“Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard” star Jasmine Ellis Cooper kept her pregnancy hidden when cameras went up for Season 2 of the Bravo reality series last summer.
Speaking exclusively with ’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast, the new mom — who welcomed son Silas “Si” Jr. with husband Silas Cooper in February — reveals that she initially concealed her exciting baby news because of lingering conflict with the majority of her castmates.
“OK, so don’t make me cry — but yes, it was different,” says Jasmine, who shot the show’s sophomore installment without her army officer spouse since he had been deployed in Eastern Europe during filming.
“I think because I knew a lot was going on amongst the friendships, I was like, ‘This has to be handled first and I have to feel comfortable in this house and exercise my agency before I share this huge moment,’” the reality star, 32, says. “It was priorities.”
Although rosé is known to flow when the “SHMV” crew congregates in Massachusetts’ luxe seaside enclave, Jasmine stuck to mocktails — which signaled to co-star and good pal Bria Fleming that the budding screenwriter had a bun in the oven.
“During filming, I felt like she was [expecting] and I think I said it at the dinner table. I was like, ‘I thought she was pregnant,’” recounts the fashion entrepreneur, whose friendship with Jasmine only strengthened in the time off from filming.
Although Fleming is close with Jasmine, she did not get a heads-up about her pregnancy — which was eventually revealed to the entire group during production.
“And it’s so funny … because at [my boyfriend] Simon [Marco]’s birthday, I’m ordering spicy margaritas but she’s ordering the virgin version of that. And I’m like, ‘No, you were drinking with me!’ And she’s like, ‘No, I wasn’t,’” Fleming says, recalling her reaction to Jasmine’s…
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