CB and I were slightly “stunned” to see this week’s cover of In Touch. It features RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice and her children and… um. Yes, CB and I have decided it would be best not to discuss our thoughts on the cover in general, because even though we’re bitches, we’re not the horrible monsters people would like to think. I mean… yes, Teresa is putting her children out there, in the public sphere, by putting them on the cover and thus, inviting us to comment. But I won’t take the bait! And just keep in mind, commenters, just keep your thoughts relatively nice-ish. I don’t want fifty comments criticizing these children, even if they are in the public sphere. Instead, I just choose to feel sorry for these kids. I mean, to have those parents… and to be on the cover of ITW? GOD. Poor kids. Anyway, the story:
For Teresa Giudice, the past few months have been the roughest of roller-coaster rides. Now a household name, thanks to her star-making turn on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa saw it all marred by the shock of learning that she and her husband, Joe, were $11 million in debt — and needed to file for bankruptcy.
And as if her financial turmoil wasn’t enough, the 37-year-old mom has, in recent weeks, been subject to a slew of insults and unsavory rumors — including talk that Joe has fathered a love child with her sister-in-law and an embarrassing article in Steppin’ Out magazine, in which fellow Housewife — and arch-enemy — Danielle Staub compared her physically to “Cornelius from Planet of the Apes.”
Teresa admits that, emotionally, this has been the most difficult period of her life.
“First the bankruptcy thing and then all the rumors,” she tells In Touch in an exclusive interview. “It’s like people have nothing better to do — it’s pretty sad.”
But as upset as she’s been by it all, Teresa remains strong. And she credits her four children with keeping her that way.
“I mean look at them, they’re just amazing,” she says of her daughters, Gia, 9, Gabriella, 6, Milania, 5, and Audriana, 1. “They’re just so beautiful, and they make me happy. I live for being a mom.”
[From In Touch Weekly]
Question: is Teresa a good mother? I’ve only watched a few episodes of RHONJ, and she struck me as not the best mother overall, but not the worst either. Just sort of dumb, but she was trying to be involved, right? Are the kids happy? They look happy. Kind of. It’s hard to tell. Okay, I’m stopping.
The first picture I have seen of this “woman” where her head is not tilted … why does she do that, yuck. And have you ever seen uglier kids ? Yikes !!
These four daughter of Teresa and I.o.guidice get their look from their ugly as hell parents. Sorry but I’m not going to lie. Teresa wants to be another bethenny Frankel but that will never ever happen.and all this money shes making from this rhonj show is going to be spent on her trying to be famous and ms.frankel.
I think they are probably very cute girls who were photographed horribly.
Well, every mom thinks her kids are beautiful. That’s it…all I’m going to say!
Wow. Uhh well – I hope they grow into those faces
Even bangs don’t help the two head, she still seems rather simian in appearance.
I think it’s a sweet photo.
That kid on the left is just killing me! I can’t stop laughting at her facial expression and stance.
I have watched from season 1 and Teresa is a very good mother, she does everything herself for the girls. They don’t have nanny, Teresa makes them breakfast, she was about to give birth to her 4th baby and she still made breakfast for one her daughters before leaving for the hospital. I think the worst thing she has done as a mom is spoil them rotten. LOL they are so spoiled but Gia is very smart and out going, she is the little actress and the oldest one. I think they are gonna be a little tough to handle when they hit the teen years but Teresa is a good mom from what I see.
Actually I do think her kids are really cute: they have beautiful skin tone, bright blue eyes, and very flattering full lips. They can’t help who their mother is or that she dresses them like JonBennet and pimps them out for magazines and television viewers.
No comment about the kids but man did I get a jolt from HER face in the center of the shoot. Im not being mean, Im just beign honest! I was like whoah…. 😛
I can’t put my finger on it but they look way older than their ages. If I just saw headshots, I never would have guessed ages 9, 6, 5. Especially the oldest child.
Well they certainly have her features.
why do people think sticking large flowers on tops of babies heads is cute?
theresa is mother of the year compared to danielle ! she seems like a good mom except for spoiling the girls terribly and very little discipline.
Those girls are going to hate her someday for putting this out into the universe.
At least they have a nice photo to remember this time in their lives. that is all.
kris kardashian 2.0 🙁
Huh…..
Because I don’t want to be banned from this website and besides those are just kids… I wont say what I really think! 😉
those kids look like they’re going to wish teresa into the cornfield or something.
LMAO @ Original Kate. That’s what I was missing – a Children of the Corn reference.
Gabriella, the one on the top right corner, is actually kind of pretty. Hospital mixup for sure. Somewhere a family of perfectly normal looking peeps is gazing at their four-year-old, wondering where she got that hairline and why she looks so much like the crazy lady on TV.
#3 Angie: Thank god every mother thinks their own kids are beautiful especially after seeing this brood. Poor things. And #13 Voodoobetty. I can’t stand those elastic things people put on baby girl’s heads. They look awful and are often used when the kid is bald or you can’t tell if it’s a boy or a girl. Who cares? They’re babies.
she’s only 37? oh my!
The cover got it wrong. They’re not amazing – they’re FAAAAABULOUS.
Oh dear….
so joe does have a love child? are they moving out of that house? so many questions!!!!
Um Yeah… They look like their mom. The End.
I have always attributed Theresa’s squashed head to repeated headboard trauma. After seeing her chirruns I see that it is genetic.
Teresa saw it all marred by the shock of learning that she and her husband, Joe, were $11 million in debt
i like the way it was a complete surprise to her — like, she didn’t notice the 11 million bucks worth of crap piling up around her.
I looked like that as a kid, too. Thankfully, I grew into my nose and teeth. Let’s hope for the best for these girls, too. Hair, makeup and brow shaping can do wonders, as well.
what about jen vs lindsay story of the cover? what jenloonies would say about that?
I do like the fact that she doesn’t use a nanny or a cook or anything like that. She is a real housewife. Unlike that god awful Alexis woman on housewives of Orange County who seriously take a nanny everywhere they go. Ugh I hate that!
shes a terrible mother.
That family is $11 million in debt. How are they going to live? How are they going to retire and how are those kids going to go to college? How can you have four kids and not think of their future? She has only short term thinking. Also, she does not discipline her children and they don’t know how to act. They blew 11 million dollars on stuff like headbands. They could’ve sent all four of them to college on that money. STUPID! And she tries to act like she doesn’t know that they were broke. Seriously, what is her IQ?
The kids are cute, and I think she is an ok mother. But the kids are total overindulged brats. The episodes were they went to Italy was proof. They are not well behaved in public and honestly do they talk without whining?? I would go crazy if my kids whined and demanded half as much as hers do.
LMAO @Kristin “They blew 11 million dollars on stuff like headbands.” Those kids will not go to college because they will be expected to get by on beauty, looks and anything else superficial. So might as well buy some more big flowers for their head and dresses they can only wear one time. When Gia is a supermodel she can support them. lolol
Is she a mannequin or a real person?
I feel for her kids if they want to go to college. If your parents file for bankruptcy at any point, it’s impossible to get federal aid loans.
NEVER have I better understood that ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ than now.
I do think some team of cosmetic surgeons is in for a busy few years when her daughters start turning into teenagers. In fact that family alone could cause a spike in plastic surgeries.
I am going to say what so many are thinking- Those kids are no oil paintings, and the second eldest is scary!
Yes, I am a horrible person, going straight to hell. I accept that. I am not perfect myself, but at least I didn’t procreate!
‘My kids saved me’?!
It’s her responsibility as a parent to provide for the kids’ future. Wasting more money than she owns on creating the wardrobe of pink and glittery infinity for them and filling a house with vulgar furniture is not providing. Don’t care if she did make breakfast every day.
Well, they all look like their mom. Okay, now I am going to shut up.
Although I have to say, the expression on that baby just cracks me up, but in a GOOD way.
I’ve never seen anyone with such a tiny forehead before. Seriously freaky.
the girl in the upper right is pretty.
I like Gia. The other 3…err…uh… especially the one on the left, is, umm… hers? uh… wow.
I’m a mum to two toddlers…..My children come first. Before me, before my husband, before vacations that we NEED (omg – we haven’t had a night alone since the first was born) for a sanity break, before everything….because we chose to have them. How does a mother allow herself to be 11 million in debt and claim to put her children first? How do you even end up ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT?????
I can’t. I just can’t. I guess all the Photoshoppers were too busy on Kate Gosselin’s cover to help this whatisit out.
What a beautiful font on that cover! That is about all I can muster.
she is SO ugly and painful to look at. i can’t believe she was allowed on tv. i refuse to watch the RHONJ because of her ugliness. ew.
Since I’m already going to hell, I’ll go ahead and say it.
Girl on left looks like Big Pussy from the Sopranos.
@Buckley_OMG! Ahahahahahahahahaha! She does!
Ha ha..oh man, so much harshness and hilarity at the same time. I feel bad for laughing but some of the comments are killing me…
@Buckley! ROFLMAO Good observation! BP indeed!
Theresa’s eyes look so dead and vacant. It’s sort of scary.
You may not say it, but I will: If you put them all together, it will add up to a full forehead. G’night everybody!
I have a friend with a forehead like that. Now, my friend is gorgeous but she has to watch how she wears her hair. For some reason, this woman doesn’t seem to be able to hide it the same way, because she is butt ugly.
Just an FYI, you can get Federal loans after bankruptcy,
I just signed for 18 thousand loan for my son who is a jr. in college.
Her eyes are freaking me out since they are going in two different directions in the bottom two photos. She reminds me of the dolls I had in my room that my mom kept making me collect that looked like their eyes were following me when I walked around.
Well, the girls looked better on tv-i think it’s just a really bad picture of them. That being said i’ve only ever seen 3 of them-and that 3 includes the baby-where did the 4th come from???
I think Theresa is perfectly acceptable looking. She is ‘cute’ like a hamster is cute rather than ‘pretty’ like a barbie doll. I like that she has left her hairline as is, when clearly she could choose to change it – didn’t JA raise hers? When you have daughters, you need to think about things like that. What features you share with them, and the message it sends them when you change those features in yourself.
OMG, I cant believe how just dang ugly Teresa’s spoilt brats are!!!
She’s only 37?!?
I find that hard to believe, I would have thought mid 40’s.
lmao @ how ugly all of them are. That’s really unfortunate.
i think they’re cute, and they’re little kids just like we all are at some time, i don’t get how people can rip on little kids (even if they dont like a kid’s parents) when everyone that’s posted here has pics of themselves somewhere they hate or a period of their lives that they were in an “awkward stage”… but i think these kids are loved and love their parents, and are pretty darn happy – obviously from what i’ve seen
No she’s not a good mom. In the first season you get to see that she is a horrible stage mother.
One of the reasons I like this site so much is that nearly everyone that posts comments could be a comedian. Thanks for the laughs. Best comments ever on this post! (is it possible to love people you have never even met?)
The girl in the top right seems to have escaped her mother’s appearance, but the others…woof. Even the baby is ugly. How is that possible??
The kiddos look like right characters. I love the one on the left. She’s got a Joey Tribbiani “Hey, how YOU doin'” vibe going on 😆
I agree why does Teresa always tilt her head, maybe its from all the Glamour shots over the years!
Her kids look wayyyyyy cuter on the show then in this picture. I guess it was more important to Teresa to be the best looking one on the cover.
PS: I think Gabrielle looks like Joe’s mom. The rest are alllll Teresa w/smaller eyes.
My mother always said ” if you can’t say anything nice, just keep quiet” I will take her advice when it comes to this photo!
Isn’t every parent convinced their kids are “amazing” and “beautiful”? They all look like her. Anyhow, I’m glad I only know this woman’s face because I see her here on CB. I fervently pray to the TV Gods that Reality Shows that showcase morons like these “Housewives” and the “Jersey Shore” uglies will quickly go the way of Massengill/Summer’s Eve (i.e. something people used to buy into and use/consume, but now know better and stay away from).
this is a set up! It’s so hard to contain…..thank the lord for “The Invention of Lying” movie 🙂
good lord! i hope the commenters on here who said teresa is a good mom because they’ve seen her on tv making breakfast for her kids aren’t parents themselves….
there is NO WAY you can be $11 million dollars and debt and have wise enough judgement to be good parent. sheesh!
Do I like her as a person? No.
Is she a good mom? Yeah, she’s a great mom. She’s incredibly involved in her kids’ lives and that’s a good thing. She’s kind of stage-parenty with Gia but Gia has never said she doesn’t like what she’s doing/not having fun either. The things kids need above all else are love and attention and they have plenty in that household.
Could NO ONE on the set find a brush for these poor girls?!!
I fail to understand how any of the women on these shows is a ‘real’ ANYTHING, other than a real b*tch.
Oh sweet Lord Jesus, that is illegal times four.
funniest thread ever!
Love this site.
Might be AWOL for a bit…surgery…:(
whoever made the Big Pussy reference was dead-on. That’s…. unfortunate. And also they are bad little kids. Which is also a damn shame.
Oh for Pete’s sake! I….::cringe:: uhh, nevermind.
And you guys, c’mon…for the last time: you cannot tell if she is a good mother based on that television show. Did she not openly admit that the only reason she spent $60k CASH on furniture was for the cameras? She says she doesn’t ever do that, but she thought it would be fun to film. So the “making breakfast for the daughters while going into labor”….c’mon… what do you think? She knew how it would make her look so she went for it.
This show is not only a very skewed, partial, and packaged view of their life — it’s often fake, exaggerated and planned ahead of time. You can make better assumptions about what kind of mother she is based on the things she teaches them (ie what does she value or believe to be priorities for her kids to know), and how they behave.
They are ALL (Theresa and her husband included) materialistic, bratty, vain, completely unconcerned for others outside of themselves, conceited, and opportunistic. How balanced does that seem? Do you notice the only adjective/personality trait she assigns for them is “beautiful”? This is what I’m saying.
She really is ugly all the way around – inside and out.
I know money can’t buy personality. . . but Christ Almighty! If you are that superficial a person, you’d think you’d drop a chunk of 11 mil on something besides ratty extensions and chiclet veneers.
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Breakfast alone does not a good mother make.
those kids look like they’re going to wish teresa into the cornfield or something.
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Wouldn’t you?
You know how most people comment about a feature that resembles the parent… example: you have your father’s eyes, you have your mom’s smile….too bad they will hear, you have your mom’s forehead.
Yes, the child on the left seems to have inherited more of her mother’s simian characteristics, however, who says monkeys are not cute?
Teresa’s kids are sweet and beautiful.
People are mean and hateful towards children-such a shame.
I think the girls are cute- and they can’t help the tacky way they are dressed and the spoiled way they are raised. One of them, and I won’t say which one, looks a bit too much like a troll doll for my tastes. But, whatever. I am a little sad that they are now being used to make money for mommy on the covers of magazines (when the times get tough, put the kids to work…).
Such a shame Teresa and Joe Guidice haven’t protected their children from the casual cruelty of strangers.
That’s a basic parental responsibility.
Not really fair to shift that reponsibility to anyone else.
Stupidity and greed are a toxic mix, especially in a parent.
Why why why do mothers exploit their children like this? I thought our job was to protect them.. not pimp them out to be famous or become fame whores.
Even celebrities have enough sense to keep the children out of the limelight. Well most of them anyways.
::just focusing on the baby, who is hella cute::
I think theyr all very pretty but think sum of the coments r super funny tht people r makeing
Teresa you and your children are absolutely gorgeous! All of you ppl who have posted about her children in a negative light should be so ashamed of yourselves. They are children for god sakes!!
Gabriella is neglected..its too bad cause shes the only cute one with manners