RHONY's Jenna Lyons Reveals She Had an Abortion at Age 21: 'It's a Really Hard Thing to Go Through'

The Real Housewives of New York stars Jenna Lyons and Erin Lichy open up about their pasts.

During the Tuesday, Nov. 26, episode of season 15, Lyons, 56, and Lichy, 37, spoke openly about having an abortion in early adulthood.

Towards the beginning of the episode, Lichy explained to the former director of J.Crew what she discovered in the conversation with Glamour how she started talking about abortion when she started college. The estate agent said it was the “hardest decision”.

As the episode continued, Lyons revealed that she had also miscarried. She explained that she was 21 years old. At the time, she had just moved to NYC to start a career in fashion and “had no money.”

“It’s really hard to go through,” Lyons said. The fashion executive shares her 17-year-old son Beckett with ex-husband Vincent Mazeau.

As the episode continued, Lichy recounted her experience Glamoursaying that he is “ashamed because [she] felt like it was [her] error.”

Lichy and her husband Abe have sons Levi (9), Elijah (4) and daughter Layla (7). At the beginning of November, they announced that they were expecting their fourth child.

(L-R) Ubah Hassan, Brynn Whitfield, Jessel Taank, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Sai De Silva.

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Lichy and Lyons are not the only ones RHONY stars revealed that they miscarried. Appearing in 2022 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenformer RHONY star Jill Zarin shared her experience.

Zarin’s revelation followed the Supreme Court’s overturning decision Roe v. Wade in June 2022. “I am horrified by what happened this week with Roe v. Wade. I myself had a miscarriage when I was in my late teens,” said Zarin, now 60 years old. “It was my choice and I don’t know how my life would be different today,” said Zarin.

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Zarin appeared in WWHL beside The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville, who also revealed that she had an abortion when she was a teenager, telling Zarina and Cohen that she was 17 at the time.

Glanville further elaborated on her story on Xu (formerly known as Twitter): “I’m not ashamed of my abortion and thank God I had a choice. I was 17 in high school, in an emotionally abusive relationship and on birth control pills and still I got pregnant myself, and I was still a child myself.”

Jenna Lyons.

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