Christine speaks about postpartum depression whilst filming ‘difficult’ Selling Sunset season

‘It was a lion’s den and these girls were pitted against me, it was really, really difficult’

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Selling Sunset star, Christine Quinn, has spoken about suffering from postpartum depression and PTSD whilst filming the most recent season of the Netflix show. Season four saw Christine in the ninth month of her pregnancy with her first child, she described her difficult child birth and we also saw the first few weeks of her time as a new mother.

In an interview since the season aired, she has said she has had some health problems since giving birth to her son, and noted filming the most recent season of the show was particularly difficult for her. She also claims the show was edited out of chronological order which meant she’s received backlash for her lifestyle around the time she gave birth and was pregnant.

Christine Quinn has opened up about postpartum depression and how difficult it was to film season four of Selling Sunset

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Speaking to ET Canada, she said: “I was pregnant on top of dealing with postpartum depression. This season was really difficult for me. 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 one of her confessional interviews on the show she said felt “misunderstood” and “constantly attacked” at the time, adding: “The problem that I was facing, 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.”

In the interview with ET, Christine says she was completely open with producers of the show, and at times was worried about how much she was working whilst heavily pregnant. “They make fun of the fact of me being late in the show. ‘Oh, Christine’s late. Oh, Christine’s late.’ 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,” she said. “It was a lion’s den and these girls were pitted against me. And it was really, really difficult.”

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Christine also said the way the show was edited “didn’t help” her situation, and instead said it was “hurtful” towards her. “It was extremely hurtful considering the process that I went through,” she said. And I know, you know, editing and chronological order on the show doesn’t really necessarily help because I had my baby and then I was doing a yoga scene. But in real life and that yoga scene, I was actually pregnant.

“They edited me from you know, the boobs up so I got a lot of backlash on social media saying, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing yoga two weeks after giving birth after having an emergency c-section. My process was not easy by any means and on TV, they make it look easy. But I was I was struggling in real life. I really was.”

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