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Valerie Bertinelli Back in Bikini for 49th Birthday!(pic)
People Mag ^ | 3/25/2009 | Elizabeth Leonard

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 ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: valeriebertinelli
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

This is quite amazing. I know women at 40 don’t look nearly as good.


61 posted on 03/25/2009 12:04:20 PM PDT by cvq3842
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To: Tired of Taxes
:-) My hair is almost as long as yours. Almost.

All I need now is the motorcycle.
62 posted on 03/25/2009 12:04:58 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: avacado

Wow, she sure looks a heck of a lot better than he does.

He reminds me of a crazy homeless guy who stands out in the middle of the street waving his arms about wildly while shouting obscenities.

Of course, it couldn’t be the hard partying rock & roller life style that aged him ;-)


63 posted on 03/25/2009 12:08:17 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: rollo tomasi
Hubba Hubba...

(PS: I had *such* a crush on Valerie Bertinelli...sigh.)

64 posted on 03/25/2009 12:09:12 PM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Holy cow! Is that unretouched? I guess there is such a thing as a GILF.


65 posted on 03/25/2009 12:13:07 PM PDT by drew
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To: paulycy
(Digital) cameras, Photoshop/Coral (Great time savers) etc... some of the best inventions yet.
66 posted on 03/25/2009 12:15:30 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: drew

wow she’s still got it.


67 posted on 03/25/2009 12:17:04 PM PDT by CONSERVE
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To: exist
That recent picture of Robert Plant reminds me of the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz...

68 posted on 03/25/2009 12:17:14 PM PDT by ~Vor~ (A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.)
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Check out this before and after of Tricia Penrose at 38...

Source

69 posted on 03/25/2009 12:19:29 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Some of us would never look like that, even if we weighed the same amount. However, I applaud her, I’ve always liked her (and she was even cute fat).


70 posted on 03/25/2009 12:20:58 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: RandallFlagg

A little camel toe was most likely brushed out. Maryanne was always the idol of my eye when I was a little kid.....later, it was Valerie!!


71 posted on 03/25/2009 12:21:16 PM PDT by Michigan Bowhunter (Democrat socialist liberal scumbags.....how did we let this happen!)
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To: massgopguy

LOL! Me too.


72 posted on 03/25/2009 12:22:39 PM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: exist; All

as a huge Zeppelin fan I give Plant credit- he could’ve spent $1000’s on cosmetic surgery to make himself look younger- as so many celebs do- but he just goes w/the flow...


73 posted on 03/25/2009 12:26:51 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Phlap

We’re all glad to know that....


74 posted on 03/25/2009 12:27:12 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

A tad fat...and I am being kind.


75 posted on 03/25/2009 12:34:43 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: bilhosty
Looks good. google in images Helen mirren and see another older woman in her bikini.

I don't have to. My wife is 53 and still looks DAMN good in a bikini.

I am a lucky guy.

76 posted on 03/25/2009 12:38:20 PM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

not guilty....


77 posted on 03/25/2009 12:39:18 PM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: geege

Eddie’s fought cancer, and was into drugs in the early days, and all that stuff ages you hard.


78 posted on 03/25/2009 12:40:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: River_Wrangler

For me if the face is hard to look at, it doesn’t matter what the body looks like. Your wife must have a pretty face.


79 posted on 03/25/2009 12:43:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
I am a lucky guy.

I am a lucky guy.

I am a lucky guy.

I am a lucky guy.

I am a lucky guy.

80 posted on 03/25/2009 12:46:32 PM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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