Abs class for Holmes & other jailbirds
Bravo star-turned jailbird Jen Shah is influencing ladies bebars, hind including by helpTheranos ing fraudster ElizaHolmes beth tone her abs. The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star is serving a 6¹/₂ -year sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, for running a nationwide telemarketing scheme that ripped off thousands of people. Now, The Post is told, she’s running workout classes in the prison yard and giving makeup tutorials with products she buys from the commissary. Shah, 50, pleaded guilty in 2022 to the con, and was ordered to pay back $6.5 million of the cash she extracted from often elderly and vulnerable victims.
But now she has been reinvented as “Jen Fonda” and has come up with a 30to 60-minute ab workout class she calls “Shah-mazing,” her longtime publicist Chris Giovanni told The Post.
It includes cardio blasts and ab flexors as part of the routine at the minimumsecurity prison camp.
“She created it in prison. It started off as something she was doing to improve her fitness,” Giovanni said.
Glam tutorials, too
“As she went in she lost a good amount of weight. She developed the Shah-mazing abs class . . . all the ladies started coming up to her on the yard and they would do workout segments.”
Holmes — the disgraced Theranos founder who is serving 9 years and 6 months of her 11 year, 3 month sentence — is a participant, Giovanni told The Post.
“Elizabeth [Holmes] attended with other inmates and it’s become a thing in there. Jen Fonda, that’s her nickname in there.”
Shah — who starred on “RHSLC” from 2020 to Season 3 in 2022 — has also
stocked up on foundation she purchased from the commissary to give glam tutorials she’s learned over the years from being in showbiz.
“She has helped a few ladies — they might ask, ‘How much [makeup] should I put on,’ she gives a little advice,” Giovanni said. And Shah also spends her days reading self-help and motivational books with the promise of perhaps one day penning her own.
“She reads to pass time. She spends most of her time journaling. She has over 90-something pages of her experience. She’s doing what she can and pass time,” Giovanni told The Post.
“She gets up, she prays, she works in a library and then she mentors the other inmates on her downtime who are trying to get their GED,” Giovanni told The Post. “The ladies have developed a good relationship.”
The seemingly wholesome routine is a far cry from the crime Shah committed.
The scheme convinced victims to buy business services that would help them make money all the while pressuring victims to purchase additional “business services,” leading them to accrue debt, according to court filings.