RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice Spills Parenting Secrets With Daughter Gia

The Actual Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Giudice tries her greatest to be a “cool mother” for her daughters, however there are a number of guidelines she refuses to budge on.

“My dad and mom had been off the boat, very Italian, very strict,” Giudice, 51, solely instructed Us Weekly within the newest installment of “Mama Is aware of Greatest” whereas selling her Giudice Ladies x Shein assortment with eldest daughter Gia, 22. “I wished to go to FIT and my dad wouldn’t let me … I didn’t wish to be like that with [my kids].”

Together with Gia, Teresa shares daughters Gabriella, 19, Milania, 17, and Audriana, 14, with ex-husband Joe Giudice. The ladies have grown up within the Bravo highlight, however Teresa has nonetheless urged them to observe their very own desires.

“The perfect recommendation that I’ve gotten from my mother throughout school and post-college is actually to do all the things that she has by no means achieved,” Gia instructed Us. “She all the time stated, ‘Ensure you women journey [and] expertise all the things.’”

Gia graduated from Rutgers College earlier this yr. Her mom, in the meantime, attended Berkeley School in New Jersey — simply 10 minutes away from the home she grew up in. “I by no means went away to school, so I wished them to have that have,” Teresa shared.

Nevertheless, Teresa’s relaxed parenting philosophy didn’t spare Gia from some guidelines that weren’t prolonged to her youthful sisters in a while — a plight older siblings know all too effectively. “I did begin out [more strict] with Gia, she by no means had a sleepover,” Teresa instructed Us.

Gia “would get mad” when her siblings had been in a position to have associates spend the night time.. “I used to be like, ‘Why are they allowed?’” she recalled.

Teresa defined that her perspective on sleepovers shifted “when the entire authorized stuff occurred between Joe and I,” referencing the time she and Joe spent in jail after pleading responsible to fraud in 2014.

The Giudice family additionally has some guidelines about relationship. “They’ll’t convey their boyfriends of their rooms, clearly” Teresa instructed Us. “They usually can’t sleep over.”

Gia has picked up some suggestions from her mom about relationship — and it looks like the teachings caught. “The perfect recommendation my mother has given me about relationship is for one, for me to all the time be comfortable within the relationship, and two is to maintain my requirements very excessive,” Gia stated.

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The Giudice women aren’t any strangers to being in entrance of the cameras, with most of their lives being documented on RHONJ — together with Audriana’s start. In 2021, a video of Gia singing the “unhappy tune” she wrote and carried out about her household’s drama on the fact collection took TikTok by storm.

Whereas Teresa often is the star of the collection, her youngsters typically assist preserve her calm when filming RHONJ. “I give my mother recommendation,” Gia instructed Us. “Me and Gabrielle are, like, the voice of motive.”

Actuality TV fame apart, Teresa simply needs what’s greatest for her women. “Don’t do something you’ll remorse, or ask me first and I’ll inform you sure or no,” she jokingly instructed Gia. “I’m the best mother.”

The Giudice Ladies x Shein assortment options Teresa alongside Gia, Milania and Audriana all dressed up for the vacation season. The 100-piece assortment contains two-piece shirt units with skirts and pants, bodycon attire and silky pajamas in sizes as much as 5X.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi