RHONJ’s Jackie Goldschneider Details Eating Disorder Recovery

In particular, the summertime can stir up a range of emotions for Jackie, who explained, “I was filming and I was wearing a little tank top and all I kept thinking, ‘What about this area here and this area here?’ And, you know…who cares? It’s just skin.”

Being transparent is important to Jackie, who said she wants to be honest about her challenges, “because I don’t want people to think that it’s a really quick process of recovery and it’s easy, because it’s not.”

The star noted that “it’s definitely possible” to heal from an eating disorder and celebrated some of her recent milestones, including the feeling of having “more freedom.”

“We were filming and then when wrapped, a bunch of us were going to go get dinner,” she recalled, “and in the past, if that wasn’t a designated night out, I would have gone home. I would have made an excuse and gone home. But I just went out and had dinner.”