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        <title><![CDATA[‘RHONJ’ star Jennifer Aydin donates 5,000 masks to hospitals]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After recovering from coronavirus, &#8220;<strong>Real Housewives of New Jersey</strong>&#8221; star <strong>Jennifer Aydin</strong> is using her platform to give back by donating over 5,000 masks to hospitals in New Jersey and New York.</p><p>&#8220;When I had the coronavirus, I noticed that my masks were really flimsy at the time,&#8221; Aydin, 43, told Page Six on Thursday. &#8220;Everyone was asking how I had contracted it or whatever and I was like, &#8216;I was just at the grocery store. That&#8217;s the only place that I went to.&#8217;&#8221;</p><p>After her recovery, she asked her husband, a plastic surgeon, to get her an N95 mask, to which he replied that there were none available.</p><p>&#8220;I figured if me, as a doctor&#8217;s wife, was having difficulty getting these masks, what about the average Joe?&#8221; she said.</p><p>Aydin went to work trying to secure masks, purchasing 10,000 from the same manufacturer who makes her <strong>Ultimate Beauty Pillow</strong> in the hopes of protecting and supporting her community. However, she didn&#8217;t tell anyone of her plans.</p><p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to jinx it until the shipment was able to come through,&#8221; she said. Once she had the masks, she reached out to the Governor&#8217;s office to find out which New Jersey facilities needed them the most, and ended up sending 3,000 to the Bergen New Bridge Center in Paramus.</p><p>Aydin admitted that when the masks arrived, she first contacted her family, friends and “RHONJ” cast members, just in case they needed masks. In doing so, a producer from the show put her in touch with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and she was able to donate an additional 2,000 masks to the facility.</p><figure id="attachment_5245470"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/gettyimages-1223102841.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/gettyimages-1223102841.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/gettyimages-1223102841.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Dr. Bill Aydin, Jennifer Aydin and Dr. Natalie Stevens visit Lenox Hill Hospital to donate PPE to medical and essential workers on May 5, 2020.</span><span class="credit">GC Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve also donated a thousand masks to just miscellaneous people who have DM&#8217;d me and asked me and been begging me,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So every time I get a new request that I happen to see, if I&#8217;m able to, I just put some masks in an envelope and I go to the post office or have my assistant go by the post office and just ship them out.&#8221;</p><p>She is also keeping some of the masks on-hand for all of her husband&#8217;s patients at the Aydin Center for Plastic Surgery.</p><p>&#8220;He is planning to re-open once the quarantine and the stay-at-home thing is lifted,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We have patients calling. People want their Botox and their injectables!&#8221;</p><p>Aydin <strong>tested positive</strong> for coronavirus in April after suffering from massive headaches, among other symptoms, and revealed that her daughter and father, who had to be hospitalized for a few days, also contracted the deadly illness. Luckily, everyone is on the mend now.</p><p>&#8220;I feel great,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I feel as good as new. Really. Like so happy and grateful that I didn&#8217;t get it as worse as other people have because it was a little scary for a minute.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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