Parvati Shallow Details Using a Strap-On With Mae Martin in New Book
Fans of Survivor will learn a lot about Parvati Shallow’s life — both on and off the island — when they read her new book, Nice Girls Don’t Win.
In the memoir, released on Tuesday, July 8, the 42-year-old reality star shares new details of her relationship with comedian Mae Martin.
“Mae’s a beautiful mix of boy and girl. Or neither, really. They’re nonbinary, and they’d been with lots of straight women before. Only some of them ever want to wear the dick,” Shallow writes. “This was an exploration for both of us. I’d only ever been with men before, and Mae knew this. Both of us dove into a field of infinite creative possibility, playing in the void together: It was exciting, making it all up in the moment.”
Shallow says that her “new, manly appendage” alleviated her from “the pressure” she “normally felt to perform my specific role of ‘woman’” in the bedroom.
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“Freedom pulsed throughout my whole being. My heart flew open. I climbed on top of Mae and I pressed my dick into them, watching it go in and out,” she writes. “I gripped their short blond hair and pulled their head back toward the pillow, leaning down to kiss their mouth. I was actively, passionately present, wildly turned on inside this entirely new experience.”
When Us Weekly spoke to Shallow about Nice Girls Don’t Win last month, it was hard to not blush when bringing up Martin’s introduction in the book.
“I asked Mae. I was like, ‘Are you OK with this? Mae is like, ‘Oh God,’” Shallow recalled of telling Martin about the strap-on story being in the book. “Mae is usually the top, so it’s different for role reversal.”
Shallow started dating Martin following her divorce from fellow Survivor player John Fincher.
“[Meeting Mae] was like a miracle and changed everything for me because it shook up my whole world of dating, relationships, love, sex and what all of that could feel like and look like,” Shallow told Us.
When asked about their current status following split rumors, Shallow simply said, “It’s open-ended, unresolved.”
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Martin also has a good relationship with Shallow’s 7-year-old daughter, Ama, who she shares with Fincher. In the book, Shallow recalls filing for divorce from Fincher after he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
”What kind of person resents someone who just got diagnosed with a life-threatening illness? Only a real villain, I thought,” she writes. “Still, I wanted out. Needed out. I needed space to breathe to be alone and take care of me. My body was sending me SOS signals daily. … There was no breathing room for any of us. The fights between us were loud and scary.”
Shallow told Us that Fincher is still “going through treatment” as they coparent their daughter.
“He seems to be doing well, but it’s a hard diagnosis. He’s got a lot of support,” she said. “There’s a lot of people that are cheering for him and behind him and helping him out. I know I’m always ready and willing to take on more than my share to support him.”
Nice Girls Don’t Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power is available now.
