Valerie Bertinelli Shares Empowering Message After Coming Across Her Old 'Fat Cl

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00:00 I've never felt more beautiful, more at peace, more mentally and emotionally stable than

00:08 I do today.

00:11 And I'm wearing my fat clothes.

00:15 Valerie Bertinelli making an emotional confession after finding some clothes with a sentimental

00:20 meaning.

00:21 I found the clothes I was wearing in my very first before picture for Jenny Craig.

00:26 It was these.

00:29 This pink shirt and these jeans.

00:31 In a video posted to Instagram, the star, formerly a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, gets

00:36 real about the discovery.

00:38 I thought I was fat the last time I wore these clothes.

00:52 I've never felt more beautiful, more at peace, more mentally and emotionally stable than

01:00 I do today.

01:03 And I'm wearing my fat clothes.

01:08 That's f***ed up.

01:11 We can all be our own ideal size.

01:13 An ideal size isn't what the media or the fashion magazines tell us that we are.

01:19 She also reflects on how her perspective about weight loss has changed, writing in part in

01:24 the caption, "It's nice to see how far I've come emotionally.

01:27 I am enough."

01:29 Health is not a body size.

01:30 Health is not that number you see on a scale.

01:34 Your worth as a human being isn't dictated by your body.

01:41 It's not defined by your body.

01:44 I have a tendency to beat myself up.

01:46 If I'm not perfect and if I don't have a good day or a good week and I can feel the weight

01:52 creep back on a little bit and then have to take it back off like everybody does.

01:55 But I feel a big responsibility to still be encouraging but yet not be a hypocrite.

02:01 Valerie's definitely no stranger when it comes to opening up about body image.

02:05 There's always challenges around the corner that you have to be aware of.

02:08 It's not about being perfect.

02:09 It's about just moving forward in progress.

02:12 Happiness is a choice.

02:13 So I choose to be happy.

02:15 Do I want my jeans to be a little looser?

02:17 Hell yeah!

02:18 But I'm happy today.

02:19 Yeah, the actress isn't shy about discussing the subject.

02:21 And even shared this vulnerable message on social media in 2021 after a stranger commented

02:27 on her weight.

02:28 Someone decided to point out that I need to lose weight.

02:33 Because see I don't have a scale.

02:35 I don't have clothes that I'm trying to put on every day.

02:38 And I don't have mirrors so I don't see what's become of me.

02:42 So I needed that help to let me know that I need to lose weight.

02:51 You're not being helpful.

02:52 Valerie visibly emotional about it all also lets fans in on her struggles.

02:57 If I could lose the weight and keep it off, I would.

03:03 But since I haven't been successful with that my whole entire life, you think I'm not tired

03:11 of it lady?

03:12 In the caption, she admitted she almost didn't post about the body shaming moment she encountered.

03:17 She felt it was embarrassing and scary to be so honest, but realized it was hitting

03:21 a good nerve with lots of her followers.

03:23 Writing quote, "We all could use a little more kindness and patience and grace because

03:27 we just never know what someone else is going through.

03:29 So here it is, not deleting, owning it."

03:32 I'm not going to obsess over the scale anymore.

03:35 It never, no matter what that number was, it never made me happy.

03:39 Even it was never small enough.

03:40 And if it was too big, I didn't want to see anybody.

03:42 So it's not going to run my life any longer at all.

03:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:48 (gentle music)

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