FORMER Real Housewives of New Jersey star Lauren Manzo has showed off her amazing weight loss after shedding 80 pounds.
In new snaps she shared, the 35-year-old wore a black dress with low-cut lacy top and sheer sleeves as she posed next to a blonde pal.
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Lauren beamed as she cuddled up to friends and family in the collection of photos she titled “December” and shared to her Instagram.
The Bravo alum has been flaunting her figure a lot lately after splitting from her husband Vito Scalia.
She revealed last year that she slimmed down from “surgery, functional medicine” and “giving up gluten & dairy.”
She also admitted she used weight loss drug Mounjaro – which is similar to celebrity favorite Ozempic – to lose her last 30 pounds.
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“I went gluten [and] dairy-free over a year ago. I had the Lap-Band, I got it removed again. I got up to 208 pounds,” She revealed on a Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea podcast taping in May.
“I get it — people don’t like it, people don’t applaud it, people aren’t whatever, but it’s a shot in your stomach once a week, it’s the same as Ozempic,” the New Jersey native confessed after sharing her struggles to lose weight.
“And honestly, I really do believe that obesity and things like that — they are a major issue with people — it is causing mental health issues for me.
“You guys have seen the struggle with this since I’m 20 years old, and it’s been really hard for me.”
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She later revealed that she’s “been on the brink of an eating disorder,” but using the drug made her “so much better.”
The daughter of RHONJ alum Caroline Manzo separated from Vito in 2022 and Vito made it permanent as he filed for divorce in September.
In Vito’s divorce documents the 37-year-old revealed that the couple separated over a year prior.
“Their divorce was a long time coming,” a source told The U.S. Sun.
“They’ve been separated for more than a year.”
In court documents, Vito stated that the couple “experienced irreconcilable differences for a period of at least six months which caused the breakdown of their marriage.”
He also noted: “It is apparent that the marriage should be dissolved as there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation.”
The source said that there were more issues between the couple that many people other than her close family members did not know about.
TELLING SIGNS
Vito “wasn’t present at family gatherings, and he would spend a lot of time in New York with his family and their business,” the source said.
“She started hinting at marital problems long before the news broke about their divorce.”
The source pointed out that Lauren did not post photos with him on her social media, and stopped wearing her wedding ring altogether.
“Some friends picked up on it, and this wasn’t a shock to her family since they were all in the know about what was really going on,” the source claimed.
Lauren and Vito are parents to six-year-old daughter Marchesa (Markie).
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