Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is sticking up for fellow reality star Kim Kardashian.
In her new book “Baby Bumps,” the “Jersey Shore” star devotes a chapter to how she handled pregnancy weight gain. Snooki, who once suffered from anorexia, says she was at first bothered by her baby weight, but eventually came to grips with it — despite the media. “So much is made in the media about celebrity pregnancy weight gain,” Snooki writes. “Some women have been mocked cruelly for it. Tabloid monitoring of how fast women lose the baby weight is practically a blood sport. If you weren’t on the cover of In Touch in a bikini within two months of giving birth to talk about your salsa workout, you were a fat, lazy loser.”
She continues, “Just look at how Jessica Simpson and Kim Kardashian were tracked and criticized in the media. Awful! Worrying about weight gain made the nine months even harder. The one bright spot of pregnancy was eating whatever you wanted.”
Snooki gave birth to her son Lorenzo in August 2012, and then rapidly lost weight. Her book comes out Jan. 14.