Jersey Shore: Family Vacation star Jenni “JWoww” Farley is responding to critics who targeted her appearance.
After a video showing Farley with a noticeably slimmer physique appeared on social media Friday, September 18, commenters quickly began criticizing her weight.
The 41-year-old reality star addressed the remarks herself, including speculation that she had used Ozempic or another GLP-1 medication to lose weight.
“Apologies to everyone offended by my weight lol,” she wrote. “I have never been this thin since middle school, but unfortunately, I was told I couldn’t eat for six days in the hospital as they debated taking out my appendix while I was also suffering from a kidney abscess the size of a golf ball… Appendicitis and a kidney infection suck, and because I had this ongoing, I was losing weight over the summer.”
Jenni “JWoww” Farley previously pushed back at body shamers after sharing her first swimsuit photo in five years. In an Instagram video posted Tuesday, June 9, she joked about seeing a Google alert describing her as “deathly sick” simply because she had lost weight.
She continued, “But what sucks more is the fact that I can’t control how thin I am right now, and I did not do any ‘shots’ for this to happen… But I will ask when I gain all the [weight] back for you to then comment about how fat I got 😂😂 because women can’t win either way.”
Several followers came to Farley’s defense, criticizing the harsher comments about her body and health.
“As someone who has been through major health battles myself, this breaks my heart. People have NO idea what illness does to the body,” one user wrote. “There’s a total lack of sympathy and understanding from those who expect everyone to be 100% all the time. They think if they can’t feel it, it isn’t real. It’s not true. You are a warrior, and you just keep shining bright ✨️💜”
Jenni “JWoww” Farley. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)
Another follower encouraged Farley to focus on her recovery, writing, “Do what you have to do to make yourself healthy. People will always have opinions. The only ones that matter know your struggle and support you.”
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Earlier this month, Farley revealed more details about the health crisis that resulted in her hospitalization.
“Not the ‘first day of school’ picture I wanted to post… but then again, I guess we wouldn’t have one,” she wrote on Instagram September 3, alongside a photo of herself in a hospital gown.
Farley has also faced criticism over her wedding guest list. In an Instagram video posted Thursday, June 25, she defended her decision not to invite certain people to her wedding to Zack Carpinello, telling them, “You proved my point.”
Her daughter, Meilani, 12, and son, Greyson, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband Roger Mathews, also appeared in the photo.
“This past week has probably been one of the hardest weeks of my life,” Farley wrote. “I’ve spent every day fighting to get healthy enough to get home to my family while dealing with a horrible kidney infection and appendicitis.”
She said she had felt that something was wrong with her body for “months” before she was admitted to the hospital.
“I want to say it came out of nowhere, but the truth is, I haven’t felt like myself for months,” she explained. “Weight loss, exhaustion, constantly feeling off … and then last Friday, my body finally said, ‘We aren’t making it like this anymore.’”