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Amanza Smith bonds with her ‘Selling Sunset’ costars over their children

Despite not seeing eye-to-eye on camera, “Selling Sunset” stars Amanza Smith and Heather Rae Young are making amends — and virtual playdates. Fans of the Netflix hit will remember the costars’ Season 2 feud after Smith remarked that she felt that Young, 32, met her boyfriend Tarek El Moussa’s children too early in their relationship. …

Despite not seeing eye-to-eye on camera, “Selling Sunset” stars Amanza Smith and Heather Rae Young are making amends — and virtual playdates.

Fans of the Netflix hit will remember the costars’ Season 2 feud after Smith remarked that she felt that Young, 32, met her boyfriend Tarek El Moussa’s children too early in their relationship.

“It was such an unfortunate incident,” Smith, 43, recently told Page Six. “I guess it made some good TV … now we talk about mom stuff and we like, her stepdaughter and my daughter are the same age and now we’re gonna have like a mommy playdate.”

El Moussa, 38, shares daughter Taylor and son Brayden with ex-wife Christina Anstead.

Smith added that now Young “gives [her] props” for being a single mom, rather than fighting with her.

She explained, “You don’t sleep when you’re a mom and it’s like go, go, go. It’s nonstop and we just kind of have just like banter about that.”

The cast of “Selling Sunset”Lindy Lin / Netflix

As for her fellow Oppenheim Group agents, Smith has only seen Mary Fitzgerald and Chrishell Hartley because is “quarantining hardcore.”

“I can’t get sick and so it was just me and the kiddos,” she said. “I didn’t even see Mary or Jason [Oppenheim] or anybody until I don’t know, maybe a month ago. Mary and I did a photoshoot together. We saw each other for the first time since filming.”

“Chrishell came over the other night because ‘Hamilton’ came out on Disney+ and we’re both obsessed with the musical and so she came over and we like, we still stayed six feet apart but we drank wine and sang ‘Hamilton’ songs and danced like crazy women in my living room,” she laughed.

Smith added that has been texting with Maya Vander, who welcomed her second child, daughter Elle in May, and keeps up with Davina Potratz on social media.

While at home, Smith is relishing her time with her children.

“We had been filming for like seven months or so and I’d missed a lot of quality time with my kids,” she told us. “My kids were in school and then after we stopped filming I did like this huge design job that had me working around the clock and so I was so tired and so ready for a break. The first month and a half of quarantine I was on cloud nine. I loved it. I got to sleep in, hang out with my kids every day — it was just like it was kinda like a mini-vacation.”

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When Season 3 premieres on August 7, viewers will learn more about Smith’s children, something she said was “emotional” to get on camera.

“I’m not really looking forward to seeing it. It was kind of emotional — we went through, we’re still going through — a lot as a little family … It was kind of just a natural moment between the three of us. And they just said some stuff that was kind of like, ‘Oh.’ It just kinda flew through everybody’s hearts. The cameramen were tearing up, the producers, the director, everybody was just kinda ‘Oh, okay.’ So that wasn’t hard because that was, those things happen between the three of us all the time … it was just very natural. It’s gonna be weird to see it on camera.”

Although pulling back on the curtain on her personal life was difficult, Smith maintains it felt important.

“I’m comfortable having [my children] on a little bit because I think my role on the show is as a single mom and I think it’s actually kind of important that you actually get to see me in that role without describing it. It’s cool to see how I interact with my kids and see their personalities. I mean, plus they are just adorable, so sweet, I think the world would enjoy seeing their two little faces.”

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