From Friday, September 6, American viewers follow the hectic daily life of Zach Affleck and his wife Jennifer, the protagonist of the reality show “The Secret Life of Mormon Women”. A portrait of a young man who is the polar opposite of his distant Hollywood cousin.
His name is J.Lo. mom’s tribute to the singer. “Jenny From the Block is here,” he usually jokes, referring to the Jennifer Lopez hit. Coincidentally or not, Jennifer Lynn Affleck is married to Ben Affleck’s first cousin Zac. At the beginning of September, American viewers got to know this Mormon couple, the characters of the reality show “The Secret Life of Mormon Women”. Hence the scandalous report about the “secret life of Mormon women”. The show follows eight mothers from this community who become famous after a sex scandal.
The TikTok controversy
Since 2021, these young women have launched the hashtag #MomTok on TikTok. On videos, we can see them dancing in groups, forming a V, or displaying their Stanley Cups as trophies. Among them is one Taylor Frankie Paul. In 2022, she shared a video that went viral in which she revealed that she had “gentle” swings with her ex-husband, Tate, and other Mormon couples in Utah, not involving penetration.
These revelations caused a great stir. Internet users thus tried to guess the identity of the interested mothers. The main parties involved have in turn turned their backs on Taylor Frankie Paul, denying they were involved in the swing. But this media firestorm inspired a series on Hulu, The Secret Lives of Mormon Women. The eight-episode show, set to air in September 2024, looks at how Taylor Frankie Paul and her TikTok friends dealt with these controversies and their lives today. Among them is one Jennifer Affleck, 25 years old, whose daily life we follow with her husband, 28-year-old Zach. However, it is not known if he participated in these swing stories.
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Live Las Vegas
One thing is certain. All is not rosy with flexes. In one of the episodes of the reality show, Jennifer takes part in the girls’ trip to Las Vegas. When Zac finds out she’s attending a Chippendales show, he sends her provocative text messages, including telling her he “doesn’t love her anymore”. He is then forced to leave for the evening, while friends describe the young man as “crazy” and a “narcissist”. The latter also suggested that Zach sometimes indulged in gambling, a practice forbidden among Mormons.
When her friends reunite, Jennifer readily admits that her husband is “wrong” and that he has “narcissistic traits” that resurface “every few months”. An incident that she says would encourage her to “take a step back” from her relationship and “consider it imperfect.” Since then, the young woman has revealed in columnsUs Weekly on Saturday, September 7, that the show allowed them to work on their relationship issues. “Being in front of the camera and watching these moments made us take a step back, think about our relationship and made us see what we need to change,” she said, making sure they are now in couples therapy.
Perfect couple?
On paper, Zach and Jennifer Affleck looked like a “model” couple. The influencer, who has more than a million TikTok subscribers, and the medical student met in 2018 on the Mormon app Mutual. Later, the young man proposed to his partner in New York in January 2019. The couple said yes on June 28, 2019 in Newport Beach, California before celebrating on a yacht. Since then, she has given birth to two children, Nora, born in November 2021, and Luca, born in July 2023.
“We were so young when we became parents and had so much to learn, but Zach was always there, every step of the way,” she wrote on Instagram on Father’s Day. He never hesitated to give Nora and Luka everything they needed.” Jennifer Affleck also chronicles her family’s daily life on her Instagram account, which is followed by 251,000 subscribers. We see the clan taking photos together at the beach, the couple playing sports together, or even photos of their time in New York.
A fault in the stars
Born in Utah, Zach is the son of Dave and Kristel Leishman Affleck, who raised him in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), a Mormon community. 2015 After graduating from Olympus High School in May, he later participated in a missionary program in the Dominican Republic. Graduating from Brigham Young University in 2024, he later attended medical school. An existence a thousand miles away from the Hollywood routine of Ben Affleck, his father Dave’s cousin. Zach would only meet the actor once in his life.
Source: Le Figaro
