Heather Homosexual has discovered kindred spirits within the women of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
In an unique interview with PEOPLE, the Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star, 50, revealed she is a fan of the Hulu actuality present and why she felt seen with how the Mormon religion was represented as a former member of the church.
“It mainly validated what I wrote about in Unhealthy Mormon,” she defined, referring to her memoir. “And it validated what we have been speaking about on Housewives for the final 5 seasons.”
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The Bravolebrity added that she felt the Salt Lake Metropolis Housewives laid the “groundwork for this tradition.” She claimed that after they first got here on the scene, they have been criticized for not “representing it” correctly and others accused her of “talking out as a result of I used to be disgruntled or as a result of I had been rejected.”
“Now, once you see this entire different technology, these younger ladies which are saying the very same issues that we have been saying for the final 5 years, and dwelling it,” she continued. “It pulls again the curtain much more. I really feel very seen and validated, and like, ‘See? We informed you so. We weren’t mendacity. No lies have been informed.’ ”
Homosexual recalled how she and her friends was once referred to as “old-school Mormons” and could be informed that the Mormon church had “modified and advanced” since they departed.
“These are younger, 21-year-old ladies that aren’t at some point totally different than I used to be after I was 21, by way of what their expectations are and what the cultural pressures are from their households and past,” she countered.
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The truth star informed PEOPLE that she hopes and “prays” the forged of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives will comply with her trajectory and turn into feminists and pursue alternatives given to them by the present with “reckless abandon, as a result of it is their approach out.”
“After I meet folks, I really feel rescued by the Housewives. I really feel rescued by these alternatives,” Homosexual stated. “Each e-book I write, I really feel is cathartic remedy, unburdening extra of what I am unpacking. And I’d by no means have been ready to try this with out these alternatives.”
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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has rapidly turn into one in every of Hulu’s greatest actuality sequence since its premiere on Sept. 6. Earlier this month, Hulu confirmed that the women of MomTok will carry the dancing and drama again to our screens for one more 20 episodes.
The truth sequence follows eight in style Mormon #MomTok influencers who rose to recognition in 2020 — Taylor Frankie Paul, Jennifer Affleck, Demi Engemann, Mayci Neeley, Jessi Ngatikaura, Mikayla Matthews, Whitney Leavitt and Layla Taylor.
