After sharing her miscarriage on Selling Sunset season seven, Mary Bonnet—who just released her book Selling Sunshine—spoke with E! about where she and husband Romain are on their fertility journey.
Mary Bonnet isn’t sure what the next chapter will be in her fertility journey.
However, the Selling Sunset star—who released her first book Selling Sunshine with Harper Collins Sept. 24—knows she and husband of six years Romain Bonnet are on the same page about figuring it out together.
“We don’t know what the outcome is going to be,” Mary told E! News in an exclusive interview. “We’re just kind of taking it as it as it comes. I’ve been super busy right now with the book and with the season and everything. So, I know nothing’s going to happen if I’m stressed out and if I’m running around.”
The 44-year-old also noted she would need to undergo a procedure.
Having detailed in her book that she was diagnosed with a septate uterus (when the uterus is divided into two parts by a membrane), “I have to have surgery,” she continued, “and so I have to get that done and then have time for healing and then start the whole process. So, I just need time to do that.”
For now, Mary is taking the time she needs to figure out what’s best for her and Romain.
“We’re trying to decide,” she added. “It just takes a lot of time, and we just don’t know what’s going to happen because I’m 44. The other times we tried to freeze embryos it wasn’t successful. So we’re weighing our options.”
Jerod Harris/Getty Images for NetflixAnd as Mary and Romain navigate their future, they know they can count on the love and support of Austin
“We have our fur baby though, Thor. Romaine is obsessed with him,” added the real estate agent, who said goodbye to dog Niko on the most recent season of Selling Sunset and also shares dog Zelda with ex Jason Oppenheim. “So if it doesn’t happen, he says he’s OK. He’s got his little fur baby, and he is just beyond obsessed. We’ll be OK. What’s meant to be will be.”
As Mary pens in her book, she decided to do embryo freezing in between filming seasons five and six of Selling Sunset in 2022.
“We started with 15 eggs, which is a lot, and 10 of them were the right size,” she wrote in Selling Sunshine. “Seven of those 10 were mature enough to be fertilized, and three of those seven made it through fertilization. Those three were then sent to the genetics lab to be tested and analyzed. Unfortunately, a few days later, in a very disappointing turn of events, we found out that the three eggs that had survived most of the process were abnormal. The doctor informed us that I’d need to give my body a few months to recover, and then, if we wanted, we could go through it all again.”
A few months later, Mary continued, she and Romain decided to try to conceive “the old-fashioned way” during a trip to Bali that holiday season.
“Miraculously, or it so it seemed,” she added, “two weeks after we returned from Bali, I found out that I was pregnant.”
The moment Mary and Romain first saw the positive pregnancy test in early 2023 was captured on season seven of Selling Sunset—with the show also documenting the moment they shared the news with the rest of the cast. But later that season, she suffered a pregnancy loss—eventually revealing she had a septic miscarriage and had to undergo surgery.
Mary—who details other aspects about her health in the book, including being diagnosed with a ruptured breast implant, IBS and ADHD—revealed she chose to talk about her experiences to help others feel less alone.
“When it came to my ADHD and IBS and all the things that I have opened up about, there’s just this tremendous amount of support where people are like, ‘Oh my God, thank you for talking about this.’ And it helps them,” she told E!. “And so especially when I started talking about my fertility issues, I had so many people come up to me in the streets, on social media—even men would come up and they’re like, ‘I can’t thank you enough.’ Because their wives are going through it, they don’t know what to do. But watching it has helped their wives feel better and get out of the depression and feel like they’re not alone and they’re able to talk about it. And so hearing all of that, it just makes it worthwhile.”
