Everything Chrishell Stause and Jason Oppenheim Said About Having Kids, Their Future on ‘Selling Sunset’ Season 5

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Everything Chrishell Stause and Jason Oppenheim Said About Having Kids, Their Future on ‘Selling Sunset’ Season 5

Their almost happy ending. Chrishell Stause and Jason Oppenheim’s relationship was front and center on season 5 of Selling Sunset as the (former) couple debated their future together. The fifth installment of the Netflix series, which started streaming on Friday, April 22, kicked off with Chrishell and Jason in Greece with their costars — the vacation that took their romance public in July 2021. “Sometimes what you’re looking for can be right in front of you,” she gushed during the first episode of season 5. While chatting with Mary Fitzgerald, Chrishell, who was previously married to Justin Hartley, called her romance with Jason “backwards than any relationship” she’s ever been in. “He had a type before. So did I,” she continued. “I had a height thing, I’ll be honest. I didn’t even see him like that. It’s so funny [because] it’s so opposite of what I would’ve imagined. Just, like, the ultimate respect from both sides for each other. That is just something that I’ve never had before.” During the 10-episode season, the pair debated having children as Chrishell made it clear she wants to be a mother. They also visited a fertility doctor with plans to make embryos with Chrishell's frozen eggs. [jwplayer d9Rq2SDi-l3ahXupL] “We’ve had many conversations. It's just that, at this point, he is not 100 percent sure if he's ready to say, ‘OK, let’s, like, implant and have a baby,’” the former soap opera star told her sisters during the finale. “So I just think, right now, we're just trying to be smart about time and in that time, use it to see, you know, what he wants.” As fans who’ve already binged season 5 of Selling Sunset know, the pair called it quits in December 2021 after Jason officially decided he didn’t want to be a dad. “Jason was and is my best friend, and other than our ideas for family ultimately not being aligned, the amount of respect and love we have for each other will not change going forward,” Chrishell wrote via Instagram at the time, thanking her boss for “the most incredible relationship and for consistently being honest with me even when it hurts.” Jason, for his part, said in a statement: "While Chrishell and I are no longer together, we remain best friends and we will always love and support one another. She was the most amazing girlfriend I've ever had and it was the happiest and the most fulfilling relationship of my life. While we have different wants regarding a family, we continue to have the utmost respect for one another. Chrishell is an exceptional human being and loving her and having her in my life is one of the best things that has ever happened to me." Selling Sunset is currently streaming on Netflix. Scroll through for the biggest takeaways about Chrishell and Jason’s relationship:

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The Origins of Their Romance

Chrishell told her costars during episode 2 that Jason told her that he had “real feelings” for her on the night of Heather Rae Young and Tarek El Moussa’s engagement party, which went down in April 2021.

“Jason, he’s, like, the first person to say he was a lifelong bachelor, so that's why it never crossed my mind. And then I feel like Jason slowly has, like, changed his tune,” Chrishell explained. “I feel like I didn't think about it until he actually kissed me and then I was like, ‘Oh!’ … We became best friends before anything ever happened. I've never had a relationship start like that before.”

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Comparing Chrishell to Amal

During a conversation with Emma Hernan, the Under Construction author said Jason compared the couple to George and Amal Clooney.

“[In the past], he wasn't dating somebody that is more like an equal. … I don't want anything from him, I don't need anything from him,” she said. “He said the other day [that] he was like George Clooney when he met Amal. And I was like, ‘Oh, I love that!’ … He was famous for, like, you know, always dating some young blonde. And then all of a sudden [he found] someone totally different, his own age and that was super equal.”

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How His Relationship With Mary Compares

Mary, who dated Jason six years ago for “about a year,” told Chrishell that she’d never seen him like this. “We were happy, but he can’t commit,” she said of her own romance with the boss. “He just kind of freaked out and broke up with me out of the blue. Because he doesn’t want to be unfaithful, he just ends relationships before anything would ever happen.”

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The Baby Name

During a lunch with Jason’s mom, Chrishell revealed the pair had named their potential baby.

“We’ve talked about it a lot. … I know I want to be a mom. We even came up with a name for our fictitious child. Her name is Maverick," she said.

Jason subsequently told his mother that he was “considering” being a dad “more seriously than I ever have before.”

He explained: “Let's put it this way, ever since I was an adult, 18, until now, not something that I have seriously considered. And part of that is finding someone who you would trust as a mother too."

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Jason Thinks He Wants 1 Daughter

“If we decide to have a kid, it’ll be one girl,” Jason said during episode 9. “Because I’m scared of, like, the Oppenheim male genes.”

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Whether Chrishell Would Get Married Again

“To be honest with you, I really feel confident in saying that I’d leave it up to him,” Chrishell told Heather about what kind of wedding she would want if she walked down the aisle again. “Because I’ve done it. I could get excited about, like, eloping in Vegas by Elvis.”

In her confessional, she referenced her 2017 wedding to the This Is Us star, explaining, “I’ve done the big, fairy-tale wedding, you know? And we all saw how that worked out, so … I just feel like, you know, that’s personally not a goal of mine anymore. My focus is really on finding somebody that wants to commit to raising a child together.”

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Making a Decision

“I really have never been with a better woman or felt just more happy and comfortable in a relationship. … You would be an exceptional mom,” Jason told Chrishell during episode 8. “I guess for someone as analytical as me and who just likes to gather information and make informed decisions, this decision, I feel like, is hard for me.”

Chrishell argued that he can’t make this decision by using a spreadsheet. “I’ve definitely considered how cool it would be to hand off the Oppenheim Group in 20 years to someone,” he said.

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Freezing Embryos

“I don’t spend much time [on] whether we’re engaged or married or not, right now, like, the decision for me is, do we have a child?” Jason explained to Mary and Amanza Smith. “She has eggs frozen and we’re gonna try to fertilize them, making embryos. … It’s such a consuming decision. There’s no bigger commitment. It’s the biggest decision, I think, you could make. And every time I see a baby, I talk to the parents and … I’m like, ‘Are you happy with your kid?’ You’d be surprised how honest people are. It's also timing.”

Chrishell confirmed the couple had met with the doctor, but she told Heather that she didn’t want to get her hopes up.

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Jason Doubts Having Kids

During the finale, Jason admitted to brother Brett Oppenheim, Mary and Amanza that his priority is to be a “great boyfriend” to Chrishell, but he’s “overwhelmed” when he thinks about adding fatherhood to his daily responsibilities.

“I wish that the pendulum would swing in one direction so it'd be more clear for me, but I just feel like it's not yet. If I'm gonna have a kid, I want to have, like, that ‘I just really want this’*type of thing. And that pendulum is not going over there yet,” he said, adding that he doesn’t feel like he’s ready to say he doesn’t want to have a kid either. “I’m waiting for the process to kind of push me further in that direction. … I'm thinking about it every day.”

After Amanza suggested he might be “overthinking” the situation, Jason got upset.

“[I’m] overwhelmed with professional responsibility. You know, when I was first getting with Chrishell, I actually was taking a more emotional and less logical approach to it. And I was actually feeling more inclined to have a family with her,” he said. “And I think during the relationship, like, my kind of logical decision-making mind has been taking over. I honestly, like, I wake up in the morning like, ‘What would my morning look like with a baby? Who would I hire? Where would we live? What would I be doing now? How would we travel? How would I go down to Orange County? How would I be able to manage my office as an agent and transactions?’ I honestly get overwhelmed thinking about the idea of being a dad and it scares me because I know that if that's my decision, I lose Chrishell.”

He concluded: “I want to be with Chrishell and have a kid, like, that's actually — in my heart — what I want. I gotta come up with this decision ASAP because I cannot put Chrishell through waiting any longer. I mean, I owe her that respect and I love her too much to delay.”

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The Breakup

While their split wasn’t captured for Netflix cameras, Chrishell broke down while talking to Emma about the breakup in the finale.

“He just told me that he doesn't want to have kids, so as much as this hurts me to say, I've been clear with him what that would mean, so we are done. We broke up,” she said before she started to cry. “I’m just disappointed. … I just feel like you never have it figured out and I guess that's the life lesson. And I should know better at this point, but I thought this was it.”

While Emma said she “changed” Jason, Chrishell insisted she didn’t because he still doesn’t want to have kids. “And that's what I think is hard — when I think it’s, like, locked in and I got it, like, I figured out the code to life. I’m so happy and I'm with someone that respects me or I’m gonna have a baby and it's everything I've ever dreamed of,” she said. “You know, maybe this isn't my path. I’m 40, I don't know what the future holds now.”

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Her Future With the Oppenheim Group

“I live in this beautiful house. I've gotten my career in the best place it's ever been. I do not want to cry about a man,” Chrishell said in the finale. “We entered into this with, like, knowing that this was the case, I knew this going into it. But it's one of those things where I do need space to help myself detach. This sucks. I don't know if we can keep working together. … I am just saying that to be honest. I am not holding this against him. I understand. He genuinely thought, ‘This is something that I can do.’"