Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi recently made a statement about her journey towards self-acceptance in an interview with E! News. Snooki revealed that she had body image issues as a teenager and also struggled with not eating correctly. But Snooki now says, “I don’t care what size I am.”
11-year-old Lorenzo is Snooki’s oldest son. In 2013, she revealed to People.com that she had lost 44 lbs of pregnancy weight.
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Snooki claimed she was working with a trainer “four times a week, and we do legs, arms, and everything.” She also said, “after every one-hour workout” with her trainer, she would do an hour of cardio. But Snooki confessed to People, “It wasn’t easy.”
Now 36 years old, the mother of three has grown to accept her body and is focusing more on her happiness and enjoying life. Snooki was a cheerleader in high school and claims that the pressures she felt as a teenager contributed to a lack of self-confidence in her youth. Now, Snooki said she feels more “confident in myself,” and she’s more accepting of any fluctuations in her weight.
Snooki Recalls Her Time on Jersey Shore
Snooki also explained how her weight affected her mindset when she first appeared on Jersey Shore at 21.
She told E! “I wasn’t at my thinnest.” Snooki claims her body weight fluctuates “so much because I’m so short.” Snooki said that gaining five pounds looks like 25 pounds on her since she’s only 4’9”, and after having three children, it’s become that much harder to maintain her weight.
In July 2023, People.com reported that Snooki posted a TikTok video about social media and body image, which went viral. According to People, Snooki blamed trolls on social media who attack other people’s appearances. But Snooki was also open about struggling with weight her entire life.
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Snooki recalled how she quote, “wanted to be size zero and so skinny” during her teenage years. But Snooki also claimed in her TikTok video that she began to think, “I’m going to enjoy my life,” when she started Jersey Shore in 2009.
Although she told E! News she wasn’t at her “thinnest” when she first appeared on the hit reality show, Snooki claimed on TikTok that she wasn’t “worrying about what I was eating” and “I enjoyed myself.”
In her video post, Snooki said she was speaking out for herself and anyone on social media who has struggled with a negative body image. “I know it’s an issue for a lot of people. Men, women, it’s an issue, and it’s called weight,” Snooki explained.
Snooki Responds to the Haters
Snooki also spoke to anyone who’s attacked someone else online. She said, “Don’t comment [about] it on the Internet. Because people are sensitive.” Snooki acknowledged people like herself who have struggled with improper eating habits to be thinner and have “trouble with their body and image” before they finally start to love themselves.
She said when online trolls attack these people, “That’s not okay,” and Snooki continued, “You can put people in a hole again after they finally got out of it.”
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Snooki now believes that weight “doesn’t matter. As long as you’re a good person and you feel good in your own body,” and she said, “Stop commenting on people’s bodies. It’s not nice.”
Snooki posted the TikTok video on July 19th. People reported that it had been viewed 1.7 million times by the afternoon of July 20th, and a recent viewing shows that Snooki’s video has over 564,000 likes.
