Jenny Han Confirms Surprise ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Easter Eggs and Fans Are Losing It originally appeared on Parade.
Fans can’t get enough of all of the easter eggs in the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, and now Jenny Han has made a surprise confirmation about the new season.
On Aug. 13, the author and showrunner, 44, confirmed all of the cameos she makes in the new season on Instagram.
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In the caption, Han revealed that she is featured as a “Cousins country club member” during episode 6 when Belly (Lola Tung) tours the club for her upcoming wedding, “Mochi the cat meowing” in a game Steven (Sean Kaufman) plays while on the train during episode 5, and the “crossword puzzle clue” that Conrad (Chris Briney) leaves behind during the Christmas flashback in episode 2.
The photos in her carousel also included a look behind the scenes at Han’s cameos and filming for the final season as well. Fans flooded her comments with their excitement over the cameos, with one fan writing “your cameos are my favorite!”
“Loved seeing you in the episode tonight,” another fan wrote. “I’m like ‘oh my God the author with her lead 🥺🫶💚.'”
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Han has made cameos in previous seasons of The Summer I Turned Pretty, but revealed in an interview she posted to TikTok that one of the cameos in season 3 was something “I don’t think anyone would ever catch… because it’s a sound.”
After Han confirmed her secret cameo, one fan commented on her Instagram post that “I couldn’t find your cameo in episode only for you to be the cat LMAO” in response to the subtle appearance from the author.
The popular Prime Video series is also known to throw in easter eggs and references to previous seasons help tell push the story forward. The show especially relies on Taylor Swift‘s music as an important story-telling device as the season unfolds.
In a 2023 interview with E! News, Han explained that it was important for the series to include Swift’s music because “it’s been so many years since the first book came out and so many people have been connecting her music to the story.”
“I knew what it would mean to me and I knew even more what it would mean to the people who have held these books really close to their hearts,” she added. “That just felt like the best gift I could ever give.”
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Jenny Han Confirms Surprise ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Easter Eggs and Fans Are Losing It first appeared on Parade on Aug 14, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
