Valerie Bertinelli is feeling confident in the skin she’s in!
The actress and celebrity chef, who recently turned 65, is continuing to focus on her health and happiness.
She started her Wednesday, April 30 Instagram carousel with a smiling, makeup-free selfie, sporting a pair of black eyeglasses and a red bikini.
“My pool is 66° 🥶 Now, for a cold plunge that’s relatively warm,” her post began, as she jokingly added, “(that’s what they say whoever they are).”
Bertinelli explained that she has been experimenting a lot lately, but the cold plunges in her pool have “helped improve my mood” and “reduced inflammation” before she shared one of the most important perks of all: “It’s easier than filling my bath up with ice cubes 😝.”
After her selfie was a video of the Valerie’s Home Cooking alum taking a solo sunset dip in her outdoor pool.
She dove in at one end, quickly gasping at the temperature, shrieking, “Oh! Okay, cold!”
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Another snap of the Hot in Cleveland star smiling as hard as can be as she wrapped a blanket over her body, still showing off her teeny red bikini. Her final image was her bundled up in the blanket, still smiling.
“You go girl. Come @plunge with me at my place. Always better to do with others. 😂,” Saved by the Bell star Tiffani Thiessen commented.
Another person added, “Go you, girl! Freezin for a reason! 🙌🥶💪.”
Bertinelli, who has worked as a spokesperson for Jenny Craig and has also spoken up for people who use Ozempic and similar products, has never been shy about her weight loss journey.
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In a December episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Bertinelli opened up about her previous bikini mirror selfie that went viral.
“Well, you know what, 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,’ ” she said.
Getting up from her seat to lift her shirt, she added, “Like all those, you know, planks and sit-ups I’ve done, you can see underneath the saggy skin.”
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Bertinelli joked, “But 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.”
More recently, while reflecting on her 65th birthday last week, she declared, “Went through it all 😅 in the last handful of years and I’m so grateful for the downs as much as I am for all of the ups I am blessed to experience.”
“The light at the end of the tunnel is finally here. I can see it. I feel it.”
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