Eddie Van Halen’s ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli has dismissed reports the veteran guitarist has checked into rehab.

Actress Bertinelli refuses to reveal what Van Halen is suffering from, but insists the former alcoholic and cancer survivor isn’t receiving medical care in a substance abuse clinic, as reported.

She says, “Eddie is sober. He’s being proactive about his illness.” Rockers Van Halen put their reunion tour on hold this week to allow the 53-year-old time to “continue medical tests to define a course of treatment”.

All Van Halen dates have been postponed until April 19th.

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Actress Valerie Bertinelli has blamed Gisele Bundchen and her supermodel pals for modern eating disorder trends – because the leading fashion names are doing nothing to promote a healthy image. The Jenny Craig weightloss spokeswoman insists too many girls and young women are starving themselves to emulate “skinny” catwalk stars, and the models fail to understand that sizes zero and two are not the norm.

Bertinelli tells Ladies Home Journal magazine, “When there were several of those models dying from anorexia and I read that Gisele Bundchen said something about it’s not being the designers’ fault but the parents’ fault, I was like, ‘Well now, wait a minute, Miss Skinny Girl.’ “(I said), ‘Designers do have something to do with this because they hire women like you.’ “There was one designer who was proud of herself because she hired models that were a size four. And when asked why she didn’t hire a (size) six or eight, she said, ‘Because the clothes don’t look good. They don’t hang right.’ “Aren’t you supposed to design clothes that look good on real women?”

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“When Friends called I just couldn’t see myself doing it. I thought, ‘No, I can’t stand next to those three beautiful women; I’ll just look like a tub of lard.’”

Actress Valerie Bertinelli turned down the chance to be part of the Friends cast because she feared she was too fat.

I wonder who they wanted her to play? Monica?

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