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Ashlee Holmes is again on social media after a weeks-long hiatus.
In a prolonged submit to her followers and followers, the 34-year-old Actual Housewives of New Jersey alum, who confirmed her bipolar prognosis in June 2022, admitted to experiencing bodily and psychological well being struggles that led her to attract again from her on-line presence.
“Hello. It’s Ashlee. The excellent news? Household is nice. Profession is nice. The ‘unhealthy’ information? On account of some well being points that I’m nonetheless navigating, along with some private stressors, I’ve gained roughly 40lbs since December — and much more during the last yr,” Ashlee started in her June 23 submit on Instagram.
“It’s brought about me to cover myself from all of you in so some ways, it’s made me fairly reclusive, and though my psychological well being has been in house general — I’ve been battling some delicate despair due to it,” she continued.
In accordance with Ashlee, she’s been leaning on her religion, household, and buddies, in addition to sure influencers who’ve taught her to like her physique “in each stage.” Nonetheless, as she admitted, it was formidable to return to a land crammed with criticism.
“I lastly really feel a stage of security and confidence for me to return to social media the way in which I used to have the ability to present up for you guys with out worry of criticism from the keyboard warriors on the market. Trolls are at all times gonna troll. I’m so grateful for these of you who’ve continued to comply with me through the years. I’m again,” she shared. “So… that is the place I’m at in my physique proper now. It might appear to be nothing to a variety of you, nevertheless it issues to me. I’m taking the entire steps to get wholesome from the within out. Come alongside for the experience. I’ll share extra alongside the way in which.”
Alongside together with her submit, Ashlee hinted on the bodily well being issues she was coping with in a sequence of hashtags, which signaled an autoimmune dysfunction, thyroid well being, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), which is a hormonal dysfunction recognized to result in weight achieve.
Following the sharing of the submit, Ashlee’s mother, Jacqueline Laurita, 55, weighed in, sending her daughter love, together with a number of different commenters who applauded the previous actuality star.
As RHONJ followers could know, Ashlee has one son, Camden, whom she welcomed with Pete Malleo in August 2016. The couple bought married in August 2018. Then, two years later, Ashlee confirmed she and Pete had separated.
Jacqueline, Ashlee, and their household have been featured on the primary 5 seasons of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey and briefly returned to the sequence for season seven.
