Welcome to “For the Record,” where Netflix stars set the record straight on the craziest rumors they’ve heard about themselves. For our inaugural column, Selling Sunset’s Christine Quinn spills the tea about rumors circling her recent pregnancy. 

Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn is more than just a larger-than-life presence — she’s also one of the Oppenheim Group’s star realtors. Known for her quick attitude and signature fashion sense, Quinn opens up in Season 4 about her tough pregnancy with “Baby C,” born in May 2021 via emergency C-section. Apparently, not everyone feels warm and fuzzy toward the show’s self-proclaimed villain — Quinn reveals during filming that she feels alienated from the other women in the group, though her pregnancy is a frequent topic of conversation. 

Rumors swirled around Quinn. She was accused of faking her pregnancy just after Season 4 premiered, based on scenes of her doing yoga, bending down and jumping on a bed. Quinn shut the allegations down with a now-deleted “K y’all are beyond fucking sick” on her Instagram story. She also directed people there on Twitter, saying, “For all yall still mad on pregnancy gate please go look at my IG stories. And apologize. This is seriously so hurtful.”

So what’s a villain to do? We sat down with Quinn so she could get to the bottom of those fake pregnancy rumors. 

When did you first hear the rumor that you faked your pregnancy?

It was around a week after the show had first launched, and I hadn't watched the show at this point. I was actually out of town, so I didn't really know where it was coming from. I start seeing all these tweets and DMs and all this crazy stuff about, “Well, if you have an emergency C-section, you're not gonna be doing yoga on your head two weeks later.” And I was like, “What are they talking about?” So I called some of my friends that had seen it, and I said, “OK, apparently I'm doing yoga after I gave birth. Can you explain this to me? Because in the yoga scene I was pregnant!” That was actually one of the first scenes that we had shot. 

My friend said, “Yeah, actually you gave birth in Episode 4, and then in Episode 5, when Davina comes back, you were doing yoga on your head. But the weird thing was they only showed you from the boobs up when you were doing yoga, and when you were doing inversions, they only showed you from behind. So they never saw your stomach.” And I was like, “Oh my gosh. So that's how this all started.” Other things can come up, and we'll have to follow that storyline, so you're not necessarily seeing the show in complete chronological order. 

How did you react?

I did my best over social media to show photos from that day where you can see I'm pregnant. And people were like, “No, it's not possible. You must have had a surrogate, this is all fake.” I was doing the best that I could to show pictures of me in the hospital, pictures of me with the baby, but people were still saying things like, “She's wearing a T-shirt. I work in a hospital, and when women go to have babies, they're changed into gowns.” Yes, and that is correct. However, when I walked into the hospital, I was already fully dilated, so I didn't have time to change into a gown. I didn't have time to do anything. My case was extremely rare. From the time I walked into the hospital to the time that the baby was born was 22 minutes. That's how quickly we had to act.

It was really interesting reading all the ways people think that I [faked] it, especially because I've posted so many videos when I was pregnant and working out, doing yoga all the time. You can see my ribs, you can see me breathing — you can see it’s not a prosthetic. People are like, “Yes, but she is the most talented makeup artist in the world.” I appreciate them giving me credit, but I mean, I can barely wake up sometimes in the morning before 11:30, let alone sit in a glam chair for more than an hour. So the [idea] that I was putting on a prosthetic stomach was just so silly, and it was just hurtful more than anything. 

I think the problem is women all compare themselves to each other when it comes to pregnancy. Pregnancy is a very, very different thing for every person. I didn't ever want to have an emergency C-section — that was the last thing on my list. It was hurtful as someone who went through such a traumatic thing. 

Do you think anything else contributed to these rumors? 

I think people really don't understand genetics. I've been the same [size] my whole entire life — since I was 18 until now, which is 33. I think because I was back to wearing skimpy dresses and wearing the things that I would normally wear, they're just like, “I don't understand. How does she look exactly the same?” I've gotten comments like, “When you’re in a bikini, why don't we see your C-section scar?” I'm like, “Because it's literally, like, an inch below my vagina lips. My swimsuit doesn't go that low. Why would I post my — excuse my foul language — vagina on Instagram to make you guys feel better?”

In society, it's just such a sad thing because it's like on top of us already having to deal with the really, really hard problems that we face — like we're not pretty enough, we're too pretty, we're not skinny enough, we're too skinny. But the fact of the matter is that me going back to work, me walking around are the things that made me feel better.

Do you think these rumors come with being a TV villain? 

There's always gonna be people that don't like you. For me, I do embrace being a villain, but there's different sides to me. And so when I'm called the villain, of course I like to camp it up and have fun with it. But there are times when people think they know me and will message me like, “Oh my gosh, I can't believe you said this.” I am really vulnerable and I'm really sensitive. 

What have you learned from this experience?

I was super hormonal on top of filming a show with ladies who just wanted to yell at me and fight me. I realized over the years filming Sunset that not everyone's going to see your story, even if the writing's on the wall and you are correct. There's always people that are gonna have something to say about it. So it really comes down to me finding self-love and realizing [that there are] people around me [who] are there and supportive. There's a lot of things that you could be accused of as a woman — denying plastic surgery, having an affair — there's the whole gamut of it. But when you're a mother, and it's something that's so beautiful, so delicate and so rare for some people, and the fact that they were taking my happiness away — which is what it felt like at the time — that was the hardest part for me.

So many people will say, ‘Oh my gosh, she's such a bitch,’ and I'm really not. I have fun with life. I don't take things seriously. Do I make witty jokes here and there? Absolutely. But Maya [Vander] is just the same, she just gets away with it because she has an accent! But with the good comes the bad, so although there are haters out there, I know there's even more people that love and support me. 

This interview was edited for length and clarity.