
Valerie Bertinelli Shuts Down Critics Of Her Underwear Selfie
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At 64, the TV star delivers a gut-punch to body-shamers with a raw message of self-love.
Valerie Bertinelli is defending the skin-baring photo she recently posted after she was body-shamed by internet trolls.
The celebrity chef’s response comes after the 64-year-old shared a mirror selfie on Instagram Tuesday. In the post, she showed off her body in a two-piece while getting candid about the long road to finally “feeling acceptance” for “every lump, bump, wrinkle and saggy” part of her body.
“To all of you that would sit in judgment of my body, the photo, and my reason for posting it, I hope you find a place in your heart to not judge yourself as harshly as you judge others,” she wrote in a follow-up post after her initial post.
Sharing that she’s “dealt with judgment” her “entire life” since she was a young girl, Bertinelli continued, “It has taken me a long time to realize that my judgment, with patient discernment, is the only judgment that counts.”
“I have no power over someone else’s judgment of me and now I have no interest. Finally,” the former spokesperson for the weight loss program Jenny Craig added. “It’s taken me almost 3 years of emotional labor to get to this point mentally and for the first eight months of this year I had physical setbacks.”













