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MORMON WIVES ARE BACK!
Us Weekly
|May 19, 2025
THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
When The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives dropped last year, we were expecting to roll our eyes at trad wives showing off perfect hair and perfect apple pies.
But season 1 blew our minds. Yes, the MomTok women were perfectly blow-dried — a miracle considering how many sticky-fingered toddlers they have among them — but also strong, and their lives were hardly ideal. Swinging scandals, relationship fails and vicious arguments were just the start.
As season 2 kicks off (Hulu, May 15), strained romances, friendship rifts, surprise pregnancies and questionable motives come into play. The ladies sat down with Us to spill the tea — and wow, there's a lot of it! Where We Left Off So much drama! On top of the 2022 “soft-swinging” scandal that reverberated throughout her tight-knit friend group and beyond, the divorced Taylor Frankie Paul engaged in a seriously tumultuous on-again, off-again relationship with baby daddy Dakota Mortensen.
New Drama to Tok About In season 2, the 30-year-old mother of three tries to get past those traumatic years and repair MomTok relationships. That includes a reunion with old friend Miranda McWhorter, who was also implicated in the soft-swinging drama, causing a rift in the group.
“It was nice that she came in because it opened the gates of me being able to speak actual truth about who was involved,” Taylor tells Us. “I haven't told before what we were up to at these parties, and it’s obviously not something I’m proud of, but it’s freeing at the same time.” We won't divulge it all here, but for starters, she reveals on the show, “We did have sex in the shower with our husbands all together. We also had sex in the same bed at the same time.” And then there are blindfolds...
This story is from the May 19, 2025 edition of Us Weekly.
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