Janet Caperna says acute gastritis and colitis caused nearly 20-pound loss

Pagesix reports that Janet Caperna, the star of The Valley, said acute gastritis and colitis caused her to lose nearly 20 pounds in 12 days and required two hospital visits.

She told the Daily Mail she began vomiting after holiday revelry and initially thought it was food poisoning: "It's usually set off by something like food poisoning and it was just wreaking havoc on my body," she said. Caperna described constant pain and an inability to keep even a sip of water down — "If I had a baby sip of water I would throw up" — adding that "it was like my insides were wrung out and it felt like I had hot glass moving through me" and that she does not "want to glamorize looking like this."

On Instagram she wrote she had "a pretty rough go at it the last 2 weeks", will "probably will look pretty unhealthy for the next few months" while regaining weight and is "finally starting to feel so much better". Her husband Jason Caperna commented in support: "I’ve watched how hard the last few weeks have been on you — the fear, the exhaustion, the setbacks — and I’m beyond proud of the strength you’ve shown through all of it ... Bright days ahead." She also told listeners on her podcast that she had overindulged during the holidays, including "a third of a cheese wheel on Thanksgiving," and noted she previously lost weight after the birth of son Cameron in 2023 "the hard way" rather than using weight-loss drugs.

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