I didn’t buy Teresa’s first book, Turning Tables, or whatever it is called. I did spend about fifteen minutes or so flipping through it in a Target store one day. It was poorly written and didn’t really say much at all about her time in jail. Maybe I just felt that way because I had purchased Orange Is the New Black on CD for a recent car trip before skimming through Teresa’s version of prison life. OITNB is a great audio book if you are planning any long trips. It lasts for exactly the amount of time it takes to drive from Atlanta to Charleston and back. It gives you a real look into the prison. I remember just flipping through pages looking for the part where Teresa actually talks about her situation in some real sort of way, and then eventually giving up.
Today US posted the prologue to Standing Strong. There is obviously a new ghostwriter for this one as there is a lot of intriguing information right off the bat. I was distracted by the typos. I know this is hypocritical of me because I have more typos than anyone but I am pumping out multiple stories and recaps all day long while trying to feed the dog and maybe even feed myself or wash a dish. If I were writing a book, I’d self edit and then send it to an editor. So I am confused as to whether someone just typed this from the book or if that is actually how the book is published.
Anyway, Teresa sounds miserable. Her father is living with her and is in poor health. She almost missed the trip to Italy because she was in the hospital with him the day before.
“My husband, Joe, is currently serving a forty-one-month sentence, but you already know that, just like you know that I spent eleven and a half months of my life inside a federal prison camp for women in Danbury, Connecticut. Like Frank Sinatra, my husband did it his way. And look where it got us.”
“So there I sat on that particular Sunday at 4:00 a.m. in the ER waiting room, reading Joe’s email from late Saturday night, just a few hours before, asking me in a not-so-polite way where I was, who I was with, and what I was doing at that moment. Was he fucking kidding me? Well, honey, here are the answers to your email.”
That doesn’t sound good. Combine that with the fact that she talks about her creepy lawyer who is now her manager, I’d say the chances of her divorcing Joe are pretty high. You should always listen to Caroline Manzo. She always know the real deal. Side note: when I put in a link I have to do a site search that uses the words in the title. I typed in Teresa Attorney for that one and got pages of options.
“Welcome to my (not so) glamorous life. I’m about to get very real. More than I ever have before. No holding back. No glossing over. No smiling through the pain. I’m digging deep, opening up, and putting it all out there. I’m spilling my true feelings about what’s gone down in the last couple of years. It’s my time to speak up.”
Am I just being led down the primrose path again? Or do you think Teresa is ready to throw Joe under the bus?
WOW! She’s not only gonna be throwing Joe under the bus but it sounds like she’ll be driving that bus too! It does sound like it might be a good book.
She is sooooo leaving him! Caroline knows all!
She’s saying her life is a fucking horror movie. Her husband handled finances compares to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Something about how she’s able to fill the Met Stadium. I was getting so upset reading the excerpts, I had to stop.
She is still full of Shit and will always be a lying piece of Shit.
It makes the Exxon Valdez oil spill look like a glass of spilled red wine.
She stayed at met stadium so she guessed she sold a lot of books.
Tre doesn’t know what Exxon on is, has never heard of the Valdez oil spill and probably just throws her face into red wine spills so why would her ghost writer not at least try to sound like Tre?
TT, please don’t feel you have to explain a typo in here. I seldom ever notice it, and you put out a lot of words in a day. A book is different. The typos in new lower cost books are horrible. I resent them and immediately think less of author. I resent when authors get locations, streets and distances wrong also.
Joes thinks if he deported Teresa is going with him, supposedly that was the agreement they made.
Teresa’s new book sounds like it’s the prelude to her “fans” as to how bad Joe has been and is. In your quotes from book Teresa is blaimong Joe for their mess.
Set up Joe for when she divorces she will look good for leaving the creep.
Getting good advice from somewhere.
Again hate typos in books, love audio books and have a huge collection of books on cassette tapes. What to do?
TT, please don’t feel you have to explain a typo in here, I seldom see one and you put out a lot of words in a day.
A book is different. The typos in new lower cost books are horrible, no editing. I resent them and immediately think less of author. I resent when authors get locations, streets and distances wrong also.
Joes thinks if he is deported Teresa/girls are going with him, that was what Teresa told him she wanted.
Teresa’s new book sounds like it’s the prelude to her “fans” as to how bad Joe really is. In your quotes from book Teresa is blaming Joe for everything.
Shes setting up Joe for when she divorces she will not be blamed for leaving him.
Quotes from book are brain cell killers.
Getting good advice from somewhere.
Live audio books and have a huge collection of books on cassette tapes. What to do?
Been known to miss my exit and be miles away before noticing.
Ops I did not do double clicking It’s all Joes fault.
She likes to pretend she wasn’t complicit in the crimes; even if anyone actually believed that, it was her dumbass flashing all the cash in season 1 that brought extra attention to her family.
I’m pretty positive (from reading this site) the government was investigating them before the show even began filming/airing. Flashing the money certainly didn’t help their cause with the public. Hadn’t they been defrauding banks to obtain loans for years? Teresa never takes responsibility-it’s really astounding, that stupid wide-eyed look, her complete conviction that she did, ‘NOTHING WRONG!” It’s everyone else. Her signature was all over the bank documents and she sat with loan officers pretending she had jobs to qualify them for the loans when she was staying at home, spending the money, yet it’s all Joe’s fault. She’s really just a victim y’all. My heart bleeds.
Yes, that was ridiculous when she pulled out that huge roll of cash and starts peeling off the $100 bills to pay for the furniture. What the heck was that? That was insane, like she was some dope dealer. So fishy looking.
I wonder how her old school Catholicism will play into this?
I’d say while her father is still alive she will not divorce Joe.
If he passes, of course she will divorce him. By the time he gets out of jail and on the boat to Italy, it will be four years or so since she has lived with him.
Tre is not really an “Old School Catholic”. She is a Catholic for the holidays and the celebrations. I am an “Old School Catholic” and we can spot those other ones a mile away.
My maiden name is “Sabatini”, being raised a strict Italian Catholic meant being raised based on fear.
Fear of getting in trouble, association with bad people. I had a very judgmental upbringing where I knew it was my parents ways or wrong.
Actually, quite stressful, and I won’t even begin to get into the church. I see a lot with Teresa I find not “exactly old school” but, that was my experience. Grew up in Pa. till age 5. All relatives lived within looking out front kitchen window to see each other distance. Or backyards led to front doors.
I do have a issue with her saying how things are with “real Italian families”. I would never use her as an example.
Typos are what they are.. quickly written words.. but to be published. Is she contrite? Does she now believe Joe’s money was made from defrauding people for years? Does she acknowledge her involvement?
Too many questions. Joe and Tre lied for years and stupidly spent other peoples hard earned cash on their fake TV lifestyle.
Joe is lucky to put two sentences together… that make sense and Tre is no better.
IMHO, Joe is heading to the old country…sans Teresa.
I hope she does divorce him. Those two are toxic together and too stupid for words. I’ll never forget Lauren asking her how to spell a word she had supposedly written in her blog and Teresa said nothing . God I miss you Carolyn!
It’s so annoying. She’s saying what about if I instead of Teresa Guidice, the reality star, become Teresa Smith, the real estate person in Kentucky? Or Louisville, or Lexington? Wonder if they have good restaurants in Kentucky. Where will she get her hair done? (I kid you not) What will her new friends look like? Will the paparazzi come looking for her? These are her concerns in her book. Everyone knows Damn well she is back on the show, exactly who and what she is and has always been.
She is so full of Shit.
A felon can’t be a real estate agent in most states. Kentucky would toss her back.
I think she spell zen! Can she define it? Better choice namaste…
“I want to be Zen.”
TT- I am hoping in the not to distant future TG is a non news story and fades away. I hate that Bravo is financing felons lives. Blogs continue to give her life and money. In the most cordial way possible, I am suggesting that you NOT post about people like this. You are truly on a journey of positivity, and these people just drag you down.
I am probably in the tiny tiny majority that believes she just signed whatever her husband put in front of her, believed what he said and spent money recklessly.
It’s not uncommon in Italian American families that the wife, the homemaker, blindly trusts her husband.
That said, the concept of being “wealthy” was so new to her that she went a bit nuts on garbage and not say, private school tuitions is telling. The Guideces never belonged to any country clubs or showed any type of corncern about saving for the future which is unusual in Italian American families– or any recent immigrant families.
I live in Northern NJ and my parents are second and first generation Americans. And they did very well. But they, unlike Joe and Teresa, invested, paid off their mortgage in 5 years, put my brother and I through private schools, joined a country club, etc. that’s not to say my family hasn’t had our own or more than our own fair share of losses, particularly losing my brother last year but we have done it quietly, privately and without costing other tax payers for our personal losses.
If she were to leave him and that ridiculous home she would be a LOT better off. Property taxes here are insane. I can’t even imagine how much debt my husband and I would have if we pulled at Joe and bought a home on the top of price we were approved for.
“I am probably in the tiny tiny majority that believes she just signed whatever her husband put in front of her, believed what he said and spent money recklessly.”
The only people who believe this are people who don’t know the types of crime these two assholes committed. It was not just signing documents. She marched into a variety of banks and said she was a real estate agent and a variety of of jobs and produced fake W-2 forms for jobs she knew full well she did not have. She was fully complicit in the fraud and some of her charges were not shared with Joe.
Yes TT! Set the record straight! There was no ” I didn’t know what I was signing” excuse. She is a felon. A criminal who knew exactly what she was doing. And boo hoo. Both she and Joe got caught. Why ANDY the cunt keeps supporting her is beyond my comprehension. Me thinks he is a user for ratings! Ya think? YES! Someday this will bite ANDY in the ass and I cannot wait for that day to come!
Wow. She finally got pissed. I’ll buy this piece of nonsense to read on vacation because it will make me feel better about my life.
or borrow it from your library.!
I don’t think in San Diego County will they buy more than 1 book for all the libraries. I looked for a cookbook of hers a few years back. Nothing to be found available. Humm must have been spending their money on more interesting books.
No, her ghost writer has decided that this is what the fans want to know and is doing his or her best to sell books.
She won’t divorce him…she should but she won’t. He is all she knows. They were together as teens and that is how she was raised. She will definitely not divorce while her dad is alive…plus I think that Teresa would rather die than to have her brother, Joe and Melissa have their marriage to laud over her head.
I’ll forgive your typos if you forgive mine…deal? ?
I read the prologue and it is clearly totally ghostwritten b/c the writing style and tone are completely different from her last book. If she is SO busy how did she “write” a book? Also, does anyone really think Teresa knows what the Exxon Valdez oil spill was?
Or the Bill Murray reference? Si beyond her.
I don’t buy it. And even if she does, she’s just saying whatever she has to, to sell her book
That’s all that matters to her now. Money and how to get it.
She’ll never leave or divorce Joe.
And she will explain all this stuff she writes in the book away like she did her crimes.
‘Such a massive mess that it makes the Exxon Valdez oil spill seem like a glass of spilled red wine.’
I mean, come on. She doesn’t even know what half the words in that sentence mean.
Ridiculous. Teresa wouldn’t understand a metaphor if one came up and punched her in the face.
In addition, the Valdez spill occurred when an exhausted crew member, albeit with good intentions, made a mistake. Joe and Teresa executed their crimes with their eyes wide open and with malicious intent. To compare their situation with an event as significant as the Exxon Valdez crash is a ridiculous attempt for Teresa to dramatize the situation and to cast herself as a victim.
Ugh Caroline making those remarks were so out of order especially considering no one could dare utter a word about her precious holy family. I would be majorly shocked if Teresa divorced Joe.
The way the creepy, attention whore lawyer is prominently featured in the prologue, I wonder if he’s the new ghostwriter. If not, one might consider he arranged it and promised a bonus for each time he’s mentioned.
I think she’s feeling out whether her brand will still provide the same income if she divorces Joe. She has always said that she will stay with him. I’m sure she has wanted to leave him for a long while.