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Valerie Bertinelli received a shocked reaction from Drew Barrymore after she revealed her dramatic blonde hair makeover on the Nov. 13 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show
Bertinelli debuted her new look on Instagram prior, revealing that she had experimented with a wig
After a day of being a blonde, the celebrity chef shared an Instagram selfie of her brown hair alongside a powerful message on self-acceptance
Valerie Bertinelli's new look was so sizzling that the reactions it caused were hot, hot, hot!
The actress and celebrity chef, 65, made headlines earlier this week when she posted a selfie of herblonde hair transformationto Instagram. And during her appearance onThe Drew Barrymore Showon Nov. 13, she got a smokin' real-time reaction from hostDrew Barrymore.
During the episode, Barrymore's jaw dropped when she sawBertinelli's makeover. "Oh my god," the talk show host, 50, said. Bertinelli's new look was courtesy of Chris Appleton, who styled the star's blonde wig, and Charlotte Tilbury, who was in charge of Bertinelli's glam.
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"I know Val very well. I've been sitting next to her for a few years now, and you just look like you, but you are so sexy and radiant," Barrymore said when she got over her initial shock at Bertinelli's new look.
TheHot in Clevelandactress then opened up about her hair journey. "It's fun. Last time I did grow my hair out during the Covid [lockdown], I was experimenting with how gray can I get," she shared. "I never got quite past the two-month mark of letting it grow out. Will I look 65 or will I look sexy?"
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After spending a day as a blonde, Bertinelli posted aphoto of herself with her natural brunette hair, along with an honest caption about taking up space.
"Back to the real me. It's always fun to play dress up and fool around with hair and makeup, but when I look in the mirror, I want to see…me," she began in theInstagrampost.
"I've spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight and making myself smaller to make people comfortable," the star continued. "What I want to see now is that little girl that never felt she had a voice and give her a voice. That little girl that was always on her best behavior, tell her some people don't deserve your best behavior. Thatperpetual people pleaser, that thought it was normal for people to walk all over her, tell her boundaries are healthy."
"Tell that little girl that thought she had to do and say anything to make someone love her, that she was always lovable all on her own. That little girl has brown hair," Bertinelli concluded.
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Over the years, the former Food Network star has beenopen about her body image. In December, she took a moment to celebrate her figure at 64 despite what she called the "madness" she had been through in the past year.
"But right now every lump, bump, wrinkle and saggy part of me just feels acceptance and simple appreciation to be standing in front of a mirror in a hotel bathroom in downtown Manhattan ready to color my roots late on a Monday night," she wrote alongside a photo of her in a photo of herself in a bikini.
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