Their already fragile relationship is made even worse when Erica sleeps with Christian. Julia's narcissistic mother, Erica Noughton, comes to Miami and proceeds to degrade her and make her feel worthless for not becoming a doctor. At the end of the season, Julia decides to get a paternity test done on Matt. Julia drops out of college and later rallies against her housewife friends when they try and bar Sofia Lopez, a trans woman, from their women-only gym. Their friendship ends when Julia discovers that Jude is a professional gigolo who targets middle-aged housewives.
Julia discovers his attraction to her and uses it to make Sean jealous. Julia returns to college in an effort to finish her doctorate and meets a fellow student, named Jude.
Due to her unhappiness Julia flushes her daughter Annie's gerbil down the toilet, and tries to instigate an affair with Christian. Housewife Julia McNamara's life is already in freefall, dissatisfied with her marriage to plastic surgeon, Sean McNamara, and in love with his partner, Christian Troy, with whom she had a one-night stand in college. She has three children: Matt McNamara, Annie McNamara and Connor. Julia is Sean McNamara's wife of 17 years, with the couple divorcing for the last time in Season 4.
