Valerie Bertinelli and Drew Barrymore are bonding over their experiences as child actresses. While chatting on this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the two stars admitted to lying on their acting resumes when they were kids.
After the duo, along with Ross Mathews, whipped up a recipe from Bertinelli’s new cookbook Indulge, Barrymore pulled out their first-ever headshots.
“You’d get an 8×10 glossy. And on the back of the 8×10 glossy was your resume and you would have to say, ‘I can sing, I can tap,'” Barrymore explained to the audience. “All lies. I couldn’t do any of the things it said that I could do. It was like singing, dancing. You put like all your skillsets as a child that you don’t really have.”
Bertinelli, who rose to fame in the 1970s sitcom One Day at a Time, revealed that she was guilty of doing the same thing — and that she once got caught in her lies.
“You can roller-skate. You can skateboard,” she said. “And that got me in trouble because then I did a movie in London — something about Charles Dickens going back and forth in time — and I had to ride a skateboard. And it said I could ride a skateboard. I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I actually have to ride a skateboard.'”
She added, “I did it. But I looked like a weirdo.”
The television personality also looked back on her first-ever acting gig in a JCPenny commercial she booked when she was “barely 12” years old.
“I got the job because I actually fit in the clothes — which is ironic because [I’m] all about food and clothing and feeling uncomfortable in your body, and here I get the job because I fit in the clothes,” she said. “And I hated doing any kind of clothes fittings or anything like that because it would remind me of how imperfect I was.”
While she opened up about hitting “rock bottom” at one point in her life, Bertinelli said she is in a much better place these days.
“I am so much stronger than I ever thought I could be,” she told Barrymore.
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