RHONJ Star Jackie Goldschneider Claps Back After Her Stretch Marks “Became a Discussion”

From Prevention

• Jackie Goldschneider, 43, shared a photo of her and Real Housewives of New Jersey co-star Melissa Gorga.

• In the caption, Goldschneider clapped back after the photo sparked discussion around the lawyer’s stretch marks.

• Goldschneider said she “won’t airbrush my body to perfection.”

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jackie Goldschneider is clapping back after social media users called out her stretch marks in a recent Instagram post with co-star Melissa Gorga. In the photo, Goldschneider’s stomach is exposed, showing some stretch marks.

The mom of four said that the photo turned into a discussion of her stomach on social media, and she was not OK with it. “My beautiful stomach held four healthy children, and those stretch marks remind me every day of how powerful my body is and how much mothers endure during pregnancy,” she said.

“I won’t airbrush my body to perfection so you see a fake version of me or an unrealistic picture of a mother. I love myself and I know that beauty is found in our imperfections,” she continued. “No woman should be ashamed of their stretch marks or anything else about their bodies. Like Eve Ensler said, ‘Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.’ ❤️ .”

Fans flooded the post with messages of support. “Not even just four babies, two sets of TWINS! Your body is magic👏🏽👏🏽,” one person wrote.

“Yes girl! Those are love lines! You are beautiful and strong and those babies of yours are worth all the lines across your tummy! Rock your fierce frame, girl! 😍🔥🙌,” someone else wrote. “When I saw the pic and your stretch marks I was like GO GIRL!! I love that you love yourself! Such an inspiration!”

That’s right: She welcomed four babies—two sets of twins—with husband Evan Goldschneider. She wrote in an Instagram from July that she underwent five rounds of IVF, and it was “well worth it.”

In an essay for Good Housekeeping, Goldschneider wrote that when she was pregnant with her twins boys Adin and Jonas, 12, she was at first disappointed to learn that they were boys, when she was hoping for girls. “I pictured my life as the mother of boys to be one lived at a distance, as a caretaker, observing their experiences with their father,” she wrote. “They’d love me, but not like they loved him. And then they’d leave.”

But her feelings changed once she welcomed them into the world. “I ended up having two more children, a boy and a girl, but this isn’t a story about how I finally felt complete. I was complete moments after my first sons were born. I still wanted a daughter, but I didn’t need that to feel whole as a mother,” she wrote.

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