Valerie Bertinelli Says that Her Weight Is ‘the Thing That Holds Me Back’

Bertinelli wrote in an essay for New Beauty that she used to think that “the number on the scale is never low enough — it’s always too high — so I’m going to just crawl under the covers and not have anyone see me until it is. I’ll be happy once all the weight is gone.”

But Bertinelli had vowed that once she finished writing her memoir Enough Already, which was released in January, she would stop weighing herself.

“[It] was a big thing for me, and I haven’t gotten on a scale since,” she said. “My clothes still fit; my jeans still zip up. I guess I was afraid that if I didn’t see what number I was and if I wasn’t able to keep an eye on it, that I would balloon up…but that hasn’t happened.”