SHE’S A BRICK ‘HOUSE’
Teresa mighty mighty
She ripped off creditors — and now she’s just plain ripped.
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice, who pumped iron while in federal prison for fraud, flaunted her oiled-up muscles at a female bodybuilding championship over the weekend.
The married 46-year-old mother of four wore a sparkly purple bikini as she flexed her toned tummy and jacked backside in the swimsuit portion of the NPC South Jersey Bodybuilding Championships in Medford, NJ, on Saturday.
“[She] wanted to challenge herself physically and is extremely happy with how she did,” a source close to the reality star told The Post.
Results posted online show she placed third out of seven competitors in the contest’s over-40 bikini division.
Giudice — who also wore glittery silver stiletto heels and dangly earrings onstage — began training for the competition in December with intense workouts five or six times a week, along with “drastically” changing her diet, the source said.
In October 2014, Giudice was sentenced to 15 months behind bars for her role in a bankruptcy-fraud case in which she and her husband, Joe, falsely claimed to be millions of dollars in debt. He is serving a 41-month sentence for the scheme.
Fitness became an important part of Giudice’s routine while locked up and after her release in 2015. In her postprison memoir, “Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again,” Giudice outlined plans to become a yoga instructor. Her brother, Joe Gorga, showed up at Saturday’s bodybuilding competition to cheer her on.