'Real Housewives' star Teresa Giudice advises Julie and Todd Chrisley to 'stay connected' while in prison and 'manifest' their future

• Teresa Giudice had advice for Julie and Todd Chrisley about life in prison. 
• She said they should "stay connected" to their kids and "manifest" the future they want.
• The "RHNJ" star served just under a year in prison on similar charges as the Chrisleys in 2015.

"The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice has advice for fellow reality stars Julie and Todd Chrisley as they prepare for life in prison. 

When asked what she would tell them in a recent interview with TMZ, Giudice said the couple should "stand strong for their family and manifest while being in prison what they want when they come out." 

Giudice added that potentially missing milestones in their children's lives will be "very hard...but they have to make the best of it."

Todd and Julie Christley were convicted on various fraud and tax evasion-related charges in June 2022 and sentenced in  November. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Julie was sentenced to seven. The couple is best known for their reality TV show "Christley Knows Best," which premiered on USA Network in 2014. 

Giudice and her ex-husband Joe Giudice were convicted on similar charges in October 2014. The mother of four began serving her prison sentence in January 2015 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. She was released in December of that year having served about 11 months. To pass the time in prison, the reality star wrote a book about her experience. "Standing Strong" was released in October 2017. 

She told TMZ that the Chrisleys should "stay connected to their children" while in prison, noting that her daughters came to visit her "every week." She admitted that this might be a hard schedule for the Chrisley kids to follow, as many of them are older than her kids were when she went to prison. 

Guidice also said the reality stars would get used to prison food, and noted that she worked in the kitchen while serving time because inmates were the cooks at her facility. "I exercised. I manifested. I did yoga every single day," she recalled. "I wrote my book when I was in prison."

Todd Chrisley has five children with two women. Lindsie Chrisley, 33, and Kyle Chrisley, 31, are his oldest children from his marriage to ex-wife Teresa Terry. He and Julie share Chase Chrisley, 26, Savannah Chrisley, 25, and Grayson Chrisley, 16. Julie and Todd also adopted their grandaughter Chloe "Coco" Chrisley, 12, who is Kyle's daughter with ex  Angela Victoria Jonson.