Shahs of Sunset star Mercedes MJ Javid reveals how she found a fresh start amid divorce

“Shahs of Sunset” star Mercedes “MJ” Javid has made a variety of life-changing moves lately, with filing for divorce, returning to reality TV, and relocating to a new Los Angeles-area home base. Yet, amid all those changes, what hasn’t shifted is how she prioritizes her son, Shams, almost seven, and her longtime career as a real estate agent.Catering to the needs of her kid and clients, Javid, 53, explains in the latest installment of Celebrity Sanctuary, remains her focus no matter her new address or relationship status.“I picked up and I reset,” says Javid.“The difference would be that I’m separated now, but everything else is the same.”Javid first joined the Bravo universe in 2012 as an original cast member of “Shahs of Sunset.” Over the course of nine seasons, the series highlighted the lives, relationships, and shared culture of Javid and her tight-knit clique of Persian-American friends.For MJ, that meant sharing several major personal moments on camera, including mourning the loss of her beloved father and marrying Tommy Feight within the span of a few months in 2018, and giving birth to Shams a year later in April 2019.Becoming parents ultimately motivated Javid and Feight to leave their home in lively West Hollywood, CA, for one in the suburban San Fernando Valley.In December 2019, they settled into a five-bedroom, four-bathroom, 3,600-square-foot midcentury abode in Woodland Hills, CA, that would eventually be featured on their latest reality TV series, “The Valley: Persian Style,” which debuted in January.“We [were] not in our party era.

We [were] in our parents era, so we decided to move where there’s parks and grass and we had no idea how much we were going to love it,” admits Javid.“We had no idea how much we were going to be so partial to it that we didn’t even want to go back for lunch in the city.”Through a move and new motherhood, Javid continued filming “Shahs of Sunset.” She also kept up ...