Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again (35 page)
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Authors: Teresa Giudice,K.C. Baker
I am incredibly grateful to the amazing staff at
People
magazine, including Norm Pearlstine, Jess Cagle, Dan Wakeford, J.D. Heyman, Kate Coyne, Cynthia Sanz, Alicia Dennis, Elaine Aradillas, Mary Green, Liz McNeil, Alex Brez, Linda Marx, Samantha Miller, Nicole Weisenee Egan, Charlotte Triggs, Mary Margaret, Kim Hubbard, Wendy Hanson, Jeff Nelson, Jackie Fields and the beauty and style teams, Hugh McCarten, Emily Strohm, Janine Rubenstein, Celine Wojtala, Sara Nathan, Aaron Parsley, and the rest of the entire People crew for your words of encouragement for this project and for the huge outpouring of support I got from you after a massive fire I had at my house while writing this book. (The timing couldn’t have been worse . . .) I am so blessed to be able to work with such talented, smart professionals—who also have huge hearts. You are the best in the business in every way.
I want to also thank my friends, my BFF Sherry Fragomeni, the amazing Debbie and Jim McAleavey and their children, Patrick and Caroline (who took me and the kids in after the fire), Madeleine Fromageot, Terri (who is like a sister) and Bill Bachlechner, Frank Gallagher, Nicky and Tom Migacz, my longtime PIC Amy Kellogg, Teresa Superfan Lora Heck, Michelle Centeno, Lara Walden, Dawn Davies Rice, Henry and Kathy Smalls, the Ivanoviches, Ruth Denomme, Greg Marconi, Chris Kapteina, my cousins Tracey and Gene Cleri, Allison Snyder, Courtney Kudey, Alex Rauso and the volunteer fire department in my town, my insurance agent, John Delveccio, my insurance adjuster, Darren Toth, Sarah and Wayne Baker, and countless others, for being there for me while writing this book and after the fire.
I also want to thank the wonderful people I met and got to know while writing this book, including Joe, Gia, Gabriella, Milania; and Audriana Giudice; Teresa’s parents, Antonia and Giacinto Gorga; Joe’s sister, Maria Fazliu; Priscilla Distasio; and Lisa G. I can’t thank you enough for all the help you gave me with this book, gathering the pictures and fact-checking.
Molte grazie!
I am so grateful to all of you and so many others, but I would like to give a special thank you to the following people:
My son and daughter, Cameron and Lindsay, who were there for every second of this journey with me and then some: Thank you for being so patient and putting up with me as I worked ’round the clock on this book. I love you both so much and am so proud and blessed to be your mom.
Jim Leonard: Where do I even begin? There is no way we could have done this book without you. I am so glad to have met you and to have worked so closely with you. Thank you for being there every step of the way and for always putting out so many fires. You are amazing . . .
And most of all, of course, I want to give a big hug to Teresa. Thank you so very much for bringing me on this adventure with you. I had the time of my life. I was so happy to get to know the real you—a great girl with a big heart and immense inner strength, who opened up to me so much and always made me laugh. You showed me your true colors with your concern and offers to help me and the kids after my fire. You also gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. I am so glad to call you my friend.
TERESA GIUDICE
stars on
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
and is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Skinny Italian, Fabulicious!, Fabulicious! Fast and Fit,
and
Fabulicious! On the Grill.
A Berkeley College graduate with a degree in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing, she is a longtime supporter of NephCure Kidney International. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
K.C. BAKER
is a staff writer at
People
magazine, where she has worked for the past fifteen years. Before that she was a staff writer at the
New York Daily News
.
Turning the Tables
is K.C.’s third book.
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Photograph of Teresa Giudice © Bravo/Getty Images
Photograph of Dining Room © Howard Huang
Front cover family photograph © Portrait Artistry by Linda Marie
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Giudice, Teresa. | Baker, K.C.
Title: Turning the tables : from housewife to inmate and back again / Teresa Giudice with K.C. Baker.
Description: New York : Gallery Books, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047685 (print) | LCCN 2015048704 (ebook) |
Subjects: LCSH: Giudice, Teresa, | Television personalities—United States—Biography. | Real housewives of New Jersey (Television program) | Women prisoners—Connecticut— Danbury—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Classification: LCC PN1992.4.G565 A3 2016 (print) | LCC PN1992.4.G565 (ebook) |
DDC 791.4502/8092—dc23
ISBN 978-1-5011-3510-1
ISBN 978-1-5011-3512-5 (ebook)