'The Valley' Star Janet Caperna Reveals Secret Health Battle After Losing 20lbs in Less Than 2 Weeks

Janet Caperna is opening up about her health.

In a new interview, the 36-year-old The Valley star revealed a secret health battle after losing nearly 20lbs in less 12 days.

Janet told The Daily Mail that while celebrating the holidays with family and friends, she couldn’t stop vomiting and landed in the hospital twice. Initially, she thought she had food poisoning.

Keep reading to find out more…She then learned that she suffered from acute gastritis and colitis.

According to the Mayo Clinic, acute gastritis is caused by inflammation of the lining of the stomach while colitis is inflammation in the colon. Both are caused by infection.

It’s usually set off by something like food poisoning and it was just wreaking havoc on my body,” Janet explained. “It was like my insides were wrung out and it felt like I had hot glass moving through me.”

The serious illness left Janet feeling there was “no relief” from her suffering, adding, “If I had a baby sip of water I would throw up.”

Janet went on to say that she decided to publicly reveal the secret health battle to explain her appearance after losing so much weight so quickly.

“I look sick, so I can’t just start going about my normal life again and not say something, because if I post on Instagram people are gonna be like, ‘Are you okay?’” she explained. “I don’t want to glamorize looking like this because I look genuinely ill.”

As for what caused this, Janet admitted on her This Side of the Hill podcast that she overindulged in alcohol and other excesses over the holidays — including “a third of a cheese wheel on Thanksgiving.”

“The doctor basically said that my stomach and intestines were inflamed because I’d put something in there that wasn’t sitting well with my body,” she recalled.

Janet also took to Instagram to share clips of herself discussing the “serious health scare” that left her in “constant pain” and “unable to eat.”

“I’ve had a pretty rough go at it the last 2 weeks as I got super sick with what ended up being acute gastritis,” she wrote, noting that she will “probably will look pretty unhealthy for the next few months” as she attempts to gain the weight back.

“I am finally starting to feel so much better and am incredibly grateful for my family and friends that have checked in and been so supportive as I navigated this,” she added.

Janet‘s husband Jason Caperna took to the comments section to support his wife.

“I’ve watched how hard the last few weeks have been on you — the fear, the exhaustion, the setbacks — and I’m beyond proud of the strength you’ve shown through all of it,” he wrote. “You never stopped fighting. I love you so much. Bright days ahead.”

It was recently revealed that two Vanderpump Rules alums are joining the cast of The Valley for season 3.