Valerie Bertinelli Says She Was Asked ‘Anybody Ever Tell You You Look Like’ Herself  — and Her Response Had ‘Everybody’ Laughing

Valerie Bertinelli says she was recognized while moving a caller errand — but nan alien thought she was only a Valerie Bertinelli lookalike.

“People are adorable,” nan personage cook began nan funny story, which she recounted connected her Instagram Stories connected Tuesday, June 3.

Bertinelli said she visited a authorities agency earlier that time for immoderate paperwork. 

“So I cheque successful and I’m waiting, and past my number gets called, and I’m up there, and arsenic I’m stepping retired aft I decorativeness nan business, this feline stops me, holds up his telephone and says, ‘Hey ma’am, anybody ever show you you look for illustration her?’” she recalled. “And it’s me. And I said, ‘Yeah, each nan time.’”

“Everybody waiting successful statement each started laughing,” she went on. “I don’t cognize if they knew it was me, aliases they really thought it wasn’t and that I looked really a batch for illustration Valerie Bertinelli. … We had a bully laugh. And I emotion people.”

While nan Food Network alum opened up astir "going done some of nan astir emotionally excruciating 8 months of [her] life” past month, her caller Instagram posts person besides reflected a affirmative outlook.

“Call maine a Pollyanna if you like, but if location is 1 point astir me, I will look for nan glimmer and beryllium damn grateful for it,” Bertinelli wrote connected May 9. “To me, a glimmer is that satisfying tease of joyousness that’s already sitting wrong america and itching to find its measurement out, but it’s excessively often covered up by our encephalon which struggles pinch each time challenges and overwhelming feelings that tin past heap up erstwhile we effort to numb them aliases suffocate them.”

“Sometimes small things get successful our way, and sometimes it’s large things, but that glimmer is ever location sitting correct beneath nan surface,” she continued. “Have a confirmation bias for glimmers. Look for things to beryllium grateful for to spark that soul joy. Gratitude encourages glimmers. Acknowledge those saccharine glimmers and convey them each clip they show up and they’ll show up more.”

The One Day astatine a Time star besides shared optimism successful an Instagram Reel celebrating her 65th birthday connected April 23.

The video included highlights from nan past year, featuring family and friends specified arsenic her son, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Drew Barrymore, whose talk show she often appears on.

“Went done it each 😅 successful nan past fistful of years and I’m truthful grateful for nan downs arsenic overmuch arsenic I americium for each of nan ups I americium blessed to experience,” she wrote successful nan post’s caption. “The ray astatine nan extremity of nan passageway is yet here. I tin spot it. I consciousness it.”

“I emotion my family,” she added. “I emotion my friends. I emotion each of you retired location supporting maine and being a portion of our organization here. I americium 1 fortunate and grateful mofo. XOXO 💋♥️”