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Valerie Bertinelli says she hasn’t gotten on a scale since she wrote her memoir “Sufficient Already.”
The actress, author and Meals Community host obtained emotional speaking about weight and physique picture throughout her look Thursday on “Today with Hoda & Jenna.”
“I’m wanting on the monitor and attempting to not decide myself too harshly proper now as a result of I do know that I’m nonetheless holding on to this weight as a result of it’s defending me proper now,” she mentioned tearfully. “As a result of I’m going by means of a number of challenges, a number of heartbreak, a number of loopy stuff occurring in my life proper now.”
Bertinelli not too long ago filed for divorce from Tom Vitale, whom she married in 2011, and has been grieving the lack of her former husband, rocker Eddie Van Halen, who died of most cancers in 2020.
She mentioned all of it started in 2016 when her father was dying and issues have snowballed since then.
However Bertinelli mentioned she is aware of it is going to get higher.
“I do know this weight is defending me proper now and after I get more healthy internally and emotionally that weight will come off,” she mentioned. “I do know I’m treating my physique higher. I’m ingesting much less alcohol, I’m consuming much less sugar, I’m placing extra greens in my physique, however my physique is doing this for a cause … as a result of it wants safety.”
The previous “One Day At A Time” star mentioned she wasn’t sharing as a result of she wished folks to really feel sorry for her.
“I’m right here to say that once we attain out to folks that we love, and even that we don’t, strangers even… that we don’t must really feel so alone,” she mentioned.