Milania Guidice is opening up about her methods into losing weight in a new podcast interview.
The 17-year-old, who is the second youngest daughter of Theresa Giudice and her ex, Joe Giudice, opened up on the Namaste B*tches podcast, which is hosted by Theresa and Melissa Pfeister, about losing the weight and why she was motivated to do so.
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Milania said that she lost around 40 lbs between middle school and high school, calling herself a “pumpkin” before she decided to put her health first.
“I was way thicker in middle school. Like, I was a pumpkin,” she said on the program. “And then one day it hit me, I was like, ‘That’s it.’ I literally felt like suffocating with my own body. I was like, ‘No, no, no, I can’t do this anymore.’”
Milania then said that she urged her mom to get her a nutritionist to help her combat her weight and take on a healthier lifestyle.
“She did, and I ate three meals a day and they were literally the healthiest meals,” she says. “I would never eat those meals that I eat. It was the healthiest meals, I was like, ‘What am I eating?’ But you know, I ate it.”
But it wasn’t just healthy meals. It was also waking up “before school and I worked out 30 minutes. I woke up like at 5:00, waiting for school because my school starts early. So I woke up before school. I worked out and then after school I would work out again. And in two months, I lost 40 pounds.”
“I weighed so much. My heaviest was like 150, and then when I was done [losing weight], I was like 110,” she noted of the numbers.
Milania also said that while Theresa never pushed her to lose the weight, she dropped hints and subtly shamed her over it.
“My mom would — she would never say anything to me — but she’d be like, ‘Oh, you’re gonna have another ice cream?’” she recalled, adding she would snap back. “‘I don’t care if I’m fat!’ I’d be like, ‘If I’m fat, I’m fat. Whatever. It’s my life.’”
“I’d be like, ‘Mom, don’t say anything to me,’” she went on. “‘If I’m gonna have another ice cream, I’m gonna have another ice cream!’”
Milania added that her “sisters would always throw jabs at me” too.
Theresa then chimed in about the comments, saying that her kids “have to want to do it themselves. You can’t force them and I didn’t want her to have a complex or anything. I thought she looked adorable, she was just a little thicker.”
