Valerie Bertinelli, 66, Lifts Her Top to Show Off Her Figure in Outfit-of-the-Day Video, and Fans Notice Her Jeans Are a Size Too Big — Photos

The actress has spent years changing the way she talks about weight, food, and the number on the scale. Now, a simple outfit-of-the-day post is putting her changing figure back in the spotlight.

Valerie Bertinelli kept things casual while modeling her latest look, but one small move gave followers a much closer look.

The "One Day at a Time" star lifted her sweater, showed the waistband of her jeans, and turned sideways — prompting viewers to zero in on how differently the pants appeared to fit.

Valerie Bertinelli Shows Off Her Figure in Loose-Fitting Jeans

Bertinelli shared the Instagram video on Tuesday, November 10, modeling a gray, short-sleeved cable-knit sweater with a denim collar and high-waisted jeans. "Outfit of the day. Feelin' good," she wrote alongside the clip, tagging the brands behind her outfit.

The Emmy winner initially showed the full look before lifting the hem of her sweater. The move exposed her stomach and the waistband of her loose-fitting jeans. She then turned to the side, giving viewers another look at how the jeans fit her figure.

That fit quickly became one of the biggest talking points in the comments. One Instagram user wrote, "Honey you're gorgeous! Your pants are too big....show off those curves ❤️."

Another focused directly on Bertinelli's apparent weight loss, writing, "Look great. Lost tons of weight. Look 15 years younger ❤️." Another person commented, "Girl, you look healthy and happy! SO PRETTY💗."

Macy's verified Instagram account also joined the response, writing, "Feeling good and looking even better! That sweater is a whole vibe! 💕✨"

The reaction continued on Facebook, where viewers again singled out the jeans. "A tad too loose lol," one person wrote. Another declared, "You look so healthy!!!"

One viewer shared a longer reaction: "Looking great! It's so exciting, isn't it? Getting your cute body back? I've just done the same, and you and I are the same age I think... it's awesome! Congrats!" Another added, "Looks picture perfect!!"

Others returned to the same detail viewers had spotted on Instagram. "You look great, not a fan of the pants, too big. Show what you got girl 😊❤️," one commenter wrote. Another said, "Adorable but are pants a little large for that tiny body❤️."

The comments put fresh attention on Bertinelli's figure, but her own public statements provide important context. Her relationship with weight has changed considerably after decades of scrutiny, dieting, and fluctuations in her size.

She Previously Said She Had Reached a Comfortable Weight

Only months before her latest outfit video, Bertinelli discussed her body in an interview with People. At the time, the actress said she did not weigh herself often.

She recalled checking after Christmas because her jeans had become "awfully tight," but said she was not willing to let the number consume her. Bertinelli also addressed a period when her weight had moved in the opposite direction.

She said she lost "way too much weight" in 2024 because of stress and did not want to return to that size. By March 2026, she described herself as being at a comfortable point.

"I'm finally at a comfortable place where my clothes fit. They're not too big. They're not too small. I'm just normal. Even though I have a little pooch, who cares?" she said.

That statement makes the reaction to her November video particularly notable: Eight months later, multiple followers were independently pointing out that her jeans now appeared too large.

The supplied sources do not state how much weight Bertinelli has lost since March or establish a specific cause for any recent change in her figure.

They do, however, show that the actress has repeatedly discussed her changing size and her decision to stop allowing a particular weight to determine how she views herself.

Bertinelli Said She Has Not Used GLP-1s

Bertinelli also addressed one of the biggest subjects surrounding modern weight loss during another People interview published March 5. She said she had not tried GLP-1 medications, although she made clear that she did not judge people who use them.

"I think whatever anybody does to help themselves get to a better place to where they feel good about themselves, they should do it," she said. Bertinelli said she wanted people to remove judgment from decisions involving weight loss and cosmetic procedures.

She also left open the possibility that her own choices could change in the future. "It doesn't mean I won't have a neck lift. It doesn't mean I won't try GLP-1s," she said. "It means no for now. It's also helped a lot of people."

The actress took a similar position on plastic surgery and Botox. She said she had previously tried Botox but decided it was not for her. Her comments came as she promoted "Getting Naked," a memoir centered in part on shedding shame and accepting what she calls being "perfectly imperfect."

That acceptance followed a long history in which Bertinelli's body was not simply personal — her weight was once directly connected to a lucrative professional role.

A 50-Pound Loss Once Became Part of Her Career

Bertinelli joined Jenny Craig as a spokesperson in 2007 and lost 50 pounds. In January 2026, she revisited that period during an appearance on "The Drew Barrymore Show," according to The Daily Beast.

The discussion began when Drew Barrymore and Ross Mathews showed a photograph of Bertinelli wearing a short-sleeved white dress at her 2012 Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. Barrymore told her she looked stunning.

Bertinelli's memory of seeing herself at the time was dramatically different. "And I felt so horrified," she replied. The ceremony marked a major professional achievement.

Bertinelli's television career included two Golden Globe wins for supporting actress in 1981 and 1982 for "One Day at a Time," and she later won two Daytime Emmy awards for "Valerie's Home Cooking" in 2019.

Yet Bertinelli said her weight affected how she experienced the 2012 milestone. She explained that she had joined a diet program years earlier, lost 50 pounds, and became its spokesperson. As she regained weight, she said the business relationship eventually ended.

"This was the last year, I believe, that I was with the diet company, and they fired me eventually. They said, 'We can't keep going with you because you're gaining weight again,'" Bertinelli recalled. Although she did not name the company while telling the story, Bertinelli became a Jenny Craig spokesperson in 2007.

She also revealed just how small she had become during that period. Bertinelli said she reached a size four, a size she later described as "way too small for me and impossible to maintain." By early 2026, she estimated that her baseline was around a size 10.

She said her younger self, while involved with the diet program, would have been horrified by that number. Her priorities, she explained, had shifted. "I know what kind of person I am. It doesn't matter how much I weigh," she said. "What matters is who I am, how I treat people, period."

She Once Pulled Her Old Diet Clothes From the Closet

Years before the latest loose-jeans comments, Bertinelli used another pair of jeans to make a very different point about weight. In October 2023, she put on the clothes from her original 2007 Jenny Craig "Before" photograph and discussed what the outfit once represented to her, according to Entertainment Tonight.

The outfit consisted of a pale pink button-up shirt and jeans. "I found the clothes I was wearing in my very first 'Before' picture for Jenny Craig," Bertinelli explained. She said she had done extensive mental and emotional work after years of pretending things were fine when they were not.

Her central point was blunt: Health, in her view, could not be reduced to body size or a scale reading. "Health is not body size. Health is not that number you see on a scale. Your worth as a human being isn't dictated by your body. It's not defined by your body," she said.

Bertinelli added that she had considered herself fat the last time she wore the clothes. By 2023, she said she felt more beautiful, peaceful, and mentally and emotionally stable while wearing the very outfit she once associated with being too large.

In the accompanying post, she explained that she had been clearing items out of her closets as part of what she called emotional and mental "purging."

She also said she continued working on not using food or alcohol to suppress or numb her feelings. That changing relationship with food became another major part of the way Bertinelli talked about her body.

She Stopped Counting Calories and Redefined Food

While discussing her cookbook "Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share" in a 2024 interview with Mashed, Bertinelli described how grief had affected her relationship with food and cooking.

Her father died in 2016, her mother in 2019, and her former husband, Eddie Van Halen, in 2020. Bertinelli said she had stopped doing things that brought her joy, including cooking. She also said she had tried to ignore and numb difficult feelings with food and alcohol.

As she worked on her emotional health in 2023, she returned to the kitchen and began reconsidering how she viewed food. She stopped dividing it into "bad" and "good" categories and instead described it as nutrition that allows the body to function.

Bertinelli also recalled once being afraid to eat foods as ordinary as apples with peanut butter and bananas because of messages she had received from certain diets. Eventually, she said, she stopped counting calories and stopped regularly stepping on a scale.

Her focus became how she felt and behaved rather than how she looked or how her jeans fit. That message was especially striking given how often Bertinelli had spent her career discussing — and being publicly judged over — those exact measurements.

She Challenged the Meaning of Being Overweight

In February 2024, Bertinelli shared another example of how dramatically her view of weight had changed. Posting bikini photographs on Instagram from 2014, she identified the body in the pictures as weighing 150 pounds on a 5-foot-4-inch frame.

She questioned the standards that classified that figure as overweight and said she no longer weighed herself. Bertinelli told followers that she had spent too long believing outside judgments about her body.

Instead, she described herself in terms that had nothing to do with measurements: kind, considerate, funny, and thoughtful.

"So please remember, who you are and what your character is, should never be overshadowed by what size you are or how much you weigh," she wrote. "You are enough. Just the way you are." Later that year, she took the message further.

Bertinelli Said She Finally Loved Her Body

In December 2024, Bertinelli posted two mirror selfies on Instagram and directly addressed people judging her appearance. She said she had faced judgment since she was young and had spent almost three years doing emotional work to reach a different place mentally.

Bertinelli also said the first eight months of 2024 had brought physical setbacks. By December, however, her position on outside criticism was unequivocal.

"I don't care what you think of my body. I don't care what you think about my posting about it," she wrote. Bertinelli said that, for the first time in her life, she loved her body as it was.

She contrasted that acceptance with the way she had regarded herself at 20, saying she had hated the body she had back then and now considered that a shame.

The body she had in her sixties was different, she acknowledged, but it had also been through the experiences that came with the intervening decades. She said she would not trade it for her 20-year-old body.

Her Body Had Also Been Through Serious Medical Complications

By March 2026, Bertinelli's discussion of body acceptance included another deeply personal chapter. She revealed that she had received breast implants in the late 1980s and had them removed in 2024.

Bertinelli told People she initially liked the implants but later came to dislike them. Years of gaining and losing weight had also changed how she felt about her breasts. After a fall, she had the implants removed.

She subsequently developed a serious infection that required another surgery, and she described the affected breast as beginning to cave in on itself. Bertinelli said another operation would be needed to even out her breasts.

The experience also affected her thinking about additional cosmetic surgery. Although she said she had strongly wanted a neck lift, she expressed fear about undergoing another procedure after the complications she had experienced.

Instead, she said, "I'm going to learn how to appreciate this." She described that process as "the quiet work of becoming perfectly imperfect."

Her body, meanwhile, still did the things she valued. Bertinelli noted that she could carry her 35-pound dog Luna after the animal underwent an amputation to remove a cancerous mass, and she could stand for two hours watching her son Wolfgang Van Halen perform.

Her Latest Look Brings the Story Back to a Pair of Jeans

Bertinelli's November 10 video did not include a discussion of diets, calorie counting, GLP-1 medications, scales, or clothing sizes. She simply modeled her outfit and said she was "Feelin' good." Yet the jeans immediately caught viewers' attention.

The same woman who said in March that she had reached a point where her clothes were neither too big nor too small appeared in November in high-waisted jeans that multiple followers thought looked noticeably loose. Some praised her apparent weight loss.

Others told her the pants were too big and encouraged her to show off her figure. Bertinelli herself did not provide a current weight or clothing size in the post, and the supplied sources do not establish how much her weight has changed or what caused any recent loss.

What they do document is a much longer transformation in how she discusses her body.

She has gone from losing 50 pounds as the face of a diet company, reaching a size she later said was impossible to maintain, and feeling "horrified" by her appearance during a career milestone to publicly rejecting the idea that a number on a scale determines her worth.

She has worn her old "Before" clothes again, posted bikini photographs of her 150-pound body, spoken openly about weight fluctuations, and said she no longer wants to restrict herself according to old ideas about size.

In 2026, she also made clear that she had not used GLP-1s while refusing to criticize people who do. Now, at 66, the latest snapshot of that years-long story is strikingly simple: a gray sweater, a pair of loose-fitting jeans, a quick turn for the camera, and Bertinelli's own three-word assessment — "Feelin' good."