Rachael Ray’s response to Valerie Bertinelli Food Network comments
Rachael Ray, while promoting her new TV show, responded to Valerie Bertinelli’s comments about the state of Food Network.
Valerie Bertinelli is turning heads after turning 65.
The “Drew Barrymore Show” regular took to Instagram on April 30 to share a photo of herself in a red bikini, readying to cold plunge for personal health benefits.
“My pool is 66°. Now, for a cold plunge that’s relatively warm. (that’s what they say whoever they are) but along with everything else I’ve been experimenting with, this has helped improve my mood, has reduced inflammation and it’s easier than filling my bath up with ice cubes,” the former “Kids Baking Championship” judge wrote.
In her carousel, which included a video of her cold plunging, Bertinelli donned a colored towel in her backyard.
The post came a week after her birthday. On her 65th birthday on April 23, Bertinelli penned an Instagram note to her 1.6 million followers.
“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,” she captioned the post. “I love my family. I love my friends. I love all of you out there supporting me and being a part of our community here.”
The birthday post came days after Bertinelli’s ex-boyfriend Mike Goodnough wrote a lengthy post of his own about their breakup on Instagram on April 19.
Valerie Bertinelli defended past bikini photo: ‘I don’t care what you think’
Last year, Bertinelli sparked backlash for posting a separate bikini photo with a message about body positivity.
On Dec. 2, she took to Instagram to post a mirror picture in bikini, writing in the caption that though she plans to “talk about the madness my body has been through this year,” she’s finding gratitude in herself exactly how she is.
“But right now every lump bump wrinkle and saggy part of me just feels acceptance and simple appreciation to be standing in front of a mirror in a hotel bathroom in downtown Manhattan ready to color my roots late on a Monday night,” she continued.
But Bertinelli didn’t hesitate to slam critics of her revealing photo in a follow-up post, later telling fans, “I don’t care what you think.”
“For the first time in my life, I love my body as it is. It’s not the 20 year old body that I hated and it really is a shame that I hated that beautiful body,” she wrote, telling fans that “yes, it was a very different body than the one I now inhabit, but it hadn’t yet been through the journey I needed to go through.”
“Even as challenging as it’s been and is, I am grateful for this journey and I wouldn’t trade this body for my 20 year old body any day,” Bertinelli added.
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