Valerie Bertinelli is embracing her extra weight.
In a new interview with Today with Hoda & Jenna, the Food Network host got emotional about how her weight has become a sort of protection while she handles different stresses in her life.
There's one change she needs to make before the weight "falls off." Keep reading to find out what it is.
In 2020, she lost her ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen, at the age of 65 to cancer. The pair were married from 1981 to 2007, and they had one son together named Wolfgang.
She detailed that while there was a lot of love there, they also "went through a lot of hell as well."
"But I'm so happy that we were able to come to a beautiful place by the end of his life. I wish he was still here."
"The love we have always had for each other proved stronger and more resilient than anything else. We chose to remain friends and family."
She and her husband of 10 years, Tom Vitale, split this past May. The breakup has been hard on the star, who told Today that she has no plans to remarry.
All of this stress has taken a toll on the 'Food Network' star's body.
In a new interview with Today with Hoda & Jenna, she shared that she must get her mental health together.
"I haven't stepped on the scale since I finished writing the book," she got emotional while discussing her memoir Enough Already. She added that she's focusing on grace instead of judging herself.
"Because I'm going through a lot of challenges, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of crazy stuff going on in my life right now," she said.
"I know this weight is protecting me right now, and when I get healthier internally and emotionally that weight will come off," she said.
This includes drinking less alcohol, eating less sugar, as well as putting more vegetables into her body. "But my body is doing this for a reason … because it needs protection."
"I'm not here to say, 'oh, poor me.' I'm here to say that when we reach out to people we love, or strangers even, that we don't have to feel so alone in this world and go through it alone."
