My New Motto: God, Family Love!

Party's over! The Jersey Shore star reflects on how much better life is as a sober husband and dad

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino has come a long way since his hardpartying days on Jersey Shore. Over the past eight years, the 41-year-old reality star has become a bona fide family man (he and his wife of five years, Lauren, 39, share Romeo, 2, and Mia Bella, 1, and are expecting a baby girl in March), and is dedicated to helping others get on the straight-and-narrow. He’s even changed his mantra from GTL (“Gym, tan, laundry”) to GFL (“God, family, love”). “God has definitely spared my life a few times,” says Mike, who spent eight months in prison for tax evasion in 2019 and released his memoir, Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation — How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison, in December. “So today I use my platform to spread positivity.” Here, he talks to In Touch’s Amanda Champagne-Meadows about his new true-crime show, Statute of Limitations, his growing family and his prison feat.