Audriana Giudice wasn't even born yet when her reality star mom, Teresa Giudice,
joined the Real Housewives of New Jersey cast in May 2009.
Audriana made her official debut in September 2009, with her birth documented in Season 2.
Since then, the baby of the family has grown up right before our very eyes. Sadly, though,
viewers have also watched Audriana deal with the downside of fame and her parents' legal troubles,
despite her mother's attempts to shield her from scrutiny.
"How is Audriana dealing with everything?"
"People have said things to her in school."
"What, that her father was in jail?"
"Yeah, and she started crying to me."
Her family's legal woes have been particularly difficult for the child. It all started when
her mother, Teresa Giudice, began an 11-month stint in prison in January 2015 for bankruptcy
and mail fraud, which was followed up by father Joe Giudice's 41-month prison term in March 2016.
Making things even worse, Joe was deported back to his native country,
Italy, upon his release in 2019, as he never became an American citizen.
The absence of her parents for such long periods of her formative childhood years has sadly taken
a toll on Audriana. During one particularly heartbreaking episode of The Real Housewives of
New Jersey, Audriana came to the realization that she has very few memories of her father before
he went to prison. While sifting through family photos with her older sisters Gia and Gabriella,
Audriana had to hold back tears as she struggled to remember life with her father.
"It's very hard watching Audriana not remember these moments because I have so many memories
that I could think of with my father, and she has very few."
The good news in all of this? Audriana has since enjoyed family visits in Italy with Joe,
and now she has new memories to remember.
And she's also started developing her own serious interests, particularly in both
fashion and competitive dance. Teresa Giudice revealed in a Real Housewives of
New Jersey clip that Audriana has become, quote, "obsessed with dance. It's like her passion."
"All my daughters started dance at 2 1/2. But Audriana does competitive dance, and her school
is pretty amazing."
Teresa said that she especially loved traveling to dance competitions with
Audirana all over the country because it is great quality time for the two,
allowing them to catch up on some of the time they missed together when Teresa was in prison.
She added that she thinks dancing is a really healthy outlet for Audriana.
"We've gone through a lot as a family, and I rather her just focus on school,
dance, being a kid. That's the most important thing."
And Audriana also appears to appreciate fashion, an interest she probably inherited from her mama.
Both Audriana and her sister, Milania Giudice, received the opportunity of a lifetime when,
in February 2019, they got to walk at New York Fashion Week, with their mom documenting
everything on Instagram Stories. And it should come as no surprise that both of the young ladies
SLAYED the runway... all while their mother beamed from ear to ear in the audience.
Though some of those pursuits were, of course, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,
Teresa Gudice took to Instagram in June 2020 to sing her baby girl's praises
yet again... this time for graduating the fifth grade.
Although the graduation looked a little different due to COVID-19,
Teresa was sure to make it a special one nonetheless, sharing a photo of her youngest
daughter, Audriana Giudice, donning a bright red graduation cap. Her heartfelt caption read,
"Congratulations to my baby who's not a baby at all anymore! I [am so] proud of
you [and] how hard you work at everything! I know you hate all the videos and pictures
I take but that's just because I don't want to miss a thing!!
You are so absolutely perfect & I can't wait to see what you do!!! Love you to the moon & back."
Even papa bear Joe Giudice got in on the action
from Italy when he dedicated a post of his own to the new grad, gushing
"Congratulations to my daughter! You light up our life with your
smile! You've made us so proud over the years."
Here's hoping the hardest times are now in the past for young Audriana.
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