{"id":953882,"date":"2026-11-05T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953882\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:46:22","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-star-jen-affleck-files-for-divorce-from-zac-affleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953882\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jen Affleck files for divorce from Zac Affleck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jennifer Affleck is ending her marriage to Zac Affleck after seven years, court documents have revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 27-year-old TV star and influencer filed for divorce in the Fourth Judicial District Court in Provo, Utah, according to documents obtained by ABC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She is currently pregnant with their fourth child. The pair share three other children, Nora, Luca and Penelope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">As news of the divorce broke, Jen took to Instagram to wish Nora happy birthday saying: \u201cI can\u2019t believe she\u2019s already five\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The former couple met in 2018 on a Mormon dating app called Mutual when Jen was 18, and Zac was 21 and got married a year later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Jen rose to fame on social media for her content as a young Mormon mother and also became part of MomTok, a viral group of Utah-based mum influencers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">In 2024, she was cast in Hulu\u2019s hit reality docuseries TSLOMW, which followed the dynamics, drama and scandals within the group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/57624221b88093de027b79584ebbbe30b7d47a44.jpg\" alt=\"Jen and Zac Affleck.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconJen and Zac Affleck. Credit: Instagram@jenniferaffleck<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The divorce comes after the Afflecks\u2019 relationship has faced challenges in the past, with the pair briefly separating following season one of TSLOMW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Their separation was a major plotline featured in season two of the show, and while they were separated, Jen discovered she was pregnant with their third child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">They continued to appear on seasons three to five of the series together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Jen also competed on season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, where Zac was seen in the audience cheering her on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">In April, fans speculated the pair could be having some issues when Jen was seen without her wedding ring in an emotional TikTok video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">In 2024, Jen reflected on her marriage in an Instagram post, saying they were just \u201cyoung, naive and inexperienced\u201d people, who \u201ctruly had no idea what we were getting ourselves into\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She admitted they \u201cdidn\u2019t always see eye to eye, and a lot of times, we still don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cBut that\u2019s what marriage is, we keep trying. I truly believe there were lessons we both needed to teach each other,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t have done it without Zac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cIs Zac perfect? No. Does he have flaws that we\u2019ve needed to address? Yes. But I can confidently say he\u2019s always supported and believed in me more than anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Jen is set to appear in the Mormon Wives spin-off, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County which premieres on Hulu on November 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jennifer Affleck is ending her marriage to Zac Affleck after seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,995,427],"class_list":["post-953882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-influencers","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}