale in 2004, married him in 2011, and became stepmother to his two sons and two daughters.
Ten years later, Valerie filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, and the divorce was finalized on November 22, 2022. She gleefully described the day on social media as her “second best day of her life.”
Early the following year, Valerie cryptically spoke in a “found” email about “healing” from a relationship with a “narcissist” who called her “fat and lazy.”
