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Milania Giudice opens up about dropping 40 pounds. She reveals that her sisters poked fun at her weight while her mom was always supportive.
The 17-year-old appeared on her mom Teresa Giudice‘s Namaste B$tches podcast last week, where she opened up about losing weight and getting fit.
“I weighed so much. My heaviest was like 150, and then when I was done [losing weight], I was like 110,” Milania Giudice revealed. “I was so skinny after that. I was literally like a stick. I was so skinny because I just worked out, but I felt good.”
While Milania says her mom never outright encouraged her to lose weight, Milania admits she picked up on the subtle hints her mom would drop about her weight.
“My mom would — she would never say anything to me — but she’d be like, ‘Oh, you’re gonna have another ice cream?’” Milania recalled.
Milania then poked fun at how she would snap back at any comments about what she was eating or her weight.
“‘I don’t care if I’m fat!’ I’d be like, ‘If I’m fat, I’m fat. Whatever. It’s my life,’” the teenager shared.
“I’d be like, ‘Mom, don’t say anything to me,’” she continued. “‘If I’m gonna have another ice cream, I’m gonna have another ice cream!’”
However, Milania says her sisters Gia, 22, Gabriella, 18, and Audriana, 13, never shied away from making direct comments about her weight.
“My sisters would always throw jabs at me. Like, ‘Oh, you’re gonna have another ice cream after dinner?’ They would always throw little jabs at me, but it was fine. It was whatever,” she said.
Despite the comments, Milania explained that she stayed true to herself until one day, “It just clicked, and I did it.”
“They have to wanna do it themselves,” the Real Housewives of New Jersey star and mom of four added. “You can’t force them, and I didn’t want her to have a complex or anything, and I thought she looked adorable. She was just a little thicker.”
Milania called her younger self a “full-on pumpkin.” According to Milania, she began her “glow-up” and started losing weight after feeling “literally felt suffocated in my own body.”
When Milania decided to focus on her health, Teresa hired a nutritionist, who gave the teenager three healthy meals a day. Milania notes that she paired healing eating with two-a-day workouts.
“It happens to everybody. You go through a glow-up in your life,” she explained. “I had my glow-up when I was hitting eighth grade, I’d say.”
Season 14 of the Real Housewives of New Jersey is set to begin filming in August.
