Dolores Catania Confirms She Had A Tummy Tuck And Liposuction While Waiting For Season 11 Of ‘RHONJ’ To Resume Production!

Dolores Catania reveals she had a tummy tuck while production on season 11 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey was suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I found the most amazing doctor in Maryland, Dr. Joseph Michaels,” she told Us Weekly on the publication's “Hot Hollywood” podcast.

“I’ve been up and down with my weight and my elasticity on my skin has gotten shot and well, I’m not going to kill myself over this because it is what it is, but I eat McDonald’s, I didn’t work out for a long time and whatever. … I looked at his Instagram and I almost fell off my couch. It was insane. His before and afters are like nothing I’ve ever seen almost to the fact I thought it was fake!”

The mother-of-two revealed that she was Mr. Michaels’ first appointment after his practice was allowed to reopen amid the pandemic one month ago, and admits that her recovery hasn’t been easy.

“I want to say, ‘Oh my God, go get it,’ because I want everybody to go to this guy because he’s so good,” she said. “Anybody whose doing this should go to him, even though it was a four-hour drive for me. It’s not easy and I’m tough. It’s not my first rodeo with plastic surgery, but this one was a little rough.”

Catania added that she got liposuction on the same day as her tummy tuck procedure. “He did a little fat transfer. So, he took some lipo, he did my back and then he took some of the fat from my back and he made my butt rounder,” she shared.

The Bravo reality star also shared that her boyfriend wasn’t happy with her plastic surgery decision.

“Dr. David wants to break up with me because I lied to him about doing this. He is so not into elective procedures,” she told Us Weekly. “He’s just so against it. The night before I was leaving, I told him I’m going to Virginia tomorrow. He goes, ‘Oh, for work?’ I said, ‘No, for a tummy tuck.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, right.’ I drove, I was gone the next morning.”

She hopes viewers will get to see her recovery process as filming is expected to resume later this month.

“Hopefully. We don’t know [for sure],” she added. “I really hope because I was ready to go. We were filming. We were two weeks into filming and we took a brief break because Teresa’s father was very ill and then we went back to work and then two days later the stay-at-home order was mandated.”

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