Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Bonnet reveals the details of her sexual assault and teenage pregnancy in her new memoir.
The reality TV star, 44, hopes that by laying bare the difficulties she’s gone through she will convey to others that ‘there is a light at the end of the tunnel.’
Selling Sunshine: Surviving Teenage Motherhood, Thriving in Luxury Real Estate, and Finally Finding My Voice, hits bookstore shelves on September 24.
‘There were so many days where I would just cry and say, “Why does it have to be this hard?” But I just wouldn’t give up,’ she told Us Weekly, adding, ‘I wanted to give other people hope.’
In the book, Mary also writes about her recent fertility struggles after suffering a miscarriage last year, saying that she wants ‘the bad that happened to me to help other people.’
Selling Sunset ‘s Mary Fitzgerald Bonnet reveals the details of her sexual assault and teenage pregnancy in her new memoir
And while she got very candid in her memoir, there were some things she left out.
‘There were a couple of things I left out that really impacted me,’ because she didn’t want to ‘hurt or embarrass anybody I love’ – particularly her son Austin, 27.
Mary got pregnant at 15 and writes about how she was shunned by people in the Indiana town she grew up in.
‘Things happen for a reason,’ she said.
‘Every place I went, I was a baby with a baby, and I was judged. It was really hurtful [but] because of that, I’m able to deal with the criticism we get on the show. I didn’t know at the time that that was setting me up and thickening my skin.’
The real estate agent also divulges that shortly after moving to Los Angeles she was drugged and raped by a man she refers to as ‘Joe.’
‘I still am affected by it,’ Bonnet admitted. ‘It’s something that will probably never 100 percent go away.’
She said that one of the ways it still affects her is that sometimes when her husband Romain Bonnet, 29, touches her she flinches.
‘I don’t know if that will ever change, but I think I’m dealing with it very well by sharing the story,’ Mary told the outlet.
‘The hardest part was that I blocked a lot of it out [for] survival, so I had to go back, actually relive it, talk about it and try to remember how I felt,’ she explained.
The reality TV star, 44, hopes that by laying bare the difficulties she’s gone through she will convey to others that ‘There is a light at the end of the tunnel.’ Seen here in 2023
Selling Sunshine: Surviving Teenage Motherhood, Thriving in Luxury Real Estate, and Finally Finding My Voice, hits bookstore shelves on September 24; seen with her son
‘There were so many days where I would just cry and say, ‘Why does it have to be this hard?’ But I just wouldn’t give up,’ she told Us Weekly, adding, ‘ I wanted to give other people hope. Pictured here with husband Romain Bonnet in 2022
In the book, Mary also writes about her recent fertility struggles after suffering a miscarriage last year, saying that she wants ‘the bad that happened to me to help other people’
As Selling Sunset fans know, Mary and Romain have been trying to have a baby and have dealt with a miscarriage and several rounds of IVF along the way.
When it comes down to the message she hopes fans get from her book she said she hopes they know to ‘keep moving forward.’
‘Whatever it is that you’re going through, you’ll get through it, just like everything else in your life. Just keep believing in yourself because I never believed that I would be where I am now either,’ she said.
‘Stay positive. Pick yourself back up and be happy. Appreciate all the good things — because they will come.’
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