Snooki opens up about connecting with her birth mom
It may the first time Snooki blacked out from something other than dirty martinis.
'Jersey Shore' star Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi was six months old when she was adopted — and at 36, she finally heard her birth mother's voice for the first time — a highly anticipated phone call filmed for the world to see.
'I feel like I blacked out in that moment,' Polizzi told The Post ahead of Season 8 of 'Jersey Shore: Family Vacation,' which airs on May 29.
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'It was just a bunch of emotions … You're going to see of all it.'
The reality star — who was born in Santiago, Chile, and adopted by Andy and Helen Polizzi of Marlboro, NY — said she was never interested in connecting with her birth family.
4 Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi spoke to her birth mother for the very first time in Episode 2 of Season 8 of 'Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.'
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She was inspired to learn more about them after her castmate Angelina Pivarnick found her birth father through New Jersey-based adoptee-turned-investigative genealogist and DNA expert Pamela Slaton during Season 7 of the spinoff series.
'I never wanted to reach out or find anything, but maybe just like get pictures of what they look like, because I never had anyone look like me until I had my kids,' Polizzi, now 37, explained.
'So I was just like, 'I would love to see what my birth mom looks like, if I have any siblings.' And I thought it was going to stop there.'
4 The reality star, who was born in Santiago, Chile, was adopted by Andy and Helen Polizzi of Marlboro, NY.
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Polizzi contacted Slaton and 'she literally got it done in like two weeks,' she explained.
'She's phenomenal. And she keeps everything secret. She doesn't say who's trying to reach out. She just finds the information without having to contact the people, which is crazy.'
Once Polizzi got the information, though, she changed her mind, and agreed to the call.
'And I got the binder. And I saw what they looked like. And then we ended up reaching out. And it was through a text. And then it went to a phone conversation. So it was a lot of things that I didn't think I was going to do,' she said.
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4 Polizzi, a mom of three, told The Post, 'I never had anyone look like me until I had my kids.'
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She still hasn't seen her birth parents face to face, but is open to the possibility.
'I'm actually still in the process of maybe doing a Zoom with them,' she added.
Polizzi, herself a mom of three, has 'Jersey Shore' to thank for starting her own family.
She met her husband, Jionni LaValle, on Season 3 of the show and the couple has three children — Lorenzo, 12, Giovanna, 10, and Angelo, 5 — who Polizzi hopes will 'never' watch the reality series.
'Well, my kids do see some clips on TikTok … my oldest … he's like, 'Mom, what is this?' And I just say, 'I'm acting.''
4 Polizzi met her husband, Jionni LaValle, on 'Jersey Shore' and the couple have three children, Lorenzo, 12, Giovanna, 10, and Angelo, 5.
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There is one clip in particular — of her being arrested in Seaside Heights for public intoxication — that her kids have questioned.
'I said, 'That was an act. That was the scene I had to do. It was like a movie set,'' she recalled.
'You deserve an Oscar for that one,' Polizzi's co-star, Vinny Guadagnino quipped.
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