Look, I love Valerie Bertinelli as much as the next child of the 80s but this picture is totally photoshopped. I’m not saying she didn’t lose the weight, I’m not saying she doesn’t look great considering the fact that she’s a year out from 50, I’m just saying–that ain’t no size 8 body.
Bertinelli totally deserves credit for making good on her promise to drop six sizes. She’s been very public about her weight struggle (thanks in part to a lucrative endorsement deal with Jenny Craig), but I worry about the impact of plastering a total fake on the cover of a magazine that every desperate housewife in the country sees while waiting on line to pay for her groceries. The article only fuels the fire:
The night before Valerie Bertinelli prepared to step out in public wearing a bikini – for the first time in nearly 30 years! – she found herself unable to sleep. As her mind raced with insecurity (”I thought, Am I really going to do this? Can I pull this off?” the actress admits), Bertinelli tried to summon up a pep talk, telling herself, “What am I so afraid of? Come on – it’s just a bathing suit!”
“I thought, If I’m so afraid of a bikini, there’s something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!,” Bertinelli says in the new PEOPLE, available on newsstands Friday. [Source]
Maybe I’m being a hater but really, is there any way this woman has the body of a teenager right now? What do you guys think? Completely photoshopped or more real than fake? Make me a believer.
