Valerie Bertinelli, 64, claps back after being shamed for bra-and-underwear selfie: ‘I love my body’

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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 added, “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.