Valerie Bertinelli opened up about her body during an In Conversation event with Drew Barrymore on March 10.
Valerie Bertinelli’s boobs are “deformed”.
The 65-year-old actress got candid about her body image while the star spoke about her memoir, Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect, with actress Drew Barrymore, 51, at the 92NY, New York, on March 10.
Valerie said: “If you read the book, you’ll know that my boobs are deformed, and I talk very extensively and graphically about how deformed they are. I had four surgeries in 2024.
“But Drew is like, ‘How bad can it be?’ I’m like, ‘Really?'”
Valerie mimicked opening her blouse and flashing her cleavage, and said that Drew admitted: “Oh, yeah, that’s bad.
“I love her honesty. It’s like, I can trust this woman.”
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial star Drew noted: “And then I proceeded to be like, ‘OK, here’s what we can do.”
One Day at a Time alum Valerie added: “My boobs suck, but I’m not dating, so it doesn’t matter.”
To which Drew interjected: “Yet!”
In Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect, Valerie revealed she had breast implants in the late 1980s and had them removed in 2024 following a fall.
The former Food Network alum explained to People: “I liked it for a little while and then started to hate it.
“At a certain point, I had gained and lost so much weight that my boobs were just … I felt like they were down to my belly button. I was like, ‘I just want my small boobs back.'”
Valerie was struck down with a serious infection after she got the breast implants removed, and was forced to have surgery.
She recalled: “The look on my doctor’s face when he finally saw me made me think ‘Oh s***’ I guess I should have come in earlier.’
“And he took everything out [the implant and the surrounding tissues], and then my breast became infected and started to cave in on itself. It became a crater.”
The C.H.O.M.P.S. film star noted that she needs to have “one more surgery to even out” her boobs.
Valerie quipped: “Me and these guys (pointing to two of her cats, Henry and Batman, along with Luna) are the only ones looking at my boobs anyways, but I don’t care because I can’t see without my glasses on … I’ll have to date somebody who can’t see.
“Anyway, those were my boobs. Anybody want to date me? It was so serious I just had to find the humour in it.”
The TV personality got married to the late musician Eddie Van Halen in 1981, and they have a 35-year-old son, singer-songwriter Wolfgang Van Halen.
But Valerie and Eddie’s relationship broke down because of his use of drugs and alcohol, as well as his infidelity. They divorced in 2007 – 13 years before his death, following a battle with throat cancer aged 65.
Valerie tied the knot with financial planner Tom Vitale, 62, in 2011, but she divorced him in 2022, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
Valerie Bertinelli: ‘My boobs are deformed’
