Dolores Catania is defending Teresa Giudice, who’s being slammed for encouraging her now 17-year-old daughter, Milania Giudice, to reduce weight.

Throughout a latest episode of Teresa’s “Namaste B$tches” podcast, {the teenager} revealed that she misplaced 40 kilos in center faculty after her mother and sisters nudged her to slim down — which Catania mentioned was a “good” factor.

“I do bear in mind Milania had gone by way of one thing and he or she was gaining weight,” Catania, 52, instructed the U.S. Solar Thursday.

“You realize what? Typically as an adolescent, you get into an unhealthy way of life — you’re consuming junk with your mates on a regular basis,” she continued.

“I feel it’s good for a mother to observe and to take heed to their little one’s weight and to get on them about it earlier than it will get out of hand. Weight problems could be very unhealthy.”

Milania instructed followers on her mom’s podcast final week that whereas the “Actual Housewives of New Jersey” star, 51, by no means pressured her to eat a sure means, she positively made some extent to touch upon the then-middle schooler’s eating regimen.

“My mother would — she would by no means say something to me — however she’d be like, ‘Oh, you’re gonna have one other ice cream?’” she recalled on the PodcastOne present.

The teenager joked that on the time, she would quip again, “‘I don’t care if I’m fats!’ I’d be like, ‘If I’m fats, I’m fats. No matter. It’s my life.’”

But certain sufficient, all the fixed commentary from her mom and sisters — who weren’t so refined — led Milania to vary her way of life.

Nevertheless, the teenager claimed she made her personal choice to lose the burden and, that in the future, “it simply clicked, and I did it.”

Actually, Milania even requested Teresa to rent a nutritionist, who gave her the “healthiest meals” 3 times a day. On prime of that, the then-eighth grader began figuring out twice a day: earlier than faculty and after.

“They must wanna do it themselves,” Teresa chimed in about her 4 daughters. “You possibly can’t pressure them, and I didn’t need her to have a fancy or something, and I believed she seemed lovable. She was just a bit thicker.”

Teresa famous that she at all times discovered the teenager “lovable” and “lovely.”

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But many Bravo followers had been fast to slam the truth TV star for even commenting on her daughter’s urge for food and look at such an impressionable age.

“That’s so unhappy that she felt a lot strain from her circle of relatives to lose that a lot weight in such a brief time period,” one individual wrote. “She was lovely simply as she was.”

“40 lbs in 2 months?!?!? That’s not wholesome in any respect,” one other added, whereas a 3rd wrote, “That is how younger ladies are shamed. It may be the start of a life threatening consuming dysfunction. Let younger ladies be free, joyful and luxuriate in this quick time of their lives.”

Regardless of the backlash, the mother-daughter duo loved an evening in town collectively Tuesday for the Alicia Keys live performance.