When Mary Bonnet returned from a visit to Bali with husband Romain Bonnet, she had a “robust hunch” that she was pregnant — however she claims in her new memoir, Selling Sunshine, that she needed to wait to seek out out.
The Selling Sunset star, actual property agent and vp of Oppenheim Group, 44, writes in her ebook (out Sept. 24) that she realized her interval was late after the couple took a belated honeymoon in 2022.
She shared her suspicion with the Netflix docusoap’s manufacturing workforce, who already knew the couple had been attempting to conceive.
“Naturally, they needed to seize the complete factor on digicam, so that they requested me to attend to take the being pregnant check till they may very well be there,” she writes.
Mary recollects responding, “Nicely, then that you must come over now, as a result of I’m going to do it.” She says she was instructed they had been in the midst of filming different scenes and must wait.
“I used to be like, ‘Are you kidding?’” she writes, remembering her response. “You’re going to delay us discovering out whether or not or not we’re having a child?! Can’t we simply re-create the scene?”
She says they requested her to attend to take the check till the subsequent morning, and it wasn’t till the crew confirmed up that she realized she was certainly pregnant.
Netflix declined to touch upon the incident.
“Along with my absolute astonishment, I all of a sudden grew to become conscious that I had cameras on me, recording my response, which made me hyper-focused on what I used to be saying and doing,” she writes.
The second appeared within the premiere episode of Promoting Sundown’s seventh season. Three episodes later, the present documented Mary revealing the information to the remainder of the forged.
Mary writes that the scene was shot the identical week she realized she was pregnant — and he or she determined to inform the opposite brokers when she noticed them spray portray their initials the place they needed their desks to be, and knew she wanted to keep away from the cruel fumes.
She tells PEOPLE the circumstance prompted her to share the private information together with her castmates earlier than deliberate.
“Everybody says to attend till you are within the protected zone,” she says. “I used to be so excited and I used to be round my pals and I did not actually suppose that by means of sufficient as a result of there was spray paint round. I used to be like, “Oh, I am unable to be round this.”
9 weeks later, Mary suffered a miscarriage, which she and Romain realized of throughout a scheduled ultrasound appointment.
She writes that that they had been set to movie a scene at dwelling by which they confirmed the ultrasound footage proper after the appointment.
She recollects Romain calling Promoting Sundown’s producers with the heartbreaking information and telling them, “You aren’t coming. We have to grieve alone.”
Nevertheless, she says the producers needed the couple’s “feelings to be contemporary” once they mentioned the loss, providing to maintain the crew small and have solely her shut pal Amanza Smith within the scene with the couple.
“In some way, by the grace of God, we obtained by means of it,” she writes of filming the scene from season 7’s sixth episode. “I sat there, talking in a robotic tone, completely numb, whereas Romain did every little thing he might to defend me from any extra ache.”
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Mary and Romain entered right into a civil union in 2018, and celebrated their nuptials with a marriage ceremony the next yr. Mary has one son named Austin, whom she welcomed in 1997. He is now 27.
She additionally opens up about teen motherhood in Promoting Sunshine, sharing what it was prefer to grow to be pregnant at age 15.
Mary tells PEOPLE the method of writing her deeply private ebook was “very troublesome.”
“I needed to actually put myself again in conditions that I by no means wish to be again in once more and actually give it some thought to explain the conditions correctly,” she says. “I needed to discuss to my therapist fairly a bit to verify I used to be dealing with it okay.”
Selling Sunshine is accessible now.