United Kingdom, July 3 -- Scheana Shay "didn't see a single red flag" when she unknowingly started an affair with Eddie Cibrian.

The 40-year-old reality star met Eddie for the first time back in 2006, when she was working at a "private member's cigar lounge and restaurant" in Los Angeles, and she was immediately attracted to him.

In an excerpt from her new memoir, My Good Side - which has been shared with Entertainment Weekly - Scheana says: "If you were to ask me when I was growing up what my exact type was, to a tee it was Eddie-tall, dark, and handsome, with dimples. The second we made eye contact, he smiled at me with those dimples, and I melted. How could I not? He's undeniably a gorgeous human."

At the time, Eddie was married to ...