Kelly Clarkson is very often a shiny mild to those that cross paths along with her, and her love for speaking to folks is a part of the explanation the American Idol winner has discovered success exterior of her storied music profession. Valerie Bertinelli, for one, acquired to bond along with her on The Kelly Clarkson Present final 12 months, as the 2 girls spoke candidly concerning the expectations for celebrities — and girls typically — with regard to weight. Clarkson’s assist for the famed actress clearly prolonged past that one dialog, as she shared some variety phrases with the Meals Community host after Bertinelli was body-shamed by a Twitter troll.
Valerie Bertinelli is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning actress, however a lot of her fame has come alongside a public battle along with her weight, together with the time she spent as a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig. Bertinelli shared along with her Twitter followers a style of the body-shaming the 62-year-old nonetheless has to endure:
Wow. Somebody is at all times there to remind me to tidy up my detrimental ideas some extra. Thanks for reminding me I’m a lot greater than my physique. Have a blessed day. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/453f6P3MFGFebruary 18, 2020
Feedback like which might be simply merely pointless, serving no function apart from to attempt to make somebody really feel dangerous. Web trolls aren’t going anyplace, nevertheless, and I like Valerie Bertinelli’s perspective of utilizing the commenter’s negativity as a reminder to repair her personal line of considering.
Kelly Clarkson took it a step additional, retweeting the Scorching in Cleveland star’s publish and including essentially the most wonderful message of her personal:
Kelly Clarkson, you’ve got an open invitation to name me anytime to spice up my spirits with affirmations like this. Everyone wants folks of their lives who will assist them punch negativity sq. within the face with reminders of every little thing they bring about to the world, and Valerie Bertinelli’s journey appears to have struck a chord with The Voice coach.
Like the previous cleaning soap star, Kelly Clarkson’s weight fluctuation has performed out on tv over the previous twenty years, and he or she has admitted that attempting to stay “actually skinny” made her depressing to the purpose of fascinated by self-harm.
Valerie Bertinelli, for her half, began a public journey with Jenny Craig within the early aughts, dropping 50 kilos earlier than she began to realize it again once more. She even wrote a e-book concerning the expertise — Shedding It: And Gaining My Life Again One Pound at a Time — in 2008. She appears to be extra snug about the place she is right now, mentioning in that tweet that she is greater than her physique, and that perspective can be mirrored in her newest e-book that got here out final 12 months: Sufficient Already: Studying to Love the Method I Am In the present day.
I like to see girls supporting girls, and girls who know that their price doesn’t lie within the eyes of nameless Twitter trolls. Kelly Clarkson’s phrases of positivity seem to be a extra worthwhile message to unfold. You possibly can see extra of Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Present, so test your native listings to see when it airs in your space, and he or she’ll reignite that pleasant rivalry with Blake Shelton when The Voice hits the 2023 TV schedule on March 6 on NBC.