Teresa Giudice will be serving a 15-month prison sentence for fraud at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut beginning January 5.

As her prison date approaches, the RHONJ star is reportedly worried about what’s going to happen to her family while she’s away.

“Teresa’s panicking,” a family friend of Teresa Giudice told Us Weekly.

The source added, “She’s worried about her parents dying, her husband cheating and leaving her girls.”

Teresa Giudice’s experience in prison may not be what she’s expecting, as she “will have to prove herself,” and adjust being told “when she can eat, take a shower, go to bed, and get up,” according to HollywoodLife.

“[Teresa] won’t realize how much she needs her freedom until it’s gone. Whatever she thinks, it will actually be 100-times worse,” the source close to Teresa Giudice added.

Maybe it’s due to her rumored fears that her husband Joe Giudice might cheat on her while she’s serving her time, but it has been reported that the mother-of-four is looking for someone to take on the task of taking care of her daughters, 13-year-old Gia, 10-year-old Gabriella, 8-year-old Milania and 5-year-old Audriana, according to The Inquisitr.

“She knows Joe doesn’t want to take care of them, and she doesn’t think he’s capable. Teresa has become so desperate, she’s not considering giving her kids to friends,” a source told Radar Online.

Gia, who is currently part of the girl group 3KT, is reportedly already looking to live with one of her friends from the group while her mother is away.

“She knows her family needs her, but she also realizes that she needs a mother figure while her mom is locked away. She’s at the age where she really needs a mother in her life to help her through the changes of going from a girl into a young woman, and it’s not like she’ll be able to pick up a phone and dial her mom at a moment’s notice,” explained the insider.