Snooki: 'Jersey Shore' Complaints And Cash Concerns

Though she's one of the world's biggest reality TV stars, Snooki insists that her public image is more fictional projection than an actual reflection of her personality. So when you see her partying all day and night, drunk with her famous roommates and making memories by the half hour installment, just know that there's a different girl on the other end of that camera.

In a new interview with GQ -- what she calls her first "real" interview -- the pint sized reality star/WWE diva/pitchwoman teases a different side of Snooki, revealing the things that "Jersey Shore" doesn't put on air, and what she would show if she were in charge.

"I wouldn't show as much drinking and partying," she tells the magazine. "I would show more of us chilling out and having a good time -- which they don't show. We don't even drink those nights, but we laugh all night. They don't show anything but us drinking and hooking up."

But why?!

"I don't know. Maybe because of the success of the show they think that if they don't show us drinking and hooking up then it wouldn't stay successful, but I think that if they showed the sober side of us people would like it even more and it'd even change people's minds about us," she says.

Still, the show has offered her some financial opportunities that wouldn't come with a calm, happy show. She made $750,000 last year, according to The Daily Beast, and she's not being extravagant with her cash... unlike one of her co-stars.

"'Jersey Shore' is going to end soon. I'm not going to spend money like Mike [The Situation]. He's already broke!" she claims.

That'd be impressive spending on his part -- said Situation pulled in $2.5 million in 2010.

For more, click over to GQ.

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Comments

[coolgarfield]

12:43 AM on 11/11/2011

Yo Snooks, get a real job! Getting paid to drink and act like a FOOL is so 2010. get a regular gig at Mickey D.'s flipping burgers. Put on the hair net, the latex gloves and get to scrubbing those pots and pans too! Snooki aint all that that,never has been. In fact she is a HAS BEEN. PULEEZE! Get to stepping, Snooki!

[Pelican1983]

12:26 AM on 11/06/2011

Wth does Snooki know about the Situation's bank account?!

I'm thinking he didn't want to make a deposit.

[E V]

11:41 PM on 11/05/2011

Who woulda thought, in a room full of reality stars, Snooki's the smartest person in the room.

[Joan Reeves]

07:05 PM on 11/05/2011

"So when you see her partying all day and night, drunk with her famous roommates and making memories by the half hour installment, just know that there's a different girl on the other end of that camera."

She is EXACTLY what she chooses to project on that stupid show. Now is not the time for her to be worrying what people think. That ship has sailed, and she was the captain of it. Deal with it.

[StevieTheK]

05:36 PM on 11/05/2011

they should merge Jersey Shore with Top Shot.

[Saje3d]

01:01 AM on 11/05/2011

I may loathe the show and not give two shakes for anyone on it, but haven't people gone beyond slut-shaming yet? I remember an old joke. "A slut is someone who won't sleep with ME." Gawd forbid any woman claim ownership of her own sexuality without being condemned for it. Sad that this is still an issue on a site like this one.

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

09:43 PM on 11/04/2011

When is Snooki going to announce her candidacy as a republican family values candidate running for President?

[nypapajoe]

09:25 PM on 11/04/2011

These reality people are not faking their behavior they are that inappropriate and psychologically in need of so e serious therapy and most of all maturity!

[MarkNFL12345]

07:51 PM on 11/04/2011

No.

[rabit818]

06:29 PM on 11/04/2011

Snooki, Kim Kardashian, etc are famous for their whorish behavior and celebrated. "Making out" and "hooking up" sounds like a gym activity for these people. No class at all.

[ba bye repubes]

11:26 AM on 11/16/2011

snooki is famous caused she got punched in the face by a dude in season 1 america fell in love with her after that!! the rest is reality history

[OuterBanx North12]

05:26 PM on 11/04/2011

you can teach an ape to do tricks when the camera's on him, you apparently can't teach them to be smart with their money.

[bart4u]

02:36 PM on 11/04/2011

Wish these clowns and train wreaks were not on the HP pages. Man I can't wait for there 15 min to be up.

[OuterBanx North12]

05:29 PM on 11/04/2011

i know, who are these people who are watching this garbage and keeping them on TV? I figure one of 2 kinds of people: illiterates who don't get the joke, or those with self-esteem issues who need to watch the show to feel better about themselves.

[Blisa]

10:41 PM on 11/07/2011

The ratng would show that there are millions of so called "illiterates, humorless low self esteem" American who watch the show on a regulate basis. It is one of the most popular programs on MTV. Your assumption that people watch show to feel better about themselves could be part of the reason. It may also be nice escape from the daily routine... A time to relax and not take life too seriously. Programming is based on how much money is generated from the viewership and it sounds like they do a great job at making lots of cash. Watching Jersey Shore may not be your cup of tea and we as TV watchers have the freedom to watch whatever we want. If you don't like, don't watch it. Without a doubt what you think is garbage is the same way people judge your television habits.

[airforcevet43]

01:57 PM on 11/04/2011

the SITUATIONS' situation is a laughable SITUATION!

[Janet Root Wetherell]

01:38 PM on 11/04/2011

this show has been an absolute waste of tv time..watched a few minutes of it and just could not stand it anymore..nothing intelligent about it in the least and so inane, they must be panderin got the uneducated..sad bunch they are..

[Ordinary Citizen]

12:02 PM on 11/04/2011

I once watched about 10 minutes of this show. They were guest in Italy. What a horror! I found this twit rather whorish really down right nasty. I couldn't believe this was being shown on TV and celebrated as acceptable in any way.