Valerie Bertinelli won’t let negativity get her down!
The “One Day at a Time” alum, 64, responded to haters after they body-shamed her for showing off her curves in nothing but her bra and underwear while opening up about her self-love journey.
Sharing two images of her covered body in a black shirt and baggy jeans on Wednesday, Bertinelli wrote, “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.”
Admitting she has had to deal with judgment from others her entire life, the star explained, “It has taken me a long time to realize that my judgment, with patient discernment, is the only judgment that counts.”
Bertinelli reminded her followers that it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
“More importantly, what is my character like? Am I kind to people? When I’m not kind, what is in my way? Is it my ego or my emotions? Or both? How can I change and grow to be the best version of me today. In this body,” the actress continued. “I have no power over someone else’s judgment of me and now I have no interest.”
Bertinelli shared it’s taken her nearly “3 years of emotional labor to get to this point mentally and for the first eight months of this year I had physical setbacks.”
Shutting down the haters, she added, “I don’t care what you think of my body. I don’t care what you think about my posting about it. For the first time in my life, I love my body as it is.”
While acknowledging her figure is “not the 20 year old body that I hated,” Bertinelli admitted, “and it really is a shame that I hated that beautiful body.”
Concluding her powerful message, she said, “Yes, it was a very different body than the one I now inhabit, but it hadn’t yet been through the journey I needed to go through. Even as challenging as it’s been and is, I am grateful for this journey and I wouldn’t trade this body for my 20 year old body any day. Ever.”
The “Hot in Cleveland” star proudly flaunted her curves while wearing her bra and underwear in a photo shared to Instagram earlier this week.
Bertinelli shared that “every lump bump wrinkle and saggy part of me just feels acceptance and simple appreciation to be standing in front of a mirror in a hotel bathroom in downtown Manhattan ready to color my roots late on a Monday night.”
Despite getting some negative responses, most of her comment section was full of love.
Bertinelli has been open with her fans lately, revealing she suffered an anxiety attack and even showed off a cut on her arm after tripping on stage.
Last month, she celebrated “two years of freedom” to mark her divorce from Tom Vitale being finalized in 2022. The pair married in 2011 before she filed for legal separation in 2021.
“Two years of walking through self doubt and doing my best to get to the other side. Two years of knowing that I didn’t deserve to tolerate the intolerable,” she told her Instagram followers, adding, “I promise you. It gets better.”
After her divorce from Vitale, Bertinelli was in a long-distance relationship with Mike Goodnough. They broke up in early November after ten months together.
