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- In the Jan. 22, episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, newbie Amanda Frances opened up about the loss of her twin newborn son Zion
- The author and entrepreneur tearfully shared that her twins Canaan and Zion were born 11 weeks early in 2022, but Zion tragically died five days later
- She and fiancé, Eddie Tsivislavsky are also parents to a baby daughter called Delilah
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Amanda Frances is opening up about the loss of one of her twin sons.
Speaking in a confessional in the latest episode of the Bravo show on Jan. 22, Frances, 40, shared that her twin son Zion tragically died in 2022.
“Three years ago, I had twins, Canaan and Zion, emergency C-section, middle of the night, born 11 weeks early,” Frances said.
The episode then cut to footage of Frances telling her costars Dorit Kemsley, Rachel Zoe, Erika Jayne and Sutton Stracke. “It was a hard pregnancy and Zion, my son, didn’t make it, he died at 5 days old in the NICU,” Frances explained.
She continued in the confessional through tears, “Zion’s placenta was faulty, so he was having a hard time in the womb … Zion, unfortunately, died in my arms the first time I ever held him.”
Frances, who is known as the “Money Queen,” shared that her son Canaan, who is now 3, spent 68 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before she was able to bring him home.
Speaking with her fiancé, Eddie Tsivislavsky, the couple discussed the upcoming anniversary of Zion’s death, which falls just five days after Canaan’s birthday.
“That was a really weird day for me last year, so I don’t know how I’ll be this year,” she told Tsivislavsky. “It snuck up on me last year,” Tsivislavsky added.
“Every year it’s the most joyful and sad week,” Frances continued in a confessional. “I can’t think of everything Canaan overcame to become a 3-year-old without thinking of Zion not making it, it’s just all in the week.”
“He lives on in us,” she added.
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The anniversary of Zion’s death fell on the same day Frances was attending costar Zoe’s psychic dinner party. While only Kyle Richards knew it was the anniversary, Frances told the rest of her costars after Kemsley, 49, confronted her about comments she had made about her divorce from estranged husband Paul “PK” Kemsley.
“Can I be really honest? Zion died three years ago today, and I’m holding on by a thread,” Frances told Kemsley and the group. “I’m telling you guys this is a hard day for me. He died. My kid died.”
Frances then decided to leave the dinner.
In a post on her Instagram in July 2025, Frances wrote, “Happy 3rd Trucks Birthday to Canaan Cash. 🛻Happy Heavenly Birthday to Zion Chase. 👼🏼,” as she marked the birthday and anniversary.
“As I said on their shared birthday: This week holds so much for me — so much love, so much pain, so much beauty and joy, and yet, grief,” she continued in the caption. “I am, undeniably, blessed. I am supremely grateful. And I am a mom who still grieves the baby who died in her arms. All of this is all true… all at once. ♥️ To our big birthday week…I thank God for all of it. 🤍.”
In the first slide from the carousel, Frances and Tsivislavsky could be seen posing with Canaan and their baby daughter Delilah alongside a truck-themed third birthday cake. Tsivislavsky is also dad to daughter Shoshana and son Liam from a previous marriage.
Frances also opened up about her loss in a July 2023 Instagram post, a year on from Zion’s death.
Sharing further details about Zion’s death, the entrepreneur revealed that Canaan and Zion were born at 29 weeks and two days. She added that Zion died of a brain hemorrhage.
The photos in the post showed Frances pregnant, with the Bravo star revealing she was 27 to 28 weeks pregnant when the snaps were taken during a vacation to Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and Chappaquiddick Island.
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“Could never have fathomed what was about to occur,” she added.
“I can barely remember life before him,” she continued on Canaan. “I can’t really imagine a life where the baby born just one minute before him was with us, and I know this…We can heal from anything. Absolutely f—ing anything.”
We are made to. We are meant to. There is life before. There will be life after. We find/chose our meaning, our direction, our steps, and who we will be as we go,” Frances added.
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