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'Jersey Shore': A softer Snooki opens up about her eating disorder
Last week on "Jersey Shore," Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi admitted that she had an eating disorder in high school. That gave us a whole new understanding of why she reacted to Mike's fat joke the way she did. Tonight, "The Insider" reveals a side of Snooki we haven't seen yet. Her make up is toned down, her 'tude is at a lower frequency and there's no hair poof to speak of. On the MTV show, the former upstate New York cheerleader told her roommates that her anorexia got so bad she ate one cracker a day and got down to 80 pounds.
"I really wouldn't eat," Snooki tells "The Insider." "I would go into the nurse's office every day and I would weigh myself. When [the nurse] realized that I hit 80 pounds, she was like, this isn't good."
Snooki says her eating disorder stemmed out of her fear of being replaced on the cheerleading squad by thinner, younger freshmen. She has that nurse to thank for alerting her parents, who took action.
"My parents told me, you need to eat," Snooki, 21, confesses to "Insider." "This is very dangerous. So I gained my weight back to like 98 where I always was."
"Jersey Shore" has definitely opened Snooki up to some haters, but she seems to be taking it in stride. "Right now, I don't even care what people think of me," says Snooki. "They're going to say negative stuff, so whatever. I'm happy with myself."
For more of Snooki's confessions, including her childhood as an altar girl and her parents' reaction to her Snook-capades at "The Shore," tune in to "The Insider" tonight (Tuesday, Jan. 19).
How do you feel about Snooki's confession of having anorexia? Do you think the haters will let up on her, at least when it comes to her weight?
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I don't think it's Snooki's weight that is the issue, it's the clothes she chooses to wear. They are awful, and make her look like a butterball. If she stopped wearing low cut tops and her skirts too short, she'd just look like a normal girl.
awwuh poor snooks :|
It's not her love handles that make Snooki ridiculous...it's her attitude. Whatever her narcissistic, egoist rommates think...most people don't expect perfection from the cast of Jersey Shore. In fact, most of us watch it to have a laugh.
People hate on Snooki because she thinks she is awesome, when the reality is that she's going nowhere fast. She prides herself on being as materialstic and obnoxious as possible, while having nothing better to do than dance around at the club drunk and tan...and THAT is annoying as ****. Most of what she says is unintelligent and...frankly...I still haven't figured out what that hair bump is about.
In short, people hate on Snooki because of...well...Snooki, not her weight.