I don’t care how adorable your Christmas card is this year. I don’t care if you dressed up your cat or your dog in antlers and snow booties. Nothing you could ever do would match the Giudice Family Christmas card this year. Teresa and Joe Giudice are probably headed to the pokey in 2014, but for now, they have each other and their four girls, Gia, Gabriella, Milania and Audriana.
And before you say, “OMG, this is the worst hacky Photoshop ever!” Bite your tongue. Teresa and her family actually went to a poinsettia nursery in New Jersey for this photoshoot. I’m being completely serious. Teresa posted behind-the-scenes photos and such. They were actually at a poinsettia nursery. So why does it look like bad Photoshop? I… don’t really know? I think they might have done some weird Photoshop on the flowers… or maybe the photographer just didn’t come in close enough on the family? I have no idea.
Meanwhile, Teresa will be appearing in court in February to face those fraud charges. It’s going to be a mess, I’m sure. But since they’re dealing with the federal government, I kind of wonder if the federal prosecutor might be able to stagger any potential jail sentences so that one of the parents (hopefully Teresa) gets to stay with the kids as they’re growing up.
Photos courtesy of Teresa’s blog, WENN.
most unfortunate hairline ever.
I know right!! I’m so fascinated by her hair line and how it can takes up half of her forehead. Every picture of her, I am drawn to it! Lol
Me TOO! Is creepy and fascinating and terrible These are my emotions when i spot the hairline… Then i picture them being sexytimes and I want to cry in a corner
QQ, where have you been all my life! Sexy times. I’m seriously snorting in my coffee over here! Happy Holidays to everyone, especially my girl, QQ! ;0
QQ: HA! But gross!!
Exactly I cannot even look at her that hairline drives me crazy and she probably has to thread it as it’s perfectly groomed?
You know, I wanted to say something about all of this but your comment pretty much sums it up perfectly.
It’s just so… it’s so… it’s…. I don’t even know where to start.
Unfortunate, indeed.
Cro-Magnon. I think it every time I see her lol
I know. I end up thinking to myself, “Can you wax a hairline? Electrolysis? What?”
Cute.
Where do they get the money for this? Yes u know they work for bravo but I also thought they had serious $$ issues? Cute girls but joe and her kind of make me want to gag, especially joe.
I can only say.. that their daughters are beautiful.
I feel bad for them. They must be so scared.
I disagree with you but we’re all entitled to our opinions.
I can’t call them beautiful – but I am loving the one daughter who is picking up her dress like she’s getting ready to curtsy. cute!
“Look at us smiling in the face of adversity and ruin.”
My thoughts exactly. You’d think they’d be a little more low key, maybe tone it down to a couple poinsettias instead of a whole farm. But clearly they don’t know the meaning of restraint.
What an odd looking woman..
What an ungodly mess.
Gia is really growing up. All of those girls are adorable. Beautiful family…
I love your user name – wish I’d thought of it!
Why can’t people just send actual Christmas cards? What makes them think everyone wants to stare at their mugs in a family portrait at year’s end?
I’ve noticed the “family photo” card is now the standard. Even friends without kids do cards with their pets. Out of 50 or so cards we’ve gotten this year, only 3 are the old fashioned cards with no photos. My kids say those are lame and boring, lol.
I’ve also noticed the card designs are getting higher and higher end. Sigh. Although in the grand scheme of holiday commercialization, this photo card thing is probably the least offensive to me. I kinda like looking at the photos.
I’m sick of it. It’s not personal and the sentiment is “LOOK AT ME”. Put a photo inside if you must. With technology the way it is, you can see their mugs all over the internet already. It’s not like, “OMG, I haven’t seen (fill in the blank’s face) in so long!”. Plus, a lot of people don’t even try to make the photos holiday themed, funny or original. They pick out their most flattering favorite beach photos from the Summer and whatnot. People I’m not even close to do this.
@Kiddo. I hear you. Although I guess I’m not offended because I actually don’t see a lot of photos of my friends’ kids on social media so I like to see how the ones I rarely see anymore have grown and changed.
But what REALLY bugs me are the family “newsletters.” We got one that was single spaced, two full sides! Those can be truly insufferable. I remember a couple quotes…
“Although she’s a talented musician, the other members of the band’s practice habits weren’t up to her standards so she regretfully had to quit.”
“He’s in the gifted program working two grades ahead while making robots in his spare time and studying for his yellow belt in (insert martial art form here).”
And “While her surgery makes it impossible to eat solid food anymore, she is making the best of out if it with some really good soups.”
UGH.
@Esmom, Riveting (side-eye).
I know what you are saying, family is different, close loved ones may be different, but the mass mailing of your photo to everyone: pretty narcissistic.
Since my husband and I are photographers I’m not going to diss this new holiday tradition (gravy train!) …but I understand your point about the old-fashioned holiday card. 🙂
Esmom, I hear you about the newsletters. Last year, as a Christmas card, my uncle sent a card that was a regular old picture of all of them–wasn’t posed, nothing fancy. But the card it came on was glossy, and on back of the picture, it had a heading called ‘updates’—where it gave the same thing you described. The issue is, this is how we found out that my uncle had quit his job as a programmer, and was going to start his own company–through a frickin’ Christmas card that looked like a brochure. Like, he couldn’t call us and tell us that?
@VC, I know. I just got yet another one today, from my husband’s aunt. They announced that she had been given a few months to live last Feb, but by Aug she was declared cancer free. We’re not in close touch with them (except when they want to unload a timeshare on us), but why they think this is an appropriate place to disclose this kind of info is beyond me!!
Last year, my mom, dad, sister and I got a little bit drunk and were making fun of those insufferable newsletters people send out about how great their year was. We decided we should write up a parody one… we ended up inventing hilarious stories for each of us… I was a ghost hunter, my sister was a bikini model, my dad was a triathlete (he recently had hip replacement surgery so this one was awesome), and my mom was a professional eater who won the Souteast Lettuce Eating Championship (she is like a size 0.)
We had relatives calling us in tears…. it was a big hit!
I’m glad I’m not the only one annoyed by the mass-mailing newsletter. Every year I receive several from distant friends and acquaintances, going on and on ad nauseam about their vacations, their grandchildren’s achievements, their promotion at work, etc. My reaction is always this: if you and I were close, I’d already know that you had a family reunion in Hawaii (with relatives I’ve never met), that little Bobby (whom I’ve also never met) won first prize in a spelling bee and that you’re now a supervisor – without having to learn this in a generic newsletter. Since we’re not close and I haven’t seen you in years, I’m really not that interested in your family reunions, your grandchildren’s activities or your promotions.
Does this make me sound like an awful Grinch?
@esmom, I like getting cards with pictures of the kids, but I think it’s so odd when people who don’t have kids send pictures of themselves. Who wants to look at your picture?! No one!
However, my aunt sends an amazingly awkward newsletter every year and it’s like the best part of Xmas. Hilarious!
I agree, and for this reason I make it known that I dont like Christmas cards. People are so generic, do they not realise the lack of orginality when your card resembles the cards of everyone else.
It’s not that common even to send cards here, but I’ve never seen someone send their picture. Very odd.
I like picture christmas cards AND newsletters. I think its fun to see everyone’s family and hear what they’ve been up to. Its too much when it takes up a full page, but when its just a few points I think its nice…
All Real Housewives should have jail in their future. Andy Cohen too.
They make beautiful children.
And I just noticed that I have the skirt that Gia is wearing. Dammit.
When is she going to go to jail
test
I don’t know what it is but… She just doesn’t look human.
the top pic, the girl on the far left, her head is shopped right onto her shoulders
She needs a NoNo…..
My guess is the photographer used a reflector or other artificial light source to light them so it makes them look photoshopped onto the background because the light is different.