RHONJ's Dolores Catania Was 'Ashamed' of Her Legs, Wouldn't Let Cameraman Film Below Her Waist
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00:00Even if I was filming, I would say to the cameraman,
00:04like, I'd be like, please be kind to me.
00:07Do not get my legs ever in anything.
00:11I always wear long dresses.
00:14You will never really see me in shorts.
00:17It's been a rare occasion.
00:19If I did, I was very self-conscious.
00:22My first season, when we filmed in Italy,
00:25I forget what, who on Instagram it was,
00:29one of the bad people,
00:31took a picture of a baby's face on a sonogram
00:34and put it next to my knee.
00:37Because I was wearing a pair of ripped jeans in Italy,
00:40which I should have never done anyway.
00:42I deserve to get picked on for that.
00:43But we were in Milan, and I had ripped jeans.
00:47It was very early that I didn't really know
00:50the proper way to dress, and my first time in Europe.
00:53And they made fun of me.
00:54They put a side-by-side of my knee in this picture.
00:58It hurt my feelings so much so that even Frankie,
01:01little Frankie, at the time,
01:03I think he was like 17 years old,
01:05he wrote something back to them.
01:08He said, you know, this might be something you do,
01:10but this is still my mother.
01:12And she's a human being, and it wasn't right to do.
01:16It was body shaming, total body shaming.
01:19But they hit me where it hurt.
01:21What had happened was, years ago, I had liposuction.
01:26And it left a lot of loose skin behind
01:29because when I had started, Renuvion really,
01:32I mean, I'm going back 15 years ago.
01:37People weren't using Renuvion
01:39in combination with liposuction.
01:40So I've been ashamed of my legs for so long.
01:45I've been to so many doctors.
01:47I want a leg lift, and I keep going.
01:49And nobody really had the right thing to help me.
01:53So I went to Dr. Zuckerman in the city.
01:57I had heard he does this skin tightening
02:01called Renuvion, right?
02:03So I went there and he said, sure.
02:04He said I'd get great results.
02:06And that there was actually help for me
02:10for what I have been looking for for so long.
02:13So that's why, that's how I wound up with it.
02:16Because I just never stopped.
02:18I kept looking.
02:18I said, eventually something's gonna come out
02:21that can actually tighten my skin.
02:23It has to happen eventually.
02:25So this is like a godsend.
02:27Well, I'm up five pounds.
02:28So I'm at like 135 right now
02:31because I was in Napa for a week.
02:34No one should go there for a week.
02:35That's a four day stint.
02:36Do not go longer than that.
02:38Otherwise you come back like a blimp.
02:40And I was in Portugal, Spain, South Africa.
02:45So since I had my first summer off in eight years,
02:49I decided to catch up on the traveling
02:51and spend time with my family
02:53that I haven't done in so long.
02:54So I'm not loving it.
02:57Because aside from my knees,
02:59I feel like I've been so busy.
03:02I haven't been to the gym.
03:04I've been off my great diet.
03:08Again, I wasn't able to work out
03:10for like a week or two with the Renuvion.
03:13So I just feel like now it's time.
03:17I'm healed.
03:17I'm ready to get back to the gym.
03:19And there's no quick fix for anything.
03:23Yeah, Renuvion does its job,
03:25but also you have a job to do too.
03:28And that's to be fit and move
03:31and do whatever it is you like,
03:33whether it's Pilates.
03:35There's always something you could find
03:36to keep yourself active and healthy.