{"id":1176823,"date":"2025-12-05T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/?p=1176823"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:40:22","slug":"gia-giudice-outlasted-pro-athletes-to-became-a-special-forces-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/news\/gia-giudice-outlasted-pro-athletes-to-became-a-special-forces-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Gia Giudice Outlasted Pro Athletes to Become a \u2018Special Forces’ Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the famous daughter of one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, Gia Giudice is familiar with the inner-workings of glossy reality television, but that experience would provide zero advantage when signing up for Special Forces: World\u2019s Toughest Test<\/a><\/em>, where celebrity recruits are brought back down to earth during a seriously intense course that mimics a number of genuine elements from real-life United States Special Forces selection. While Giudice got off to a shaky start, she outlasted former athletes from the NBA and NFL to make the final cut, but how did she do it? Now back in her civvies, Giudice gave M&F the inside perspective on TV\u2019s most realist reality show.<\/p>\n

Despite the immense physicality of the show\u2019s challenges, including being submerged under water, rappelling from flying helicopters, running uphill with sandbags, and even brutally boxing other cast members, Gia says the psychological element is the most difficult aspect of Special Forces.<\/em> \u201cI would say the course is 90% mental, 10% physical,\u201d she tells M&F. \u201cBecause you have to be mentally strong to get yourself through each day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gia Giudice Gave Her All to the \u2018Special Forces\u2019 Selection Process<\/h2>\n

Viewers of Special Forces: World\u2019s Toughest Test<\/em> look at each challenge and wonder if they could succeed in the same situation, but they often fail to consider the conditions that each contestant finds themselves in, with only basic food and little-to-no-sleep, each obstacle becomes all the greater. \u201cYou\u2019re almost, like, warped in time,\u201d explains Giudice. \u201cYou really feel like you\u2019re about to go into combat, because we don\u2019t have our phones, we\u2019re disassociated from the real world, and we are there with each other and the DS (the Directing Staff who assign the tasks).\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike most reality-based television shows, the cameras are mostly hidden or stationed at a distance on this one. \u201cWe never see production,\u201d explains Giudice. \u201cThey\u2019re really not even allowed to talk to us. We know we\u2019re being filmed, but it wasn\u2019t like we felt like we were being filmed, way different than filming a reality TV show like Next Gen<\/em> or Real Housewives.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Giudice had initially entered Season 4 of Special Forces: World\u2019s Toughest Test<\/em> with her mom Teresa, opening up on the show about a difficult period in 2014 when both of her parents were handed prison sentences for fraud and failure to file taxes.<\/a>\u00a0 While her parents served their time separately,That whole ordeal forced her to grow up quickly in order to help take care of three younger sisters, all while still just a teenager herself. So, entering the \u201cWorld\u2019s Toughest Test\u201d at 24, the hefty challenge provided Giudice with a chance to finally spread her wings and put herself first, especially when her mom withdrew from the show in episode two, unable to watch her daughter box a fellow contestant in the challenge known as \u201cmilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Mom gone, many observers thought that Giudice would follow, but they underestimated her tenacity. \u201cDuring that moment, I was like, \u2018Am I gonna leave and not put my all into this course?\u2019\u201d she shares. \u201cBecause I knew I had more in me.\u201d Behind the scenes, Teresa Giudice had total faith as well. \u201cWhen she tapped out, she said to the Fox producers, my daughter is gonna win,\u201d reveals Giudice.<\/p>\n

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