Valerie Bertinelli is releasing a new cookbook.
The One Day At A Time actress, 63, looked vibrant and slender on the cover of Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share.
Fans will have to wait for it, though: The book is not coming out until April 2024.
‘I no longer deny myself and instead indulge in the entire experience of cooking,’ Bertinelli told People. The actress is big on body positivity.
‘I have spent more than a decade changing my relationship with food,’ the Food Network star added.
‘All big leaps require baby steps, patience, forgiveness and a desire to grow and change.’
She shared she has stopped counting calories.
‘And I stopped thinking of certain foods as good or bad. I quit saying no and began saying yes.
‘And I let myself indulge,’ she adds. ‘I indulge in the pleasures of being alive, and food is one of those pleasures — an essential pleasure.
‘This cookbook marks the journey that I—and so many of us—have taken to get to this place where I no longer deny myself,’ she added.
And she said she has a desire to share what she makes with those she loves.
There are 100 recipes to ‘nourish the body and the soul,’ per an official description from HarperCollins Publishers imprint Harvest.
Indulge is available for preorder now.
In October, she posted her very first ‘before photo’ as a Jenny Craig spokesperson.
‘Health is not a body size. Health is not the number you see on the scale. Your worth as a human being isn’t dictated by your body,’ she said while standing in the mirror, wearing a pink button-up shirt and jeans.
‘I thought I was fat the last time I wore these clothes,’ she said. And yet, ‘I’ve never felt more beautiful, more at peace, more mentally and emotionally stable than I do today.’
In February she said on TikTok that she had lost 10lbs.
The beauty was thrilled that she will now have to go down one size in her blue jeans. The weight loss is due to her participating in Dry January, which is when booze is cut out.
And the Hot In Cleveland star also shared that the weight loss is just one of the great ‘side effects’ of her alcohol-free plan.
The star said: ‘These jeans that I’m wearing were so tight a few months ago that I couldn’t comfortably button them. Now, they’re so loose it’s time for me to go down a size.’
This comes after she said she needed to ‘heal’ after she stumbled across texts where she was called ‘fat and lazy.’ She strongly hinted the mean messages were from her ex-husband Vitale.
‘Yeah, I like that side effect,’ said Bertinelli who appeared thrilled with it all.
A fan asked if she feels better. ‘I may also do dry July,’ said Valerie.
The star famously lost 50lbs in 2009 and posed in a green bikini for the cover of People magazine to display her progress.
But over the years the weight crept back on as she went through a painful divorce and saw her ex-husband Eddie Van Halen die.
When she announced in January she was cutting out booze, she said she liked it so far. ‘I’m doing it for two reasons.
One, I want to try and cut down the cravings for my sugar. And I think alcohol exacerbates that,’ said the TV vet.
And she hoped to be healthier overall. ‘I want to calm down the cortisol in my body that has been raging for the last five, six years. I’ve been in fight, flight, freeze, fawn mode. And I want to go into rest and digest,’ she said. ‘I think cutting alcohol will help me do that.’
And she made it sound like a good challenge.
‘If you’re doing a dry January, let’s have fun. Let’s do it together,’ she said.
This comes after she told fans she is doing better after divorcing Vitale.
Bertinelli gave fans an insight into her doomed marriage to Vitale in a series of Instagram posts shared in February.
The actress referenced shocking text messages she saw and opened up about the vicious things she was called in past relationships.
Bertinelli has also said that the Dry January cleanse has given her the ability to look at her mental health.
In her most recent clip, Bertinelli jumped on a viral trend and mouthed, ‘Oh my god, oh my god, why did you do that?’ before adding, ‘I don’t know.’
Written on the screen during the ‘Oh my god’ portion of the audio was ‘Why did you let them stay after finding the texts?’
It’s unclear exactly what text messages the mother-of-one she was referencing though.
The One Day at a Time actress captioned the short clip with three melting faces emojis.
Her divorce from Vitale was officially finalized in November, after 11 years of marriage. She stated on Twitter at the time: ‘I am officially f***ing divorced!’
The Golden Globe winner could be seen in a short selfie video as she held a cheerful smile on her face.
Valerie tied the knot with businessman Tom in 2011, but the actress filed for a legal separation in November 2021. In May 2022, she took another step and filed for divorce, citing ‘irreconcilable differences.’
The Hot in Cleveland star was forced to pay more than $2 million to finalize the divorce.
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