‘Sex/Life’ star Sarah Shahi says she’s ‘notorious’ at her kids’ elementary school thanks to the show

Though the show ‘Sex/Life’ on Netflix became an internet sensation (especially after one particular locker room shower scene, IYKYK) in 2021, the newfound fame had an…interesting effect on star Sarah Shahi’s real life. And not in the way you’d probably assume.

In an interview with POPSUGAR, Shahi says people in her real life had a difficult time distinguishing from Shahi’s character, a very bored and very horny Billie Connelly, from who she actually is. It got so crazy, apparently, that she used to have to wear a disguise when picking up her kids from school. Because when you’re just trying to get your kids home in time for dinner, you don’t have the time (or the desire) to play sex therapist for all of their classmates’ parents.

Yes, really.

“My kids’ elementary school, I became notorious over there,” Shahi explains. “And I had to disguise myself for a bit because I became the poster child for unhappily married women. And so there was a lineup. I was like Dr. Ruth at 7-year-olds’s birthday parties, just giving out love and relationship advice.”

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Shahi has three kids with her ex-husband, fellow actor Steve Howey: William, 13, and twins Violet and Knox, 8. She and Howey finalized their divorce in 2021, and Shahi has been in a real-life relationship with her tall, dreamy, Australian “Sex/Life” co-star Adam Demos since filming the show in 2020.

Despite the notoriety, Shahi makes it clear she’s “grateful” for every “beautiful” encounter she has with a fan who connected with Billie. Because while the show may be a little over-the-top in some ways, at its core it’s about a wife of two very young kids who feels disconnected from herself and isn’t having her needs met. Let’s see a show of hands from every wife who can relate, shall we?

Shahi says Demos, who plays Brad on the show, gets recognized pretty easily if they’re out and about together.

“If we’re together, they’ll hear his voice, and they’ll instantly go, ‘Oh, you’re from that show. You’re Brad,’” she says. “And I’m standing right next to him, and they just…They’re like, ‘You must be so proud of him.’ I’m like, ‘I am. I’m very proud.’”

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In case you didn’t already know (though some of you out there have probably already binged it), the second season of “Sex/Life” is on Netflix now. And yes, it’s just as sexy as the first season—and still full of some unexpected plot twists, to be sure.

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