RHOM New Castmate Stephanie Shojaee Explains Why She Didn’t Want Children: ‘I Wanted to Be Filthy Rich’

The newest Real Housewives of Miami star is sharing where her priorities lie.

On the Wednesday, July 2 episode of the Bravo series, fans of the franchise were introduced to new Housewife Stephanie Shojaee, who quickly opened up about her childhood, marriage and career. 

The Miami native, a friend of Larsa Pippen, met a few of the women over drinks, including Larsa, Julia Lemigova and Marysol Patton. Prior to the meet up, Larsa told Julia that Stephanie doesn’t like kids, noting that she often jokes, “Birkins and boogers don’t go together.”

Despite the warning, Stephanie, 40, immediately asked Julia, 53, about her recent journey with adopting two young boys. Julia shared how she’s loving the experience, but jokingly confessed she hasn’t been loving the diaper part, leaving Stephanie with a look of terror.

The episode then cut to Stephanie, a real estate developer, walking around her office as she declared in a voiceover, “I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be filthy rich.”

The president of the Shoma Group real estate developer, then revealed in her confessional, “I’m sleeping and I [wake up] and go like, ‘We gotta make money.’”

She admitted that she did once consider the idea of becoming a mother, saying, “Along the way, I did have moments where I thought, ‘Hey maybe you will want kids, maybe you should freeze your eggs.’ And then I looked at my calendar and I don’t even have time to go to the doctor to freeze my eggs. I don’t really have time to go pee.”

Stephanie, who works with her husband, Masoud Shojaee, CEO of Shoma Group, continued in her confessional: “I’m not where I am because I married Masoud Shojaee. Yes, maybe I got a little bit of help, but everybody in life gets a little bit of help.”

Elsewhere in the episode, she recalled how she met her husband at a Miami Heat game nearly 15 years ago when she was 26 years old and Masoud was 50.

“Age difference was a really big deal for me,” she explained. “I did not want to be seen with an older gentleman because of the misconception of people thinking that you are with an older guy, you are probably a gold digger. And then I met Masoud and everything changed.”

Stephanie previously revealed during a 2022 episode of Uncut and Uncensored with Caroline Stanbury that she first “chickened out” hours before she and Masoud were supposed to go out on their first date because he is “way older” than her.

A year after she canceled on Masoud multiple times, the pair’s paths crossed again at another basketball game. “​​My mom told me to just give it a shot,” she recalled on the podcast.

Masoud ended up picking her up two hours late for their dinner. “Had I not paid for my hair and makeup, I probably would have not gone,” she admitted, noting they have “been together since that day.”

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The Real Housewives of Miami airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, and is available to stream on Peacock the next day.