Friends Warn Valerie Bertinelli: Diet Or Die!
Jul. 14 2016, Published 10:07 a.m. ET
Valerie Bertinelli has packed on all the weight she recently lost and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that her friends fear she's in danger of a heart attack! Click through the gallery to see her dramatic weight gain.
Valerie Bertinelli sighted on set at “The Today Show” in New York City on September 4, 2013
Bertinelli is losing her personal battle of the bulge again — and friends feared her yo-yo dieting could lead to a killer heart attack! Insiders say the former poster girl for the Jenny Craig weight loss program gained back ALL of the 49 pounds she shed on the diet seven years ago — and gained even MORE!
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At a petite five-foot-two, the 56-year-old Hot in Cleveland star has ballooned to a scale-crunching 175 pounds! "We're really worried that she keeps putting on the pounds and then peeling them off," a concerned insider close to the former sitcom cutie told RadarOnline.com.
Valerie Bertinelli Displays Fuller Figure as she Steps out in NYC
When Bertinelli's weight ballooned back in 2012, pals blamed it on her Food Network show, Valerie's Home Cooking. An on-set source spilled to RadarOnline.com about her weight gain: "She shares her family recipes and she's packing on the pounds from sampling all of the dishes she's serving up."
Valerie Bertinelli Displays Fuller Figure as she Steps out in NYC
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Bertinelli slimmed down AGAIN, but then her weight soared after she fractured her left foot in a bizarre home accident in December 2013.
Valerie Bertinelli Displays Fuller Figure as she Steps out in NYC
But with a puffy face, double chin and deep jowls, Bertinelli barely resembled the trim 126-pound spokesmodel who posed for photos in a skimpy bikini back in 2009!
Valerie Bertinelli is camera shy as she heads into Good Morning America in NYC
If Bertinelli tried to slim down again, weight loss experts warn she could put herself at extreme risk, even of a heart attack.
Valerie Bertinelli enters the ‘Good Morning America’ studios, NYC
"We know Val's put her body through a lot," said one concerned insider. "We don't want to lose her!"