“After Ed and I separated, I thought, I’ll finish raising my son, and I’ll go away, have about 40 cats, and just get nice and fat. I thought I would be alone for the rest of my life,” she said, but love soon came knocking on Valerie’s door again.
In 2011, she married her second husband, Tom Vitale, and the duo have been together ever since. “He loved me no matter what,” Valerie gushed about her new beau in an interview with AARP the Magazine. “I’ve never felt more beautiful at any weight than when Tom looks at me.”
Being in a healthy relationship has also helped Valerie move on and work things out with Eddie. “They have both forgiven each other and love their son,” a friend exclusively told Closer Weekly in the magazine’s latest issue, on newsstands now. “There are no more bad feelings between them.”
“I feel at home,” the Food Network star recently described her life to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “I went through a period where I wasn’t as happy. [But] in just the last few years, I would reframe it as creating the next chapter of my life.”
We’re so happy for you, Valerie!
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