EXCLUSIVE: Jessel wants another baby in ‘RHONY’ 1st look — and her husband’s reaction is not great
Jessel Taank and Pavit Randhawa have a tense conversation about growing their family in the upcoming episode of “The Real Housewives of New York City.”
In an exclusive clip from the Nov. 5 episode, Jessel raises the possibility of welcoming Baby No. 3 during a dinner date with Pavit.
“I think that the decision to have another baby is not just one person —” Jessel begins.
“Well, the decision is already made,” Pavit says. “There’s no baby.”
Jessel and Pavit welcomed twin boys, Kai and Rio, in May 2021.
Jessel has spoken in the past about her desire to expand their family, though she has said previously that Pavit wasn’t on board.
“I really have to work on him. He’s so against it,” she told Andy Cohen during the “RHONY” Season 14 reunion in October 2023. “I think that we’re right now just trying to find our footing. There’s a lot going on.”
In the new clip from the upcoming episode, Jessel tells her husband she feels they would be “making a big mistake” if they didn’t have a third child.
“Why is it a big mistake?” Pavit says, before turning his attention back to the food, saying, “I really love these noodles, by the way.”
“I think it would be a big mistake because we have the embryo,” she says. “A lot of people who want to have a girl and do it naturally, they can’t guarantee that.”
Jessel has opened up before about her and Pavit’s experiences with in vitro fertilization to conceive their twins, and she says they still have multiple frozen embryos that would enable them to try for another baby.
She recently revealed she and Pavit were moving their embryos from Los Angeles, where they used to live, to New York City.
“We’re in the process of transporting my babies on ice from Rodeo Drive to New York — maybe Park Avenue — so they’re going from one shi-shi place to another shi-shi place,” Jessel said on Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast on Oct. 2.
“That’s step one, and step two is actually doing something with them,” she said. “We’re in the sort of weeds of figuring it all out.”
In the sneak peek from the upcoming “RHONY” episode, Jessel shares her frustration with her husband about the way they communicate as a couple.
“I’m about to lose my s—. I think we should probably see a professional therapist to help us figure this out,” she says. “I think that you and I and our communication could use a little work.”
“Especially you,” Pavit replies, to which Jessel retorts, “Especially you.”
“How many times have I told you something and then you ask me a question and I say, ‘I told you that five minutes ago.’ And you’re just like, ‘Oh, I wasn’t listening to you,’” Pavit continues.
“Well, sometimes I block you out,” Jessel answers.
“Exactly,” Pavit says.
The next episode of “The Real Housewives of New York City” premieres Nov. 5 at 9 p.m ET on Bravo and streams the following day on Peacock.
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