Valerie Bertinelli Claps Back at Commenters ‘Annoyed’ by Her Throwbacks

Valerie Bertinelli shared a message for negative commenters along with her latest throwback.

In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Sept. 17, the celebrity chef showed a studio pass that she still uses, giving a glimpse of a glamorous ID photo taken in 2019.

Using the pass now “is a slight annoyance because I don’t look like this anymore, and I especially don’t look like this when I walk into the studio in the morning sans makeup 😅😝,” Bertinelli wrote.

The Food Network alum then added, “And a postscript to those who are annoyed by my posting throwbacks. This site is free, you don’t pay for my content, and being nice costs nothing. 😜”

She concluded the caption, “It literally takes more time out of your day to leave a rude comment than to just scroll on by. Be blessed and be a blessing. ✌🏻”

Bertinelli, who shot to fame playing Barbara Cooper on One Day at a Time, which ran from 1975 to 1984, frequently shares memorable moments from her decades-long career with her social media followers.

In recent months, she’s revisited a childhood photo with her brother, a 1979 shoot for CBS and memories with Wolfgang Van Halen, the son she shares with the late Eddie Van Halen.

While working on a new production for Lifetime in June, Bertinelli expressed enthusiasm for her many years in the entertainment industry.

“Even after 53 years, there’s still an excitement and clarity in it all,” she wrote on Instagram. “The gratitude and camaraderie I feel to be working with so many talented and lovely artists in each and every department that makes up this crazy business is something that just feels like home. I will never ever take any of this for granted.”

In August, Bertinelli credited Betty White for teaching her a lesson about gratitude.

“I thought I was grateful,” Bertinelli said in a clip from The Drew Barrymore Show. “She was just living, breathing gratitude, every second of her life, every moment I was around her.”

She added of her late Hot in Cleveland costar, ““She was grateful for the good, the bad, the ugly, all of it. And I have learned through going through really challenging things of the past five years, I’m grateful for the hard stuff. It’s sucked, and I wish I didn’t have to go through it, but there was no other way for me to learn a better way. And I think mistakes are there purposefully to help us learn what not to do.”