Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again (33 page)

Gia and I in our matching leopard print bikinis on our boat at the Jersey shore in 2003.

Halloween 2007: Joe went as Hugh Hefner and I dressed up as a cowgirl. We were celebrating at SPACE in Englewood, New Jersey.

Joe and I jet skiing in the Bahamas. We had just gone for a ride and the waves were huge. I remember holding on to him and feeling so safe.

Much-needed family time during a vacation to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic in March 2013. We went there for our cousin’s wedding.
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Gabriella’s tenth birthday party at a sports facility in Fairfield, New Jersey, which she loved. Her birthday was two days after Joe’s and my sentencing. We had a fun time, but it was also bittersweet because I knew my time with my daughters and husband was limited.

Hanging out with my family on a lazy July day. I am a total summer girl!

Joe and my daughters celebrating his birthday while I was at Danbury. He took such good care of the girls while I was away. I know it wasn’t easy!

Joey and I at the launch of my hair care line at Stone House at Stirling Ridge in Warren, New Jersey, in February 2013.
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My beautiful daughters—Gia, Milania, Audriana, and Gabriella, posing at the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink in December 2014, just two weeks before I went to Danbury.
(Photo by Lisa Giammarino)

My girls and I at the beach at the Jersey shore. This is one of my favorite pictures of us together. I had it blown up and hung it on the wall of my shore house. (I love when we all match!)
(Photo by Andrew Coppa)

The girls having fun—and then some—with Joe at our Montville house. (God bless you, Joe, for being such a great and patient dad!)
(Photo by Andrew Coppa)

My mother, Antonia, and Audriana at a Mother’s Day celebration at Audriana’s kindergarten class in May 2015, when I was away. I was sad that I couldn’t be there with Audriana, but so happy that my mother was able to go in my place.
(Photo by Lisa Giammarino)

The outside of the men’s prison at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Connecticut, which is what I first saw when I arrived there in the early hours of January 5, 2015, to turn myself in.
(Photo by J. Leonard Jr.)