In a new interview, the real estate agent compares the Oppenheim Group office to a 'lion's den' as her co-workers and fellow co-stars on the Netflix show are 'pitted' against her.
- Dec 13, 2021
AceShowbiz - Joining "Selling Sunset" isn't always a happy experience for Christine Quinn. In a new interview, the real agent said that being on the Netflix show during her pregnancy made her have panic attacks.
"I was pregnant on top of dealing with postpartum depression … this season was really difficult for me," the TV star claimed to ET Canada on Friday, December 10. "I did the best that I could with the emotions that I was dealing with at the time and that I'm still dealing with now."
"They make fun of the fact of me being late in the show. It's because I was literally having panic attacks and I was worried about my pregnancy and something going wrong," Christine added. She also compared the Oppenheim Group office to a "lion's den."
Claiming that her co-workers were "pitted" against her, which was "really, really difficult" to deal with at the time," the 33-year-old said, "The problem that I was facing [was] everyone was saying, 'Oh, well, you know, she's so thin. She's so this. She's so that.' But inside, I was dealing with PTSD." She continued, "It was extremely hurtful considering the process that I went through."
She also slammed the Netflix show for falsely portraying her pregnancy journey. "I had my baby and then [it appeared] I was doing a yoga scene. But in real life, in that yoga scene, I was actually pregnant," she explained. "They edited me from, you know, the boobs up, so I got a lot of backlash on social media, [with people] saying, 'I can't believe you're doing yoga two weeks after giving birth after having an emergency C-section.' "
"I was laboring for some time and the complexity of it all when I got there. I couldn't do what I wanted to do, so that's when we had to make the decision," the luxury real estate agent continued. "It was definitely scary in my mind to think about having an operation, but it went great."
Further detailing her emergency C-section, Christine recalled, "He was coming out sideways, and his umbilical cord was wrapped around him. They said his heart rate's going down. All I hear is, 'Emergency C-section. Let's go, let's go!' "
As for her husband Christian Richard, she said, "[Christian] was absolutely freaking out. And then when we were doing the emergency C-section, my heart rate was going down, the baby's heart rate was going down," she said. "And then one of the nurses went up to Christian and said, 'You need to make a priority right now. You have to choose one.' He was like, 'Both. You need … Both.' "
