Teresa Giudice Talks 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' Reunion, Explains "Blubber" Comment to Caroline Manzo
Whether you love or hate Teresa Giudice, you've got to admit, she's got a point: the other housewives and the rest of the cast did gang up on her during the reunion.
Giudice said she tried to be "calm and mature" throughout the reunion, or as she explained in her Bravo blog, "As calm and mature as anyone can filming all day with 10 people coming at you! I'm not an actress, I don't practice in the mirror at night, so my reaction isn't always perfect. But I'm not perfect. I'm just me."
But Giudice did have her not-so-perfect moments.
Caroline Manzo told Giudice, "Listen, you and your f--king Christmas pageant dress, sit back and shut the f--k up ..."
So a fed up Giudice told her she had three rolls of "blubber," needed Botox, and revealed Caroline had gotten a tummy tuck 12 years ago.
In her blog post, Giudice admitted, "It wasn't a great moment, but I can only be pushed so far."
But what made her reveal that Caroline had gotten a tummy tuck at 39 years old? She thought Manzo was being a hypocrite.
"What I can't stand is that Caroline has for years talked about how she loses weight naturally, she even did interviews on her 'portion control,' meanwhile she's hiding behind a secret surgery. I'm sorry, I don't like that. ... Imagine if I told everyone I got bigger bubbies because I just took a certain vitamin. Guess what? It's not true and that's not fair to the public who really wanted to know how I did it."
In response to Giudice's "blubber" attack, Lauren Manzo lashed out at Giudice and said, "You realize that what you're saying to her right now is the reason that people out there kill themselves because of d--kheads like you."
On the reunion show, Giudice admitted that she thought Lauren's lap band surgery was unneccessary. Like a true Manzo, Lauren flipped out and then defended her decision by explaining how much she dieted and exercised.
In her Bravo blog, Giudice wrote, "And let's get this straight: Lauren was 185 pounds. Not 285. She's 24. Do you think major surgery chopping up your stomach is the answer for that extra 30 pounds? I don't. The ones who are sending out the bad message to kids in America are Lauren and Caroline for acting like Lauren was a prehistoric beast before and the lap band saved her life. The lap band surgery is a miracle for some people, for people who are extremely unhealthy, who have tried everything, who've had babies and are older with slow metabolisms. Look at Lisa Lampanelli. I know she tried everything, and the lap band worked wonders for her. She looks amazing! That's the person who should get lap band, not a 24-year-old with a controlling mother. Sorry, but that's my opinion."
Giudice revealed that the other housewives had predetermined everything they were going to say to her before the reunion's taping.
"They write little notes and look over every little thing I ever wrote. They're so desperate to make me look bad. Here's the thing: I don't care. I know who I am and I don't need to prove it to any of them. And I'm certainly not going to waste my off-camera, family time looking up words in the dictionary and making obsessive lists about them."
Part Two of the reunion show premieres Oct. 7 at 10 p.m. EST/9 p.m. C. Click here for a dramatic sneak peak.
