'RHOC' Star Shannon Beador Talks Weight Struggles Amid Quarantine

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Shannon Beador didn't have the easiest time coping with the restrictions of the COVID-19 quarantine last year. 

During a recent interview on Us Weekly's "Getting Real With the Real Housewives" podcast, "The Real Housewives of Orange County" cast member shared what she regrets about her time at home with her boyfriend, John Janssen, and three kids before dishing on her pandemic struggles and her ongoing weight ups and downs.

“I think letting fear overtake me. I can’t do that. I have to let go," Beador told the outlet on March 27. 

"I have to learn to let go and I’ve been working on that a lot too. I’m looking into my own self and realizing what makes me a healthier person and worrying and fear is wasted energy,” Beador continued.

As fans of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" saw years ago, Beador put on weight after enduring a messy split from her now ex-husband, David Beador, at the end of 2017. And, in the years since, her weight has continued to fluctuate.

“I’ve always been a thin person so it was very tough for me, it was heavy on my heart to have gained the weight that I have and I’m still, I'm in the process of my glow up right now," Beador explained. "I’m finally starting to lose that COVID weight and then I’m going to stay there because this rollercoaster doesn’t work for me very well."

According to Beador, she has confidence in her ability to maintain a healthy weight after putting on a few added pounds during quarantine because she's in a great place in her life.

"I just think that everything that’s happening in my life right now, especially with the business starting, my Lemonade tincture launched about three weeks ago and it’s doing incredibly well and we’re working on developing more products right now so it’s just a very exciting time," Beador shared on the podcast. 

Beador went on to reveal that she's actually going back to school. 

"And to be going to school in addition, it just kind of… I don’t know, I feel really good,” she gushed.

“It did. I kind of lived in fear because I’m not good with the unknown and so through that, I ate and drank more than I normally do and I wasn’t as active and I was just scared," Beador admitted. "But now I think thankfully everything is starting to open up here and I’m hoping everyone is healthy and we get rid of this thing soon. I’m committed this year to good health.”

"The Real Housewives of Orange County" season 16 has not yet gone into production.