Valerie Bertinelli had a simple message for followers when she shared her latest outfit video on November 10: “#ootd feelin good đ.” The actress smiled for the camera.
The 66-year-old’s admirers included a fan who wrote, “I swearâŚ. Valerie, you’re aging backwards!” according to Parade.
She tagged The Drew Barrymore Show in the post. The program’s episode that day featured Bertinelli alongside Barrymore and Ross Mathews for Drew’s News.
Her memoir, Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect, published by Harper Wave, arrived March 10. Its promotion brought several candid conversations about how her attitude toward her body had changed.
Fans Compare Her Look to Her Sitcom Years
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Bertinelli paired dark, wide-leg Mersea jeans with a gray BCBG sweater from Macy’s, as Us Weekly detailed. The short-sleeved, cable-knit top had a denim collar, and she finished the outfit with thick-framed glasses.
In the clip, she briefly lifted the sweater’s hem to reveal her midsection, turned sideways and danced to “Wait!, look at this! Look!” by aqunos.
One commenter compared her appearance to her days on One Day at a Time, while another jokingly asked whether she was 28 or 29. A different response focused on her mood: “You look good, but more importantly, you look like you feel good.”
She Explained Her Underwear Selfie on Drew
In December 2024, Bertinelli shared a hotel bathroom selfie wearing a black bra and underwear while preparing to color her hair. The photograph prompted supportive messages and criticism, which she addressed during a December 13 appearance on Barrymore’s show.
Asked why she posted it, Bertinelli explained that she had looked at herself in the mirror and liked what she saw. She stood up and lifted her red sweater, joking about the effect of gravity on her stomach at 64 as Barrymore applauded.
Bertinelli described receiving contradictory judgments about being too thin, too heavy or out of shape. She said she had finally accepted that she could not make everyone like her and expressed regret about having helped promote narrow expectations about appearance and weight.
Her Dieting Comments Span Several Years
During a 2022 interview about Enough Already, Bertinelli told EatingWell that reaching her lowest weight had never made her happy. She described setting aside the scale and trying to become more conscious of what she ate.
In April 2024, she told PEOPLE that she had learned patience after years of wanting quick results. Discussing her own experience, she described paying attention to her emotions and treating herself more gently when she noticed she was eating in response to them.
In a separate interview published March 5, 2026, Bertinelli said she had not tried GLP-1 medications at that time. “I don’t judge anybody for how they lose weight,” she said. She expressed the same attitude toward cosmetic procedures and remained open to reconsidering those options herself.
Her Clothesless Book Cover Felt Different
Posing clothesless for the memoir’s cover was Bertinelli’s suggestion. At 65, she connected that decision to the emotional openness of the writing, explaining that exposing herself physically seemed appropriate for a book about sharing experiences she had previously kept private.
In a March 6 PEOPLE interview, she compared that shoot with her 2009 bikini cover for the magazine. Bertinelli recalled weighing approximately 20 pounds less in the earlier photograph, yet said the newer session felt better. She described confronting her fear of doing it and enjoying the experience.
Her exercise goals had become practical, too. Frequent trips to New York for the Drew show meant lifting heavy luggage into overhead compartments, and she wanted enough upper-body strength to handle it herself. She described stretching and working out to improve how she moved.
