- Valerie Bertinelli is hitting back at a "not f------ helpful" social-media troll.
- Bertinelli said the Instagram user commented that the actress "needs to lose weight."
- Other celebs and Bertinelli's son commended her vulnerability and supported her in the comments.
Valerie Bertinelli hit back at a "not f------ helpful" social-media troll who told Bertinelli she "needs to lose weight."
In an emotional Instagram video posted on Friday, the "One Day at a Time" actress mocked the idea that she "needed the help" from the social-media troll "to let me know I need to lose weight."
"Because see, I don't have a scale, I don't have clothes that I'm trying to put on every day," Bertinelli sarcastically said in the video. "I don't have mirrors so I don't see what's become of me."
"You're not being helpful," she continued, responding to the mean comment about her weight.
Bertinelli added that when she sees someone who "has put some weight on," her first thought is that the "person is obviously going through some things."
"If I could lose the weight and keep it off, I would," Bertinelli said in Friday's video. "But since I haven't been successful with that my whole entire life, at 61 I'm still dealing with it. You think I'm not tired of it, lady?"
Bertinelli's video, which ended with her asking others to show "compassion" on social media, resonated with her 800,000 followers, including some well-known ones like Khloé Kardashian and Demi Lovato.
"You are absolutely beautiful, radiant, gentle, you inspire and encourage so many people," Kardashian wrote. "Please don't allow people who are hurting to hurt you."
Lovato commented that the person who trolled Bertinelli over her weight is "hurting or not being shown enough compassion in their lives."
"I love you. You said it yourself, you're already enough," Lovato said.
Bertinelli's son, Wolfgang Van Halen, also responded to her video and said she is "perfect the way" she is.
After Bertinelli posted the video encouraging body positivity and compassion on Friday, a Twitter user tagged the actress in a tweet noting that Bertinelli was previously a spokesperson for the weight-loss company Jenny Craig.
—BodegaCat (@PossumAndPug) July 10, 2021
In response to this scrutiny of her past with Jenny Craig, Bertinelli said that her goal behind making the Instagram response video was to "get my feelings out instead of squashing them down and eating them."
"I have been buying into the diet industry my whole life and then I became part of the problem, so here I am today receiving the karma of my actions," Bertinelli tweeted.
—Valerie Bertinelli (@Wolfiesmom) July 10, 2021
—Valerie Bertinelli (@Wolfiesmom) July 10, 2021
