Shannon Beador launches healthy food line after 'weight issue'

Shannon Beador is keeping it real about her struggle with her weight.

“I’ve had an internal rollercoaster of a weight issue,” the “Real Housewives of Orange County” star told Page Six on Thursday. “I’d lose a bunch of weight and then I’d say, ‘Okay, now I’m going to eat what I want because I’m tired of starving myself.’ I don’t want to deprive myself anymore.”

“We all want to be as healthy as we can but you can drive yourself crazy with that,” she explained, noting that she tries to “make a few smart and sensible choices during the week” so she can “go order whatever entrée [she] wants at a restaurant” and “have a cocktail on the weekend.”

Beador has teamed up with QVC to create Real for Real Cuisine, a line of reheatable meals under 450 calories.

“My meeting with QVC literally took place about six weeks after I separated from my husband,” Beador said. “So it couldn’t have happened at a better time.”

Beador announced in October that she was separating from her husband David after 17 years of marriage, and she filed for divorce in December.

“I’m a single mom and at my age, I just turned 54, I’m concerned about how I’m going to support my family,” she added. “I mean ‘Housewives’ has been great to me, but that’s not going to last forever so if I can somehow build something that I can show my girls that it’s possible to start anew at this age, then I’ll be doing a good thing.”

Now, she’s busy prepping for her QVC debut on April 18.

“I went back to QVC last week for a training,” she told us. “They let you do like a mock show like a host and then they film it and they critique you and then you get to go back and they film you again and critique you again. So I had some flub ups. It’s just interesting because when you’re trying to sell a food product on television, people can see it but you can’t smell it. You can’t taste it. So it’s up to me to describe those things. So I’m working on that … We’re filming [my appearance] for the show too so we get two cameras on me which is a little bit of pressure, but excited pressure if that makes sense. It’s an excited nervousness!”

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