Posted on 03/25/2009 11:31:00 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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!"
And yet as any woman knows, those innocent-looking strips of Lycra can be a terrifying sight – especially for someone just shy of her 49th birthday (April 23), who only two years ago tipped the scales at 172 lbs. – more than 40 lbs. over her goal weight for her 5'4" frame. But after whittling herself down to 132 lbs. in about 9 months on Jenny Craig (for whom she serves as a company spokeswoman), Bertinelli, who had last worn a bikini when she was 20, was ready for a new challenge.
"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.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Gatún is a woman, dude.
She looks nice good for her. Of course I was a teen when she was a teen on One Day At A Time. She was great on that show.
Shiny.
LOL! Humorous thread. Thanks to all posters.
Please PLEASE stay uncool. You are of far more value just the way you are. You spend more time learning things that are important.
Sorry about that Gatún. I usually remember such important information.
I still disagree with your statement that Mrs. Van Halen has too much fat in that picture.
I (of course) meant the former Mrs. Van Halen. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Talk about not being "in the loop").
I guess I don't know who she *is* either, just who she was.
But then again, who really cares.
The world is falling apart, communists have taken over the country. And all we give a sh*t about is a bunch of has been ex drug addict celebrities?
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