She isn't embarrassed about the footage -- which features her naked and frolicking with an unidentified man.,Juicy Couture belts
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Is she worried what the other Housewives think?
"Then I just decided, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," said Staub. "What am I left to do? This isn't something I chose to have released, but it's out there, and there's nothing I can do about it."
"I haven't seen hers. I haven't seen mine, either,Tiffany, but ... if it's going to do anything, I would hope it does better," she said. See more celebrity news.
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Danielle Staub is speaking out for the first time about her newly surfaced sex tape.
She said she even hopes her tape outsells one made by fellow reality star Kendra Wilkinson.
She said she initially tried to prevent Hustler Inc. from selling it.
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"It was stolen," she told TMZ.com Thursday, contradicting Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jacqueline Laurita's claim that Staub, 47, leaked it herself.
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Said Staub, "I don't care what they say about me!"