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The star of Selling Sunset, Mary Bonnet He did not hold back when writing his memoirs.
The first book from the Netflix personality, Selling Sunshine: Surviving teenage motherhood, making it in luxury real estate, and finally finding my voicewas officially released on Tuesday, September 24. Bonnet wrote candidly about being a teenage mother, detailed the ups and downs of her love life and revealed her past of sexual assault in the memoir.
“I’ve always thought about doing it,” Bonnet, 44, told Us Weekly on why she decided to write the book. “I really think being open about these things and sharing my story about being a teenage mother, I think there are a lot of single mothers and young women who really feel like they have no hope. … There were so many days where I would just cry and [decía]“Why does it have to be so hard? But I just wouldn’t give up.”
The reality star added: “I wanted to give other people hope and make them realise that whatever situation they are in — whether it is domestic violence or sexual assault — there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”
Bonnet explained to Us that I wanted to “let the bad things that happened to me” become a guiding light for other people.
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Although Bonnet wrote about some dark moments in her memoir, the star of Selling Sunset She was also able to reflect on the good things — like meeting her husband. Romain Bonnet and become a superstar real estate agent.
Read on to see the biggest revelations from Bonnet’s book Selling Sunshine:
Getting pregnant at 15 and becoming a single mother
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Bonnet welcomed his son Austin Babbitt in March 1997, during her junior year of high school. She lived at her parents’ home in Indiana and “was home-schooled the last three months of my junior year and all of my senior year,” Bonnet wrote, going to school only for exams.
Although she and her ex-boyfriend Mike (all of Bonnet’s exes’ names were changed for the book) were together for a while, he eventually “stopped showing up altogether.”
Famous ex-boyfriends
Throughout the book, Bonnet wrote about relationships she has had over the years. One was with a married MLB player “who had been on the roster of the New York Yankees and several other major teams,” she wrote. Bonnet thought the unnamed athlete was getting divorced.
“The truth was revealed, and everything fell apart. I couldn’t attend one of his baseball games, so I watched it on TV from home,” he recalled. “I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when, a few innings later, the camera panned to the smiling faces of his wife and son.”
After he lied, Bonnet “refused to be the other woman” and moved to Los Angeles to “start over.” It was there that she became involved with Brad Fischetti of LFO.
Bonnet dated Fischetti “a few times” but things were “not serious at all” between them.
Idina Menzel’s shoes
The star of Selling Sunset Amanza Smith She quickly became friends with Bonnet in LA, and at the time, Smith was dating Taye Diggs. Before going out to dinner one night, Bonnet found herself borrowing from Diggs’ ex-wife’s closet, Idina Menzel.
“Idina had left a lot of things behind that she planned to donate to charity, and I didn’t have any nice shoes with me,” Bonnet wrote, recalling that Smith handed her “a pair of higher heels” — which ended up at a club.
His second marriage
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Bonnet married her second husband, whom she refers to as Drew, a year and a half after they met in 2008. After their wedding, things became “toxic,” but she kept taking him back.
“While Drew admitted, albeit rarely, that how he treated me was not okay, I don’t think he ever fully understood why what he was doing was wrong,” she wrote at one point. “He always found some justification for his actions, whether he had too much to drink or was stressed.”
After moving to London during their marriage, Drew cheated on Bonnet and applied for “multiple credit cards” in her name. “I had racked up massive debt, spending bills like we had money to burn,” she wrote, while revealing that she had filed for bankruptcy and moved away.
Fertility problems
The reality star detailed her fertility issues on Selling Sunset but they began years earlier. Bonnet wrote that during her marriage to Drew, she was pregnant with twins after a round of IVF.
“At around five weeks,” one of the babies “stopped developing.” However, there was a second baby girl who appeared healthy. After being pregnant for 11 weeks, Bonnet suffered a miscarriage, without Drew present.
His sexual assault
Bonnet detailed being drugged and raped during her first days in LA
“I suddenly realized my mind was getting cloudy and my eyelids were getting heavy,” she wrote, noting that she asked her attacker, named Joe, for water. She eventually passed out.
“When I woke up, I was in Joe’s bed, with my arms pinned against his mattress and my pants down to my ankles,” she wrote. “He was on top of me and inside me.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline al 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
‘Selling Sunset’ deja vu
Although he “never” regretted joining Selling SunsetBonnet wrote that she almost left the reality show after the drama in Season 6, (during a cast trip to Palm Springs, Chrishell Stause accused the castmate Nicole Young of using drugs).
Taking a pregnancy test on camera
The producers of Selling Sunset Bonnet was asked to wait a day to take a pregnancy test because they wanted to film it for the show.
“The next day, early in the morning, the crew arrived to film me taking the test,” she wrote. “With my heart racing, I walked into the bathroom and did what I had to do. Sure enough, after letting the allotted time pass, the word pregnant appeared, clear as day.”
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Bonnet eventually lost the pregnancy due to a septic abortion.
Being cyberbullied
Following the rise of her fame, Bonnet recalled being cyberstalked by hackers who “watched and listened to me for eight months straight,” she wrote.
“Thank God they didn’t do anything to hurt me, physically or publicly,” Bonnet wrote. “They just screwed me over in a major way. We still don’t know who it was, and we may never know.”
