Valerie Bertinelli — Cookbook Queen Still Proud To Be Big

Valerie Bertinelli is pushing her new cookbook — and fans who watched her sit down with Megyn Kelly saw that she's still proud of her curves!

The star of "Hot in Cleveland" and “One Day at a Time” is no longer singing the blues over her ballooning belly — thanks to her husband, former financial planner Tom Vitale. “Valerie had really been down in the dumps after packing the pounds,” a pal told The National ENQUIRER. “But her hubby managed to turn that frown upside down when he told her he didn’t care.”

As The ENQUIRER originally reported, Valerie was looking fat and unhappy in 2015 after piling on a whopping 35 pounds. She had previously dropped 49 pounds on the Jenny Craig program — slimming down from a roly-poly 172 pounds to a trim 123 pounds. Val showed off her figure in a bikini shoot, but then her weight began to yo-yo.

In 2012, the 5'2" star’s weight crept up when she began cooking up a storm — and sampling the results — for her cookbook, “One Dish at a Time.” A new Food Network show, “Valerie’s Home Cooking,” also wreaked havoc on her weight plans.

“In the past, Valerie always felt a lot of pressure to remain model thin,” the source said. And while she's slimmed down some in recent years, she'sbproudly showing off her curves while promoting her latest cookbook based on her show.