Valerie Bertinelli SLAMS Speculation That She Uses Botox

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00:00 I know you didn't mean that as a compliment, but let's talk about it, shall we?

00:03 Valerie Bertinelli doesn't have time for all the haters.

00:07 The Food Network star took to social media on Sunday to slam speculation that she gets

00:13 Botox by directly responding to a comment that reads, "The Botox looks great."

00:18 While Valerie admits she got Botox six years ago, she never liked how it looked on her face.

00:23 Yeah, it was six years ago. And as you can see from that picture,

00:28 it doesn't look like me. It sort of changed the shape of my eyebrows. And what I thought it was

00:33 going to do was help me with my genetically puffy eyes, which they've always annoyed me. I've always

00:41 wanted those nice deep set eyes. Don't have them, never going to get them. So just live with it. I

00:46 mean, no matter-- I haven't had alcohol basically this whole year, pretty much, because I always

00:51 thought maybe I'm drinking too much. I still have puffy eyes. She then directly addresses the TikTok

00:57 user's comment, saying she doesn't appreciate being shamed on social media, especially by women.

01:02 But here's the deal. This is why I want to talk about your comment, because you're trying to

01:06 shame me. And you're a woman. What made you go of your way to try to shame me? And I'm not the first

01:14 person to try to be shamed on TikTok or Instagram or any place. So we're women. We have to stick

01:20 together, OK? Don't shame somebody if they want to do something, anything, to make themselves feel

01:29 better as they go out into this insane, flipping crazy world, OK? Some people can do Botox. It

01:38 looks amazing on them. I am not one of them, unfortunately. Or I would have kept doing it.

01:43 But thankfully, it faded. I couldn't wait for it to fade. The 63-year-old actress also got candid

01:49 about using filters, admitting she likes to use them on her videos from time to time to smooth

01:54 out her face. Yes, right now I am using the Water Glow filter. So let me take it off and show you

02:00 what I look like and why I like to use it. And this is without the filter. So I like using the

02:06 Water Glow filter because it just kind of softens everything, especially my under-eye circles. I

02:11 get good sleep. I get bad sleep. I don't know. I'm trying. I'm trying melatonin. I'm trying

02:20 magnesium. I'm trying it all. I actually had a fairly good night's sleep last night with

02:24 taking things in magnesium. But still, I get circles. Genetics. Valerie's TikTok comes months

02:31 after she revealed she lost 10 pounds as a, quote, "side effect" of giving up alcohol in January.

02:37 So here's a nice little side effect to dry January. These jeans that I'm wearing were so tight a few

02:45 months ago that I couldn't comfortably button them. Now they are so loose, it's time for me to

02:52 go down a size. A Hot in Cleveland star says she was hopping on the bandwagon and doing dry January

02:59 for two reasons. But I'm doing it for two reasons. One, I want to try and cut down the cravings for

03:06 my sugar. And I think alcohol acts as exacerbates that. Jesus. And two, I want to calm down the

03:17 cortisol in my body that has been raging for the last five, six years. I've been in fight,

03:21 flight, freeze, fawn mode. I want to go into rest and digest. And I think cutting alcohol

03:26 got cut off. I talked too long. But I think cutting alcohol will help me do that. So I'm

03:32 going to try it out for January. I've been drinking less and less the last six, seven months

03:37 anyway. So this is, it's mainly about sugar. Valerie's completion of dry January comes

03:46 months after she finalized her divorce from Tom Vitale in November.

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