Who would’ve thought The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives would be a petri dish of controversy? Actually, we did. Thanks to the extra-curricular activities of the group in episode 7 of the premier season, viewers are left wondering whether Jen and Zac Affleck are still together after he threatened divorce because she went to see male strippers in Vegas.
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Demi Engemann, as a surprise for the group, organized a trip to see Chippendales, a male strip club. Taylor Frankie Paul, Jen Affleck, and Mikayla Matthews weren’t so psyched about the surprise though. “I literally will be a divorced woman,” Jen told Mayci. I’m not even kidding. I’m not even just jokingly saying that. I’m literally telling you Zac would literally divorce me over something like this.”
Zac did actually threaten to divorce Jen over this—“He said he doesn’t want to be married to me if I do stuff like this,” she said tearfully to Taylor—the couple are still together and she told her friends that despite how he treats her, and that he’s a hypocrite for gambling when it against the Mormon religion, she’s sticking by him.
“When it comes to Jen and Zac’s relationship, it is a little alarming to me the way that she talks about how Zac wants things to be a little bit more traditional,” Demi said in a confessional. “Especially when it comes to the church, they think that their women owe them by doing things a specific way to prove that they are only that man’s wife and it’s so strange to me. It’s like you can have fun with your girls and go out and wear what you want to wear and be completely loyal to your husband.”
They share two children together, daughter Nora, who was born in November 2021, and son Lucas Lowell, who arrived in July 2023. “We were so young when we first became parents, with lots to learn, but Zac has always been there every step of the way. He’s never wavered in giving Nora and Luca everything they need,” the mom wrote on Instagram in honor of Father’s Day 2024.
