• The 50-year-old star is eagerly anticipating the start of new life.
• She is excited to celebrate New Year with her husband.
• Teresa and Louie have been delighted with how their families have come together.

Teresa Giudice is prepared. The 50-year-old Real Housewives of New Jersey star is eagerly anticipating the start of the New Year with a new husband, a larger blended family, and a busy job.

As they exclusively share their family’s New Year’s photo shoot, Teresa says next to her husband Luis “Louie” Ruelas, “I simply want peace, love, happiness, and health, and I’m leaving toxicity [behind].”

“Life is short, it’s very valuable, so you have to value the time that you have on this Earth and surround yourself with good people, good vibes, people that are happy for you. It’s really important, and especially for my children, I want them to see that also,” she continues. “I just want to have a great time.”

Teresa has experienced her share of great occasions, like the fairytale wedding she and Louie had on August 6, 2022, in front of 220 guests at the Park Chateau Estate & Gardens in East Brunswick, New Jersey. The wedding was captured on video by Bravo, and it will be shown in a special that is anticipated to appear following the conclusion of the next 13th season of RHONJ, which will premiere on February 7.

“Everyone’s going to see how much fun I had at my wedding. It was the best time that I ever had on TV,” Teresa says. “I can’t wait to relive it ’cause I know I missed some things because we were taking pictures.”

“This time around, our wedding, everything we did was for us. Usually [you have to] think about other people, or your families get involved, and try to get in, meddle … but I didn’t think about everybody else,” she adds.

That approach also applied to Teresa’s wedding hairstyle, which this past year gained the attention of its own thanks to social media crazes from fans and co-stars as well as celebrities like Kelly Ripa who recreated the look for Halloween.

“I thought Kelly Ripa looked amazing. Oh my god, she looked so beautiful,” says Teresa. “But I never thought that was going to happen. … I love dramatic. That’s my whole thing. I like to be different, unique, and something to stand out in anything I do. I like a wow factor.”

Teresa and Louie have been delighted with how their families have come together since they began dating in 2020 on the domestic front this year.

Before they met, Teresa and ex-husband Joe Giudice shared four daughters: Gia, 21, Gabriella, 18, Milania, 16, and Audriana, 13, and Louie shared two sons: Louie Jr., 19, and Nicholas, 21 (who was ill and unable to attend the family photo shoot).

“We all came into our lives with our own stories … so it was like, ‘How are we going to be in these roles?'” says Louie. “[Teresa and I] started looking at each other like, ‘Look, we got this right, so let’s get this right. Let’s give these kids the best days and mornings that they could have.'”

Adds Teresa, “Everything was perfect. I love his family so much… What I have with him is what I have always wanted and more. … I love the way he is with my daughters, the man he is, and the father he is to his sons. Just everything.”

“The girls embrace Louie, and it’s beautiful,” she notes. “Little Louie hangs out with the girls all the time. They go out together … and of course, Nicholas, too. When I see my girls, how they are with Nicholas, they embrace him so much.”

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