Heather Rae El Moussa was the next woman to join. When she decided to join, there were just three people at the firm, including his brother Brett Oppenheim. So one day he actually approached me, and said, ‘Hey, do you want to come work at my brokerage? I just opened it.'” “He had just opened the office at Sunset Plaza. She met the group’s founder, Jason Oppenheim, through mutual friends after knocking on people’s doors in the Hills looking for homes to sell. Six years ago, Vander joined the “Selling Sunset” brokerage, the Oppenheim Group, as the firm’s first female agent. Everything happens for a reason.” Vander says she is unsure about continuing to appear on the show following the tragic loss of her baby. “I was heartbroken and it was around the time I got my real estate license. “I followed him for love, and it didn’t work out,” Vander told The Post. And the market in Miami is great.”īefore she built her empire, Vander moved to the US from Israel when she was just 20 years old, following an American guy she had met while traveling. “My business in Miami is really doing well. “I want to show people how they can get into the business and inspire people to follow their dream,” Vander said. She started her own firm, Maya Vander Group, and has launched a real estate course. In the meantime, she’s setting her sights on her career. “I hope that me sharing my very personal experience with stillbirth helped other women just knowing they are not alone,” she said. Vander, who hopes to get pregnant again in the new year, has also been open about the experience of losing her son. “Life is great, but unfortunately, not always perfect - not always fair.” “We go every Friday to the cemetery to visit our son,” she said. As they await the autopsy results, they’re processing their grief in therapy. Vander found out about the stillbirth on Dec. The family still doesn’t know why their son Mason didn’t make it. Vander announced on Instagram in December that she had a stillbirth at 38 weeks pregnant. “That being said, it’s been difficult to still process and seek answers.” “I know I have no choice but back to work and my old routine,” Vander said. The blank slate will be something of a distraction from the trauma she still deals with every day, the 39-year-old told The Post. I kind of got away with it for Season 4 and 5, but it’s been tough, too,” Vander explained. “Just because of the logistics, going back and forth, and my kids. And with her new independent brokerage getting off the ground, she’s prioritizing her life in the Sunshine State over the dramatic reality show. But after the year she’s had, Vander told The Post she’s not sure if she has it in her for another season.įamily is more important than ever before for Vander, whose husband and two children live in Miami, far from the hustle of the show’s LA market. The show, which just filmed its fifth season, features Vander and her real estate broker castmates, Christine Quinn, Chrishell Stause, Mary Fitzgerald, Davina Potratz and Heather Rae El Moussa. The powerhouse real estate agent turned reality star from the Netflix series “Selling Sunset” is in the midst of a major life recalibration after the tragic loss of her third child, a stillborn. Maya Vander has nowhere to go but forward. Inside ‘Selling Sunset’ star Jason Oppenheim’s $8M luxe LA home Jason Oppenheim talks ‘Selling Sunset,’ breakup & favorite products Harry Styles’ LA home he sold before landing Olivia Wilde film asks $8M I really feel like she's my miracle baby.Netflix’s ‘Selling the OC’ star Gio Helou lists family home for $15.8M When it comes to her bond with Emma, Vander said, "It's just nice to cuddle with her while she's so little. More than 3.7 million are born each year.įollowing Vander's pregnancy loss with her son, whom she names Mason, the realtor said she "wanted to get pregnant as soon as I can." are stillborn every year, according to 2014 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maya Vander of 'Selling Sunset' talks loss of her son: 'I wish I could just protect him'Ībout 24,000 babies in the U.S. "I was pregnant technically seven times between miscarriages and unfortunately the stillbirth, which is really the next level of a loss, and I have three kids to show for it," Vander added. The Netflix alum added that she was "a little more cautious and worried" during her pregnancy with Emma "because I learned that you can lose a baby, no matter how far along you are, even if things are going the way they should be." "Selling Sunset" alum Maya Vander delivered a stillbirth in Dec.
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