1972-3? #tbt
At the risk of being yelled at for posting more pictures of when I was young 🤭 here’s my first headshot or sheet I don’t remember what they were called back then. They had two sides so you could show a variety of ‘commercial’ looks and I believe the punch holes are for casting directors to put them into binders. Side note: yes, there was actually someone walking their 🐑 at the park and the photographer asked the owner if I could hold it for a few shots. 😳 Aaand another sidenote: the location for the shoot was at a park just a wee half a block from where my son would eventually go to high school who knows how many decades later 🥰
This could’ve been the sheet I handed to Jane Murray when I walked into her office to read for the part of Barbara Cooper in the summer of 1975. 🥰 God bless her for seeing something in me and giving me the chance to read for the incomparable Norman Lear.
The man who changed my life. 🤍
I fucking love my life right now. 😜
Not something I ever thought I’d say two years ago.
And hey, thank you all for staying on this ride with me. Sticking with me through the tears to get to the joy on the other side. XO ♥️🥰
#happy #gratitude #thankful
I have never, nor will I ever look like this 🫠 and I am good with that 🥰
But DAMN these TikTok filters got me trippin 🤯
Shout out to my 63-year-old neck giving me away. You go girl!
#fbf mom, me, Ed early 80’s
My mom had a wicked sense of humor and rarely used it, but when she did…
Who would like a mini tour of 5150? If that’s you, and you like great food, tune in to Valerie’s Home Cooking tomorrow 11:30a!@FoodNetwork
Summers not my vibe 🫠 sorry
T-shirt: @mammothwvh
💥MAMMOTH II out next Friday August 4!
Sunglasses: @peepers 😎
What a difference a year makes 💛🩷✌🏻
I took this picture 8 years ago, May 2015, in the old Chelsea kitchens at @FoodNetwork before filming the very first season of Valerie‘s Home Cooking. I’ve grown so much since that boot camp and I can’t thank all of you enough for watching! 🥹🤍👩🏻🍳
A little hard to believe it’s been 10 years since I’ve held this sweet guy.
And I still miss him.
Pet love, and loss, is… I don’t quite know how to explain it. I’ve been through a lot of love and loss throughout my life, and it’s not harder or easier it’s just…different. Ya know?
Anyway, here’s a pic of my sweet Dex 🤎
What an amazing day! Thank you Granada Hills High for having me back to play with all the students in culinary. I can’t wait to come back next year and do it all over again!
Recorded another Mother’s Day special today with @wolfvanhalen for his Top of the Pack show on @siriusxm. Can’t you tell how much Wolfie loves it when I come on his show? 😂 Tune in Wed May 10th Classic Rewind channel 25! 🤭
Opening with the Serenity Prayer and leading into some of the most beautiful and thought provoking songs, most of which were written by Sinéad, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got is one of my all time favorite albums. Her songwriting was just so powerful and heartfelt it opened up the way I looked at the world. I think I still know every word to every song as it was on repeat most of 1990. May you rest in peace you sweet, vulnerable, beautiful soul. 🤍🕊️
This was super fun to do, looking back at all my pics and every joyful moment that has happened in the last year. There are still so many pictures I had to leave out and it was so much fun, I may have to do a few of these 🤭 🤍✌🏻
Who remembers my Elton John boots from One Day at a Time?! I am so proud to support the Elton John AIDS Foundation and let my #InnerElton out! 🥰 Want to join me and take a stand against stigma and spread love and compassion for everyone? Snap a photo, and tag @ejaf and #InnerElton.
Happy pride month! Xoxo 💋🤍
#happycaturday 🐾🖤
Worth the wait. She’s beautiful.
I am so over the moon grateful on my birthday this year! 🙏🏻🤍
I have survived the hardest six years of my life and now
I’m in Amsterdam (one of my favorite places on earth with sweet special memories 🥹)
And on Thursday, I get to watch my son open for Metallica! 🤘🏻🎤 🎸
Life is good. ✨
Amsterdam 💛
@mammothwvh 💛
@metallica 💛
A daisy from my garden.
I love its simplicity. 🤍
Daisies bloom in the spring announcing new beginnings. They represent purity, patience, and joy.
They were my mom‘s favorite flower and I had them planted in my garden to remind me of her.
Our relationship had no such simplicity. In the year before she died, I did my best to start a new beginning with her. One with purity of heart and patience and I did my best to bring her some joy. I succeeded and failed in many ways. My relationship with my mom was complicated and that’s okay. I know she did her best with what she knew and what was modeled for her.
I’m learning to do my best with what I know and uncover about myself.
That’s the funny thing about healing, the more you dig in that garden, the more you discover.
Anyway, all of this to say, if you’ve had a challenging relationship with your mother or you miss your mother because she’s gone,
or if you yourself are a mother, a cat mom, a dog mom, a boy mom, a girl mom, a stepmom, or most importantly, a mom to yourself, I hope you have a beautiful day and you take really good care of yourself.
Keep it simple today. 🌼
A daisy from my garden.
I love its simplicity. 🤍
Daisies bloom in the spring announcing new beginnings. They represent purity, patience, and joy.
They were my mom‘s favorite flower and I had them planted in my garden to remind me of her.
Our relationship had no such simplicity. In the year before she died, I did my best to start a new beginning with her. One with purity of heart and patience and I did my best to bring her some joy. I succeeded and failed in many ways. My relationship with my mom was complicated and that’s okay. I know she did her best with what she knew and what was modeled for her.
I’m learning to do my best with what I know and uncover about myself.
That’s the funny thing about healing, the more you dig in that garden, the more you discover.
Anyway, all of this to say, if you’ve had a challenging relationship with your mother or you miss your mother because she’s gone,
or if you yourself are a mother, a cat mom, a dog mom, a boy mom, a girl mom, a stepmom, or most importantly, a mom to yourself, I hope you have a beautiful day and you take really good care of yourself.
Keep it simple today. 🌼
A daisy from my garden.
I love its simplicity. 🤍
Daisies bloom in the spring announcing new beginnings. They represent purity, patience, and joy.
They were my mom‘s favorite flower and I had them planted in my garden to remind me of her.
Our relationship had no such simplicity. In the year before she died, I did my best to start a new beginning with her. One with purity of heart and patience and I did my best to bring her some joy. I succeeded and failed in many ways. My relationship with my mom was complicated and that’s okay. I know she did her best with what she knew and what was modeled for her.
I’m learning to do my best with what I know and uncover about myself.
That’s the funny thing about healing, the more you dig in that garden, the more you discover.
Anyway, all of this to say, if you’ve had a challenging relationship with your mother or you miss your mother because she’s gone,
or if you yourself are a mother, a cat mom, a dog mom, a boy mom, a girl mom, a stepmom, or most importantly, a mom to yourself, I hope you have a beautiful day and you take really good care of yourself.
Keep it simple today. 🌼
A daisy from my garden.
I love its simplicity. 🤍
Daisies bloom in the spring announcing new beginnings. They represent purity, patience, and joy.
They were my mom‘s favorite flower and I had them planted in my garden to remind me of her.
Our relationship had no such simplicity. In the year before she died, I did my best to start a new beginning with her. One with purity of heart and patience and I did my best to bring her some joy. I succeeded and failed in many ways. My relationship with my mom was complicated and that’s okay. I know she did her best with what she knew and what was modeled for her.
I’m learning to do my best with what I know and uncover about myself.
That’s the funny thing about healing, the more you dig in that garden, the more you discover.
Anyway, all of this to say, if you’ve had a challenging relationship with your mother or you miss your mother because she’s gone,
or if you yourself are a mother, a cat mom, a dog mom, a boy mom, a girl mom, a stepmom, or most importantly, a mom to yourself, I hope you have a beautiful day and you take really good care of yourself.
Keep it simple today. 🌼
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @photosbydraia!!
I am just over the moon that you are Wolfie’s forever person (and an impressive budding cat lady 😻)
Love you! 💜
