Jackie Goldschneider, THE WEIGHT OF BEAUTIFUL: My Battle with Anorexia and Journey to Recovery
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, chats with Zibby about THE WEIGHT OF BEAUTIFUL, the courageously candid memoir about her decades-long battle with anorexia and public journey to recovery. Jackie shares the origins of her disordered eating—from generational food trauma to cultural diet obsessions—and the emotional toll it took on her family, body, and joy. She and Zibby both reflect on their experiences with food, body image, and painful pressures of perfection. Finally, Jackie reveals what she’s working on next!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Jackie Goldschneider is the author of The Weight of Beautiful, My Battle |
| 0:48.4 | with Anorexia and Journey to Recovery. Jackie is a star of the Bravo hit TV show, The Real Housewives |
| 0:54.0 | of New Jersey. Before joining |
| 0:56.0 | the show in 2018, Jackie was an attorney and freelance journalist. Her writing has appeared in |
| 1:01.3 | good housekeeping, Huff Post, and Scary Mommy among others. The way to beautiful is her debut book-length |
| 1:06.6 | work. Jackie graduated magna cum laude from Boston University and received her jurist |
| 1:11.8 | doctorate from Fordham University School of Law before practicing law in New York City. |
| 1:16.3 | She now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their children. |
| 1:19.2 | Welcome, Jackie. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Books to talk about the weight of beautiful |
| 1:24.4 | my battle with anorexia and journey to recovery. Congratulations. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. I loved your book so much. I like poured over every word |
| 1:33.6 | on every page and it was so moving. You were so open. I could feel like the rawness of it all, |
| 1:41.5 | the newness of some of it, like just having to say it and get it |
| 1:45.1 | out there, like that is so courageous and important that you're doing this and you're |
| 1:50.7 | going to help so many people if you haven't already. |
| 1:52.7 | Oh, that's very nice. |
| 1:54.4 | Thank you. |
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