Valerie Bertinelli Reflects on ‘Growing Up Too Fast’ While Recalling Posing in Underwear for 1979 Photo Shoot

Valerie Bertinelli is looking back on a whirlwind time at the end of her teen years.

The celebrity chef, 64, shared a throwback shot from 1979, taken when she was a cast member on One Day at a Time, in which she poses in a plaid button-down, underwear and high-heeled sandals.

“From what I remember this was at the end of one of many throwaway photo sessions I would have at CBS, usually we would do the required poses they wanted and then have some fun at the end,” she wrote on Instagram on Thursday, April 10.

The Food Network alum added that one of the images from the shoot ended up on a magazine cover that featured “a headline about me growing up too fast” — which she says was a fair assessment.

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“I mean, they weren’t really wrong…months later I would meet [Eddie Van Halen], get engaged and be married within the span of eight months.”

Bertinelli was married to her first husband, late Van Halen frontman Eddie Van Halen, from 1981 until 2007. She was wed to financial planner Tom Vitale from 2011 until 2022.

More recently, the Indulge cookbook author dated writer Mike Goodnough for 10 months before sources confirmed the pair’s split in November 2024.

Last month, she broke her silence on the pair’s split in a since-deleted tribute on Instagram.

“I met the @therealhoarse in person a year ago today and I am irreversibly changed by him for the better. I know I am becoming a much stronger and more benevolent human for having met him and spent time with him,” Bertinelli wrote.

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She added that she was initially “attracted to his writing” before the meeting in person. “It’s heartfelt, authentic, smart, funny, sensitive, caring, and from the soul. And the way he puts words together is just sooo ridiculously beautiful. 🤩 I’m a big fan, can you tell?” Bertinelli wrote. “And as luck would have it, the human being in person is exactly as heartfelt, authentic, sensitive and caring as his writing.”

Bertinelli said she felt “lucky to have gotten to know him, and to really see him and soak up his insights.”

“I value all of our long conversations and they have lead me to interesting and fascinating places I rarely thought to go. I look at life with a different perspective and caring because of my experiences and conversations with him. And he’s been a big part of helping me heal from some old childhood wounds I never knew what to do with or even where to start,” she continued, encouraging her followers to subscribe to Goodnough’s newsletter, Hoarse Whisperings, and “get the beautiful gift of what it’s like to be in his orbit.”

Bertinelli concluded, “Thank you, Mike, we may no longer be a couple, but you’ll always hold a very special place in my heart. Love you. ♥️”

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