Valerie Bertinelli appeared again wistfully on her Hollywood profession this week with a cheeky throwback photograph.
The actor-turned-celebrity chef shared a publicity shot of herself on Instagram Thursday that dated again to 1979, roughly 4 years after her portrayal of Barbara Cooper Royer on CBS’s “One Day at a Time” catapulted her to stardom. In it, she wore a flannel shirt and black panties, together with a pair of stiletto heels.
After noting within the caption that the picture had been taken “at the end of one of many throwaway photo sessions I would have at CBS,” Bertinelli recalled how an identical photograph had been used alongside a less-than-flattering headline.
“A shot from this session ended up on the cover of Us with a headline about me growing up too fast,” she wrote.
As eyebrow-raising as that evaluation was, nevertheless, she believes it may not have been that far off the mark.
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“I mean, they weren’t really wrong…months later I would meet Ed, get engaged and be married within the span of eight months,” she wrote, alluding to rock musician Eddie Van Halen, who died in 2020 on the age of 65.
Bertinelli and Van Halen had been married from 1981 to 2007. In 2011, she and financier Tom Vitale tied the knot, however break up in 2022.
Extra not too long ago, Bertinelli was in a relationship with life-style author Mike Goodnough. The pair ended their romance in November of final 12 months after about 10 months collectively.
By all accounts, Bertinelli and Goodnough gave the impression to be on amicable phrases on the conclusion of their relationship. Earlier this month, nevertheless, Goodnough shared a cryptic notice on Instagram accusing his ex of “lapsing into a place where she has been playing a one-woman tennis match thinking there is someone on the other side of the net.”
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“I am not communicating with Valerie via my posts. I am not engaging with the things she posts,” he wrote. “While I am disappointed in the array of hostile, dishonest, and uncalled for backhanded swipes she continues to take at me, there is no war between us. She just won’t stop shooting.”
“Valerie is in a war with her ghosts,” he continued. “I’m just the guy who catches the bullets. And that isn’t new.”