She is often portrayed as the villain of the show.
And more often than not, this is a role Selling Sunset's Christine Quinn doesn't mind playing at all.
However, the Netflix star recently opened up about the struggles she faced while filming season 4 of the hit Netflix show. The latest installment of the show sees Quinn navigating the last weeks of pregnancy, an emergency C-section delivery, and her return to work after what can only be called a very brief maternity leave.
Speaking to
ET Canada, the mum-of-one admits she suffered from postnatal depression during the latest rounds of filming.
“I was pregnant on top of dealing with postpartum depression…this season was really difficult for me,” Quinn explained.
“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.”
In season 4 we see Quinn transition from fashionable pregnant career girl to new mum utterly seamlessly, but the 33-year-old says that's not the real story about what was happening behind the scenes in her real life.
"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 you know, I was dealing with PTSD,” Quinn explains – and reveals she felt "misunderstood" and "constantly attacked" while filming the show, while having her postpartum emotions also taking a toll on her mental health at the same time.
In previous interviews, Quinn has revealed more details about baby Christina's traumatic birth.
With her water breaking while in the middle of filming the show, Quinn was rushed to the hospital when she was already dilated to nine centimeters. Revealing how she was hyperventilating from the pain and rushed into an emergency C-section because her heart rate was "plummeting," the new mum says the birth was made even more dramatic as her baby boy had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck.
“They make fun of the fact of me being late in the show. ‘Oh, Christine’s late. Oh, Christine’s late,'" Quinn says about filming season 4, describing her own struggles during the show.
"And it’s because I was literally having panic attacks and I was worried about my pregnancy and something going wrong because every time I was working, I was walking into work,” says Quinn. “It was a lion’s den and these girls were pitted against me. And it was really, really difficult.”
