How to construct a minimum bound box tuple for each geometry in a GeoDataFrame

I have a geopandas GeoDataFrame of lakes. I am trying to create a new column named ‘MBB’ with the bounding box for each lake.

I am using the bounds function from GeoPandas. However, this function exports minx, miny, maxx, and maxy in four separate columns.

# Preview the Use of the .bounds method to ensure it is exporting properly
lakes_a['geometry'].bounds

My desired output would look like the below and be able to be reinserted into the GeoPandasDataFrame

My gut tells me that I need to use either shapely.Geometry.Polygon or shapely.Geometry.box

The Polygon data used to create these is as follows.

Note: This is my first time working with GeoPandas (and new to Python as well); please forgive me if I made any mistakes 🙂

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