--- description: The actress raises a glass of champagne in her first Instagram post title: Betty White Joins Instagram image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Betty White Joins Instagram by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2015 5:10 PM CUT by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2015 5:10 PM CUT Welcome to Instagram, Betty White! The 93-year-old actress, who’s already quite social-media savvy with her [whopping 1.2 million followers on Twitter](https://twitter.com/bettymwhite "undefined"), posted a picture of the _Hot in Cleveland_ cast to celebrate Wednesday’s series finale, toasting the sitcom with a glass of champagne alongside costars Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves: Find America’s favorite nonagenarian’s Instagram account—and her already more than 20,000 followers—at [@bettymwhite](https://instagram.com/bettymwhite/ "undefined"). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/04/betty-white-instagram?xid=IFT-Trending "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/ "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3909349/betty-white-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3909349/betty-white-instagram/"},"headline":"Betty White Joins Instagram","datePublished":"2015-06-04T17:10:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:55:30.383Z","description":"The actress raises a glass of champagne in her first post","url":"https://time.com/3909349/betty-white-instagram/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3909349/betty-white-instagram/","name":"Betty White Joins Instagram"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Instagram Photographer of the Year 2014","description":"Matt Black is the Instagram Photographer of the Year","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dqP0weIr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-18T12:43:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dqP0weIr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3909349/betty-white-instagram/","duration":"PT3M50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3909349/betty-white-instagram/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```