Cristina Cuomo gets heat for maskless Hamptons yoga session

NY Post ^ | July 18, 2020 | 2:12pm | Melissa Klein

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It’s a stretch for Gov. Cuomo’s sister-in-law to follow the rules on social distancing and mask-wearing.

Cristina Cuomo, wife of the governor’s brother and CNN host Chris Cuomo, posted an Instagram video showing her doing a maskless yoga session just inches from a pal in the East Hamptons Jimmy Choo shoe store.

Both Cuomo and the friend, Erika Halweil, a yoga instructor, removed their masks within seconds of starting the nearly 70-minute workout Wednesday, conducted in front of shelves of pricey stilettos.

Not all viewers offered them namaste.

“Wear masks!” one commented.

“Can all gyms and studios open in NY or just yours?” asked another.

Gov. Cuomo, who regularly urges mask-wearing, including in a tweet Saturday, has refused to allow gyms to operate even when a region reaches the last phase of the state’s four-step reopening process.

Upper West Side gym Momentum Fitness commented on Instagram that Cristina Cuomo, who publishes a magazine called “The Purist,” should use her position as “as an influencer” to help.

“Your health and wellness magazine feeds off of the gym industry and we are all slowly suffocating to death. Please use your power and direct line to the Governor to advocate for small gyms or else we will not be able to support our families as well as help those in our communities. PLEASE HELP US!” the gym commented.

Manhattan pilates studio owner Tara Gordon wrote “If any of us had done that we’d have been fined and potentially lost our business.”

“You have a voice via @thepurist and a direct line to the only person making these decisions to keep us all closed indefinitely. We aren’t hating. We are asking for help,” Gordon wrote.

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Cuomo, 50, was diagnosed with COVID-19 in April about two weeks after her husband came down with the bug and quarantined himself in the family’s Southampton basement, where he continued to broadcast his show.

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Erika pivoted her biz to be all online during quarantine and we are grateful for her free offering designed to improve our mental and physical well being. Here is a Modified half primary with some fresh waves of good energy and our first fun girl time (at a distance) since before I got sick in early April. As we can’t do yoga in a studio yet, we practiced together at the new @jimmychoo store in East Hampton, alone in this serene space, eying the beautiful collection of shoes. Go see the new fall winter collection + shop w a 40% off sale and receive the special JC/Purist goody bag!

A post shared by Cristina Cuomo (@cristinacuomo) on Jul 15, 2020 at 8:48am PDT

[conservative98]

[petitfour]

She had it and is all better?

[GnuThere]

I guess if anybody in the Hamptons gets the Jimmy Choo Flu in the next week, she should be sued.

[Ouderkirk]

That’s a helluva rack on the right.

[glennaro]

Good point ... What mask?

[dp0622]

Lol

It’s the first thing I noticed but I didn’t want to seem shallow

[Dacula]

No ring on the left finger.

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That’s a helluva rack on the right.

[Ouderkirk]

I’m married, not dead. And, I can be that shallow because of it!!!. LOL

[LegendHasIt]

Despite both of them having Chris in their names, if it wasn’t for Hypocrisy, the Cuomos would have no Cris at all.

[Dacula]

Erika Halweil, a yoga instructor, removed their masks within seconds.

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Hey BooBoo, is Erika related to me, Yogi?

Suddenly, I am interested in this Yogi or Yoga thing.

[dp0622]

Dead. Married. They’ve always been synonymous to me :-)

Which is why I’ll die cold and alone :-)