RHONJ’s Jackie Goldschneider Says Her Eating Disorder ‘Controlled Everything’ in Her Life, How It Affected Her Kids

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Leaning into change. Jackie Goldschneider got real about how her battle with anorexia affected her children — and made it hard to live in the moment.“The eating disorder controlled everything,” the 45-year-old TV personality exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month. “It really does change everything in your life.”The Real Housewives of New Jersey star explained that after years of starving herself, she was able to enjoy spring break with her family.

Goldschneider shares four children — 14-year-old twins Jonas and Adin and 11-year-old twins Alexis and Hudson — with her husband Evan Goldschneider. (Viewers also watched Jackie have her first bite of ice cream in 18 years during the April 5 episode of RHONJ.)“I never took trips more than four nights because … there was too much anxiety around going out more than four nights in a row.

Even with four nights, one of the nights I wouldn’t eat if we went to dinner,” the former lawyer told Us, recalling a recent trip to Arizona that lasted six days.She added: “I enjoyed every single meal with my family.

I wasn’t hungry at all. We did so many more activities because I wasn’t just, like, in starvation mode.”Jackie, who joined RHONJ in 2018, confessed that her battle with food and skewed body perception “changes [the] way you interact with people” and how “present” she was with everyone.“[What’s] very important is the fact that my children are watching me [now] and picking up habits and they’re no longer picking up these toxic diet habits,” she said. “So to me as a mother that’s everything.”The freelance writer has been vocal about her eating struggles on the Bravo series, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that she revealed how deep her problems went.While the reality star