Valerie Bertinelli is asking fans to help her decide what to do with a stack of old photos she found while cleaning her house on August 6. She posted the images on Instagram and, after saying she had totally forgotten she even had them, put the question in blunt terms: toss or save?
The photos are from 1979, when Bertinelli says she was 19. In them, she is wearing a black leotard and heels, straddling a chair, with a voluminous feathered haircut in the style made famous by Farrah Fawcett. She called them sexy negatives and noted that they were taken two years before she married Eddie Van Halen and twelve years before she became a mom to Wolfgang Van Halen.
That is part of why the post landed now. Bertinelli is the correspondent for The Drew Barrymore Show, and the throwback images arrived on the same day she said she and her brother David P. Bertinelli have a new show called Undeveloped, premiering today on Its Valerie's Place. She described the show as filled with family memories, heartfelt moments, and stories never shared before, which gives the old photos a possible second life beyond a social-media post.
For now, though, Bertinelli does not seem certain what happens next. In her caption, she said she had totally forgotten that she had the photos, which is why they probably had not been seen in print anywhere, and she said she did not know what to do with them. She also floated the possibility of getting her brother to do something with them, leaving open the chance that the images could turn up later on Its Valerie's Place or in Undeveloped.
The Instagram audience offered its own verdict in real time. Nearly 300 responses came in, and the reaction leaned hard toward nostalgia and advice, the kind of response that can make a personal archive feel worth keeping. Whether Bertinelli files the photos away, shares them again, or puts them to work in a new episode, the post already did one thing clearly: it turned a forgotten box of negatives into part of her current story.
