Valerie Bertinelli - my new hero!

Holy Smokes!!  OK - so I know that it’s been a while since I last posted - sorry about that.  But oh my goodness!  Have you seen what Valerie Bertinelli has done now?!  She’s on the front cover of People magazine in a bikini.  Valerie Bertinelli in a bikini!

It’s not enough that she was a super-successful television actress back in the 70s and 80s - AND she married Eddie Van Halen at the top of HIS game!  But then, as she fades into (relative) obsurity and puts on weight (just like the rest of us, right?), she finds Jenny Craig - and becomes their spokeswoman!

Now the last couple of times I saw her on TV - I thought she looked FANTASTIC! And with each advertisement, I could scarcely believe this was the same Valerie Bertinelli we had seen in the “before” pictures.  She lost 50 lbs!!!

And all of that is phenomenal - but to take it that extra step and get bikini pictures is amazing… but then to have those bikini pictures show up on the COVER of People magazine?!?  That takes a LOT of guts and self-confidence!  Especially at the “ripe-ole-age” of 48 (yes - I KNOW that’s not old!  :-))

Valerie Bertinelli’s bikini shot on People magazine is a reminder to us all that if we can dream it, and believe it - we can achieve it!  LOL - don’t know where I heard that, but it seems fitting today!

Thanks you Valerie!  You’re my hero!!!