'Southern Charm's Leva Bonaparte on Finale Fight With Craig Conover & Why She Unfollowed Co-Stars (Exclusive)
etonline.comexperience, Leva Bonaparte feels like the audience hasn't gotten a chance to really know her yet.«It's tricky,» she admits of reality TV, speaking with ET over video call. «I think the viewer hasn't gotten to know me too much personally, because year one was COVID, year two was new people.
Maybe next year it will be a little bit more of, like, 'Real Leva' and what's going on at home.»Season 8 saw the cast of balloon a bit, with new additions Taylor Ann Green, Venita Aspen, Olivia Flowers, Chleb Ravenell and Marcie Hobbs snagging screen time that ultimately left Leva's personal story on the cutting room floor. «I had a lot of moments with my sisters, where I was just trying to figure out how I wanted another kid, how do I do another kid, you know?» the mom of one shares. «I have so much on my business plate that I don't necessarily want to give up, but I also don't want a full-time nanny.
Like, I had a child so that I could raise him, so I could enjoy him, enjoy every little morsel of it.»The trailer teased this struggle, a conversation about Leva feeling as if she's «suffocating» never making it into an episode (though the finale remains to be seen). «Can we have another child?
Do we have another child? Can I carry the other child? You know, there was a lot of that,» she explains, «but I am also not a TV hog.
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