Valerie Bertinelli's Underwear Selfie—and the Message Alongside It—Wins the Week

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We’ve reached the end of another long week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving props where they’re due. Here’s to our .It's worth repeating all year but especially during the holidays, when there's so much : your body is worthy.

Don't take my word for it—ask Valerie Bertinelli. The winner of two Golden Globes and two Daytime Emmys took to Instagram to show off not her body but her confidence, and it marks a beautiful evolution.Bertinelli, like so many of us, grew up at war with her size.

She was . She was . And I knew her not from her sitcom roles but for , then , and . It was far from the most harmful messaging I saw in the 2000s, but it created the association in my mind: Valerie Bertinelli = wants to lose weight.Until she didn't.Bertinelli quit dieting in 2020, around her sixtieth birthday, when she realized that while she could still desire to lose weight, .

Happiness became the goal, and the basis for . She . Comments still got to her, but . She She told us to ourselves. She recently joined Drew Barrymore and Pamela Anderson in Then, on December 2, she uploaded a simple bathroom mirror selfie in her underwear and wrote, "every lump bump wrinkle and saggy part of me just feels acceptance and simple appreciation." May we all find such peace in 2025!This content can also be viewed on the site it from.After the trolls came out, as they are wont to do, Bertinelli responded with grace and compassion, and a reminder that it's actually slightly more important to be a good person than to be ripped. "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 the.