Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jennifer Aydin opened up about the affair that almost ruined her marriage and why wives should continue to cheat on their husbands.
appearing in My friend, my soulmate, my podcast With Vicki Gunvalson, the 47-year-old told how her plastic surgeon husband Bill cheated on her with a pharmaceutical rep when she was pregnant with their fourth child.
“I experienced infidelity,” she said, explaining that Bill strayed after they had been married for about 10 years.
“He was feeling himself, he was making money and I was literally in the middle of it, pregnant with my fourth child and had three other children under the age of five,” she explained.
‘And I wasn’t paying attention, that’s true. “I was always tired, the kids always came first,” she continued.
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jennifer Aydin opened up about her husband Bill’s affair and why women should forgive a cheating husband.
Appearing on Vicki Gunvalson’s podcast, the 47-year-old told how her husband, plastic surgeon Bill, cheated on her when she was pregnant with their fourth child.
‘We take care of it. He didn’t want to give up, I didn’t want to give up. I thought, “Okay, just because he did something wrong… people make mistakes. This is the father of my children and I shouldn’t penalize him just for one mistake.”
“He treats me very well, he is very respectful,” he added.
Jennifer admitted she was “devastated” that the “fairytale” marriage she had envisioned for herself had broken down.
‘I married a Turkish boy from my community. I made everyone happy. We had 600 people at our wedding. I’m on my fourth child…and this is how you mess me up? she said.
“And then I woke up and said, ‘It’s time to be a big girl. “You have a family to think about.” He’s a good man, he’s a good person, a God-fearing man. He slipped up. Things happen,” he continued.
And listen, a pharmaceutical rep coming in and courting the doctor isn’t so out of place these days. You hear about it all the time, it is what it is. We deal with it.’
The couple not only resolved their problems, but they had a fifth child together: a son named Christian.
‘I married a Turkish boy from my community. I made everyone happy. We had 600 people at our wedding. I’m on my fourth child…and this is how you mess me up? she said
Jennifer admitted she was “devastated” that the “fairytale” marriage she had envisioned for herself had broken down.
After Jennifer shared her marriage problems on season 12 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, a fan reached out to her to congratulate her for supporting her cheating husband.
“It was basically a message that said, ‘I’m so happy you’ve forgiven your husband. “I cared too much what everyone thought and took too much pride in leaving a good man, and now I’m single and married and has the beautiful family I wasted.”
‘Sometimes things happen and you just have to evaluate them.
‘Don’t listen to anyone else. Do what works for you,’ he said.
Jennifer also highlighted that ‘the grass is not always greener’ when it comes to leaving a marriage.
‘Do you know what I’ve learned just by watching my friends? “Sometimes the grass is not always greener,” he said.
“And (you trade) one set of problems for another set of problems and when you get to your second guy you realize it’s not the person, it’s the process.”
He is a good man, a good person, a God-fearing man. He had a slip. ‘Things happen,’ he said, sharing his decision to stay by her side.
Jennifer shared her marriage problems on season 12 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Jennifer revealed that she confronted Bill about their affair the day before giving birth to their fourth child on an episode of RHONJ, which aired in 2022.
She told Teresa Giudice and Dolores Catania on camera that Bill’s affair happened 10 years earlier and that she was over it.
“I was pregnant,” Jennifer told them. ‘We had just moved to Jersey. He was my fourth child. He wasn’t around. He was working hard and really feeling himself for a while. I was making money.
They asked how she found out and Jennifer said through a credit card receipt.
“They went to a nightclub, VIP with bottle service,” Jennifer said. “That was my first red flag and then I saw a text message on his phone and I confronted him.”
Jennifer said Bill admitted it.
‘Do you know what I’ve learned just by watching my friends? “Sometimes the grass isn’t always greener,” he said.
In a confessional, Jennifer said she was nine months pregnant, a housewife with no income of her own, and was 10 days away from giving birth.
The reality star told them that she asked Bill if he wanted a divorce and he said no.
She said she asked him if he loved the other woman and he said no. She then asked him if the affair was over and he told her it had ended a while ago.
“I got angry and threw things at him,” Jennifer said. “Literally the next day I had Christian.”
She said in a confessional that once the baby was born she felt like she wanted it to work if he wanted it to work.
“And we never talked about it again,” Jennifer told Teresa and Dolores.