The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives couple appeared on The Viall Information podcast the place they broke down a few of the misconceptions about their marriage, their latest separation, and rumors about their funds.
Zac and Jen Affleck are setting the report straight relating to the misconceptions and rumors surrounding their marriage.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars gave a uncommon joint interview on The Viall Information Wednesday and dropped some main bombshells about their relationship — together with how their second child was conceived.
“We had one after which a second child back-to-back. Jen — like, six months after she gave delivery — she bought pregnant once more together with her second child,” he mentioned earlier than claiming, “I bought tricked into it. She took out her IUD with out telling me.”
Zac recalled that time period as a “traumatic” one for the couple and mentioned it was earlier than they entered remedy. Jen, in the meantime, thought the the revelation about her second being pregnant was humorous, including, “Whoopsies, I forgot to let you know (I took my IUD out).”
The couple are at the moment anticipating their third child, which additionally got here as a shock to the pair, with Jen studying she was pregnant after the pair reunited throughout a quick separation, as seen on the second season of Slomw.
Whereas the pair are again collectively now, Jen instructed Viall she was very a lot critical about the potential of ending their marriage.
“I principally instructed him once I was in a spot the place I need to stroll away from the connection, ‘I am doing this. That is what I really feel proper about. You’ll be able to come together with me. You’ll be able to help me on this or you possibly can stroll away,'” she recalled. “I used to be not against divorce. I used to be really doing what I felt was proper. Due to that, I really feel like our relationship has by no means been stronger as a result of I’ve discovered my voice and I am nonetheless within the means of that.”
Elsewhere within the podcast, the couple touched on their funds, with an alleged playing habit and Zac’s medical faculty being a serious plotline for the pair.
“My medical faculty tuition — that by no means occurred,” Zac defined, addressing claims that he had gambled away funds put aside for his education. “I hadn’t even been accepted to medical faculty when that season was filmed. There wasn’t even a deposit to pay for varsity as a result of I hadn’t been accepted into a faculty but. So a variety of these issues that have been mentioned by the women have been hurtful and unfaithful and has led to a variety of backlash on social media, which has been actually unhappy.”
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Jen, nonetheless, pushed again on Zac’s model of occasions, significantly relating to claims she hadn’t supplied to cowl his medical faculty prices.
“It was my plan. I had a dialog along with your mother and father and mentioned, ‘I wish to pay for med faculty,'” she acknowledged, to which Zac replied, “I do not need to argue that. The truth is my dad had saved up a bunch of cash. He needed to assist pay for that. He had saved that cash apart.”
Zac additional clarified that he by no means obtained these funds straight.
“He straight paid that to the varsity. That was by no means cash I ever noticed or touched. That was straight from him to the varsity. Then as soon as I withdrew from medical faculty, that wasn’t cash I bought to maintain,” he maintained.
As for the remainder of their funds, along with the cash produced from MomTok and the present, Zac mentioned within the early days of their relationship, he supported their household by being a door-to-door salesman.
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“The tremendous frequent factor in Utah is the place each summer season youngsters exit from Utah to completely different states and so they promote pest management or alarms door to door,” he defined. “Individuals make a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} in a summer season. I’ve buddies who’re millionaires simply promoting pest management door to door. That is what I used to be doing to supply for our household early on.”
“It nonetheless generally makes me insecure. Generally I am at dwelling on a random Tuesday as a stay-at-home dad or I am on the trampoline park with my two youngsters and I’m like, ‘What the hell am I doing with my life?'” he admitted of his profession trajectory after taking a step again from med faculty. “I am grateful that that’s even a chance. I nonetheless assume I need to determine what I need to do. However again at the moment, it was actually onerous as a result of this dynamic had switched.”
Sharing their relationship and their Mormon beliefs with the world has been troublesome, however it’s one thing Jen says she felt “known as” to do.
“Generally you simply really feel known as to one thing and you may’t clarify why,” Jen detailed. “It is not straightforward being susceptible as a Mormon and exhibiting what really occurs generally in Mormon relationships. I really feel like we’re doing the onerous factor, however doing the appropriate factor by exposing what really occurs.”
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She continued, “Hopefully folks throughout the Mormon tradition can take a look at our relationship and mirror on theirs and say like, ‘Hey, I believe we type of wrestle with that, too.’ Or, ‘Possibly my husband has fed into the patriarchy and is not treating me proper.’ I need to be an instance of that.”
Seasons 1 and a couple of of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are at the moment streaming on Hulu.
