Anna Delvey Said Prison Weight Gain Is ‘Embarrassing’

Anna Delvey — the fake heiress whose story was told in the Netflix hit Inventing Anna — said it’s “embarrassing” how much weight she gained in prison.

“The food is just the worst,” Delvey, 34, told Page Six about her 18-month stint in prison. “I looked really, really bad when I came out of jail. I think I was at my heaviest … and I was, like, really [self-]conscious. It’s so embarrassing.”

“I was eating, like, Cheez-Its and Diet Coke from the vending machine,” the convicted con artist told the outlet. “I don’t eat meat, but you probably don’t want to eat meat that they’re serving in jail anyway.” 

“And then when I came out,” she said, “I needed to eat everything that I was missing.”

Delvey told the outlet she’s lost 40 lbs. since coming out of prison. She walks four miles a day around New York City, as she says the range on her ankle monitor has been increased to 75 miles. Although she says she tried Ozempic, “It just made me very depressed. It made me feel like it sucked the life out of me.”

Delvey ticked off a long series of beauty treatments — from cupping to laser therapy to the infamous “vampire” facial — that she credited with her new appearance, saying she’s still living off the income from her stint on Dancing with the Stars. 

Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, gained notoriety for posing as a German heiress and used her social standing to swindle and defraud wealthy people, banks and hotels. She was arrested in 2017 and convicted of grand larceny in the first, second, and third degrees as well as theft of services in 2019.

Her sentence included four to 12 years in prison — which was cut short when she was released in February 2021 for good behavior. Shortly after her release, Delvey was taken into custody by ICE for violating the terms of her visa. She has been living under house arrest in New York City while fighting her deportation case, but wears an ankle monitor.

She told the outlet that she has to check in with ICE once a month, but said, “I don’t mind it because I’m not doing anything against the rules.” 

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