'Food Network' star Valerie Bertinelli, 66, 'looks 15 years younger' as she wows fans with weight loss update

Food Network alum Valerie Bertinelli, 66, posted an Instagram "outfit of the day" video this week wearing flared blue jeans and a short-sleeve gray cable-knit sweater. In the clip she lifted her top to reveal a flat stomach and twirled to show her backside, captioning it that she was "feelin' good." Fans responded with comments such as "Look great. Lost tons of weight. Look 15 years younger" and "You look good, but more importantly, you look like you feel good," according to Page Six.

Bertinelli has spoken publicly about body image and aging. In 2024 she went viral for a selfie in her bra and underwear celebrating every "lump, bump, wrinkle, and saggy part." Days later on "The Drew Barrymore Show" she said she posted the photo while working on celebrating her body: "I have been coming to terms with my body now, aging, and I saw myself in the light and I went, 'Oh, I'm not mad at that.' Like, all those, you know, planks and sit-ups I've done, you can see underneath the saggy skin." She told Barrymore she was "proud" of her body and showed her stomach to audience applause, adding, "I have to say it's 64 years of gravity. It's science. If you focus in on that picture, you're gonna see the little saggies, and I'm proud of them, because I'm 64. It's a belly. Why, why, why?"

She also addressed online criticism, saying, "I don't like that I was part of that manipulation of our brains of, we have to look a certain way. We have to be a certain weight. I'm a size 10. How is that too thin? I'm a size 10. How is that too fat? I'm just me. It's my body."

Her memoir "Getting Naked," published in March, details complications from breast implants, including a rupture after a fall that required two removal surgeries — one for an infected implant. She described the second surgery as removing "the implant and the infection from the tissue surrounding the muscle" and a recovery complicated by "cratering" where "my boob started to fall in on itself." She wrote of an "open wound the size of a misshaped quarter and a hole more than an inch deep where my nipple used to be. My nipple, or what was left of it, was holding on to within a literal half inch of its life."