Bravo star-turned-jailbird Jen Shah is influencing ladies behind bars — including helping Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes tone her abs.
The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” alum is serving a six-and-a-half year sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, for running a nationwide telemarketing scheme that ripped off thousands of people, many of them elderly.
Now, Pvnew is told, she’s running workout classes in the prison yard and giving makeup tutorials with products she buys from the commissary — and even managed a “sushi” birthday feast.
Shah, 50, pleaded guilty in July 2022 to the con and was ordered to pay back $6.5 million of the cash she extracted from elderly and vulnerable victims.
But now she has been reinvented as “Jen Fonda” and has come up with a 30- to 60-minute ab workout class she calls “Shah-mazing,” her longtime manager Chris Giovanni tells Pvnew.
It includes cardio blasts and ab flexors as part of the routine at the minimum-security prison camp.
“She created it in prison. It started off as something she was doing to improve her fitness,” Giovanni shares.
“As she went in, she lost a good amount of weight. She developed the Shah-mazing abs class. … All the ladies started coming up to her on the yard and they would do workout segments.
“Elizabeth [Holmes] attended with other inmates, and it’s become a thing in there. Jen Fonda, that’s her nickname in there.”
Shah’s claims against Bravo’s production companies follow similar allegations made in a Vanity Fair report that “Real Housewives of New York City” alum Ramona Singer used the N-word in 2021.
The investigation was deemed “inconclusive.”
Singer, 66, denied using the racial slur.
Giovanni says Shah is focusing her efforts on getting through her sentence. Her release date has been pushed up to July 1, 2028, from Aug. 2028, according to the Bureau of Prisons, under the very limited room for early release from federal sentences.
“She’s focusing on staying mentally strong while in there and remaining as connected as possible with her family,” Giovanni tells Pvnew.
