Milania Giudice may have officially moved from New Jersey to Florida to attend the University of Tampa, but she isn’t ready to say goodbye to her mom Teresa Giudice just yet.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey daughter, whom Teresa shares with her ex-husband Joe Giudice, revealed as much in a TikTok uploaded on August 26. The video shows a teary-eyed Milania mouthing the words from a popular sound on the app, “Why are you leaving me? I’m going to miss you,” as Teresa looks on from the background. Though she’s crying, Milania also makes a point to laugh several times in the clip.
“i start classes in 3 hours help!” Milania captioned the TikTok. “i don’t want my mom to leave.”
Teresa shared an equally emotional video of her hugging a crying Milania as part of an Instagram post that also featured a photo of Milania in her dorm room, a video of Milania saying goodbye to her stepdad Luis “Louie” Ruelas, and a video of Milania waving as she returned to her dorm.
Milania Giudice posts an image of herself with her mother to her instagram. Photo: Milania Giudice/Instagram
“And she’s off,” Teresa’s caption on the August 26 post began. “leaving you this morning; I know you will do amazing things and make Mommy so proud at the University of Tampa. Today is the start of a new, exciting chapter! I love you so much and can’t wait to watch everything you accomplish over these next four years.”
Why is Milania Giudice attending the University of Tampa?
In March 2024, Milania explained why she picked the University of Tampa as her college choice.
“Honestly, I have grown so much to hate the cold. I’m so over the cold weather,” the New Jersey native said at the time. “I also didn’t do the SAT, I didn’t do the test. I am not a test taker, I do not like taking tests, I hate taking tests. And I knew I had good grades, so I was like, ‘I’m just going to put in schools that go test-optional.’ I knew I want warm weather, because I’m so over the cold. I just want[ed] to be close to a beach.”
There’s also the fact that Tampa is only a short plane ride away from Nassau, Bahamas, which is where her dad Joe has been living. As Milania put it, “I really thought about it, like, ‘Wait a minute. Florida is 30 minutes away from my dad on a plane. That’s so amazing.’ So, whenever I have a few days off from class or something, I’ll go see my dad. It’s go[ing to] be so great.”
Milania posts a photo of herself and Joe on January 16, 2024 in Paradise Island, Bahamas to Instagram. Photo: Milania Giudice/Instagram
What is Milania Giudice majoring in at the University of Tampa?
During a visit to Bravo headquarters on July 2, Teresa revealed that Milania has not yet decided on her college major. Teresa’s second youngest daughter did, however, recently come to a realization about what she wanted to do for a living.
“We were in Paris, and [Milania] was like, ‘Mommy, I know you’re famous, but I want to be so famous that I can’t even sit here in this café right now,'” Teresa recalled about the exchange. “That’s how famous I want to be.”