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If you feel forced to be on lockdown, shielding yourself from the public — not to mention your resentful neighbors — a $35 million mansion in Bel Air is not really a bad place to be.

“Lori and Mossimo are being contemplative and spiritual right now,” a family friend of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli told The Post. “Lori goes out a little bit, but the paparazzi follow her everywhere. She’s like a hunted animal.”

Welcome to the glamorous couple’s new life post-March 12, when the FBI unveiled its “Varsity Blues” college-admissions scandal — which found the two, among many other wealthy parents, accused of buying their children’s way into elite schools.

Loughlin and Giannulli have pleaded not guilty to money laundering and conspiring to commit fraud after allegedly paying $500,000 to admissions consultant Rick Singer to falsely submit their daughters Olivia Jade, now 19, and Isabella, 20, as rowing recruits to the University of Southern California. The couple could both face up to 40 years in prison.

In April, a federal grand jury in Boston indicted Loughlin and Giannulli, along with 13 others. The two are due in court Tuesday for a status hearing.

The once-busy Loughlin has had time on her hands since being let go from her roles in “Fuller House” and Hallmark’s “When Calls the Heart” series, but she and her fashion-designer husband have been lying low. Loughlin has curtailed her usual yoga classes and Body by Simone workouts.

The one place she still shows up every week: The Church of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic house of worship in Beverly Hills.

“They feel a lot of support there,” said another pal.

But outside church, it’s a different matter.

“A lot of these people are ­socially prominent, give to charities, have done the right things wealthy people are supposed to do in this town. They’re scared they might get ostracized by association,” said a Bel Air insider of the couple’s friends and neighbors.

“They’re calling less, inviting less. Hanging back — for now. If [Giannulli and Loughlin] are not convicted, everything will go back to the way it was,” said the friend. “But if they are, well, they might want to move. It’s sort of Bel Air ‘Bonfire of the Vanities.’ ”

And it’s not just the couple who are being quietly snubbed. A Loughlin source added: “The [friends and neighbors] with kids in college or kids who’ll be applying to colleges next year, they’re afraid an association with Lori and Mossimo — even with Olivia and Bella — might make them appear ‘entitled.’ Which is something you don’t want to seem, even in Bel Air, at least, for this moment.”

Although there have been reports that Loughlin and her husband of 22 years are being pulled apart by the scandal, the family friend denies this.

“Mossimo and Lori are still very much in love,” she said. “It’s been trying for all of them, but they understand this is life and they got taken advantage of.”

Indeed, People quotes a source as saying that, while Loughlin is “remorseful,” she also “believes the allegations against her aren’t true . . . She honestly didn’t think what she was doing was any different than donating money for a library or athletic field. That’s . . . why she pleaded not guilty.”

According to insiders who spoke to The Post, the couple put the onus on scandal mastermind Singer and are planning a legal strategy claiming they had no idea their contributions were “bribes” to get their daughters accepted.

“They thought Rick Singer was legit, that they were helping people by giving him a charitable contribution,” said the family friend of Singer’s KWF Foundation, through which the money was allegedly laundered and which claimed to benefit underserved children. “He was lying, not them.”

A source familiar with the case said Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded not guilty before they fully understood the severity of the charges — and now realize taking a plea deal might have been better.

As for actress co-defendent Felicity Huffman — who has pleaded guilty to hiring a Singer employee to correct her daughter’s SAT answers — Loughlin is said to feel there’s no comparison.

“[Huffman] pleaded guilty because she arranged for her kid to cheat on a test. It’s a whole different case,” said the family friend. “Lori and Mossimo didn’t know what they were doing.”

While Huffman is set to be sentenced in September, and prosecutors have recommended she get four months, Loughlin and Giannulli will face trial, likely in early 2020.

Meanwhile, daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella — who appear with their mom, smiling but not too much, and wearing pristine white on the cover of the latest issue of People — are said to be understanding of what has happened.

“The daughters are not mad at [Loughlin and Giannulli],” said the family friend.

As for rumors that both girls were kicked out of the USC chapter of sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma, “It’s just not true,” the family friend said.

The chapter has said in a statement that Olivia Jade ”did not complete the membership process” and that Isabella “remains an active member.”

Nor have they been kicked out of USC, which referred The Post to Interim President Wanda M. Austin’s June statement: “We are continuing to work through a very thorough, deliberative process for each student case under review.”

An insider said that Olivia Jade, who boasts 1.4 million followers on Instagram and had paid sponsorships with Amazon and Sephora before the scandal, will not return to USC this fall. Instead, she plans to plow ahead in the footsteps of her father, whose namesake line was licensed to Target for more than a decade.

“He’s encouraging her to do a beauty line — makeup, hair, skin care. She wants to use her new broader fame to her advantage,” said a neighbor.

As for Isabella, the neighbor said she “wants to be an actress. She’s hoping the USC business won’t affect her in Hollywood. In fact, it could actually help with both of their careers. They are nationally famous now, much more than they were. They just need good advice.”

Olivia Jade has reunited with boyfriend Jackson Guthy after they broke up in May because he was having a hard time with all the press attention.

“Bella’s boyfriend did dump her after the scandal,” said the family friend. “It’s unfortunate, but she gets it.”

Many of Loughlin’s Hallmark co-stars lent support after her firing. “When someone’s your friend and something happens to them, you don’t stop being their friend,” said actor Paul Greene.

Her “Fuller House” co-star Candace Cameron Bure announced onstage at the Kids Choice Awards in late March, “We are family and we stand by each other and pray for each other, and we’ll always be there for each other.”

Per the family friend, Loughlin and Giannulli “hope they’re seen in a forgiving light” by others as well. “They are the victims here — the colleges are greedy. [The couple] feel horrible.”

But the innocence act is unlikely to save Loughlin’s career.

“No matter what happens, I don’t see Lori getting new gigs,” said a TV casting agent. “If Felicity Huffman could plead guilty and apologize, why can’t Lori? She can play the victim here — but nobody’s a good enough actress to make us believe that.”