Heather Gay flirts wh 'Below Deck Adventure' crew

Contents:

• HERE’S HOW THE N.Y. TIM SCRIBED ‘REAL HOEWIV’ STAR HEATHER GAY’S NEW BOOK, ‘BAD MORMON’
• HEATHER GAY GIV A FULL TOUR OF BETY LAB + LASER (AND THE PARKG LOT!)
• RHOSLC FANS SLAM HEATHER GAY’S $150 DAVID’S BRIDAL RNN DRS AS ‘TACKY’ AFTER MARY COSBY SNUBBED BRAVO SPECIAL
• HEATHER GAY FLIRTS WH ‘BELOW DECK ADVENTURE’ CREW: ‘TAKE YOUR SHIRTS OFF!’
• HEATHER GAY AND MEREDH MARKS JO JEN SHAH NYC FOR UPG TRIAL
• ‘RHOSLC’ REP: HEATHER GAY FALLY SHAR THE BACKSTORY BEHD HER BLACK EYE
• HEATHER GAY AND WHNEY ROSE JT DROPPED SOME SURPRISG NEWS ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP

HERE’S HOW THE N.Y. TIM SCRIBED ‘REAL HOEWIV’ STAR HEATHER GAY’S NEW BOOK, ‘BAD MORMON’

Born and bred to be vout, Heather Gay based her life around her Mormon fah. From missn trips to attendg Brigham Young Universy to marryg to church royalty, Gay did everythg expected of a “good Mormon.

HEATHER GAY GIV A FULL TOUR OF BETY LAB + LASER (AND THE PARKG LOT!)

Famo for speakg the gospel tth, Gay reunts the difficult disvery of the damage that often exists behd a picture-perfect life and what took to blaze a new trail, even at the st of losg fay, iends, and her church.

Gay will be nversatn wh Kate Anrsen Brower, a journalist and thor of several books cludg First Women, Elizabeth Taylor: The Gr & Glamour of an In, and the #1 New York Tim btseller The Rince, which is beg ma to a Netflix seri. For Heather Gay, beg a st member on “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” was like “drawg a le the sand” wh her inty as a member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. When she joed the Bravo show 2019, she realized her move to quietly qu the fah would bee very fact, she knew many thgs she had left unspoken for years would fally be three seasons, fans of the realy show (and there are many) have watched the bubbly, wty Gay, who was divorced when she joed the show, flirt wh men, party and cricize her former relign — breakg the l of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” is rponsible for some of the most dramatic story l the anchise — one st member plead guilty to wispread d feral urt and another is married to her step-grandfather — and Gay’s stggl wh her fah are often relegated to B or even C plots.

RHOSLC FANS SLAM HEATHER GAY’S $150 DAVID’S BRIDAL RNN DRS AS ‘TACKY’ AFTER MARY COSBY SNUBBED BRAVO SPECIAL

“Bad Mormon, ” Gay’s new memoir, which out on Tuday, is her opportuny to explore her own feelgs at, 48, tails the pa, nfn, shame and prsn she experienced durg 4 1/2 s of loyal membership the church, and her eventual cisn to leave. She scrib beg asked qutns about her sexual experienc by her bishop when she was a teenager (a practice others have spoken out about); “preachg eternal life while dyg si” as a 20-somethg missnary the south of France; and phg through a of a zombielike existence wh her June 2022, Gay filed a tramark applitn on the words “Bad Mormon” for e on merchandise like beer mugs, shirts and socks. The church is opposg the applitn, claimg that Gay’s tramark tends “to e nfn, tarnishment and dilutn, ” and that her e of the word “bad” is “ceptive that falsely reprents that Opposer, the Church or s members are bad or otherwise behavg immorally or ntrary to the teachgs of the Church.

“When the book out, there will be no path back, ” Gay said. But I’m not sred like I ed to be, ” she years, Gay said she worked fastidly to mata the fa of a perfect life.

“She was betiful and wealthy and married to this guy wh the betiful kids, ” said Robson, 42, who met Gay 2008 when their dghters were krgarten together, addg that she always lled her “the queen of the moms. ”But then, 2011, Gay’s hband left, and the veneer she had nstcted cmbled.

HEATHER GAY FLIRTS WH ‘BELOW DECK ADVENTURE’ CREW: ‘TAKE YOUR SHIRTS OFF!’

In 2019, she stepped away om the yet, Gay said, “I didn’t get h by lightng, and I’m happier than I’ve ever been. ”Gay, the third of six siblgs, was born Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and moved to Denver wh her fay when she was 5.

HEATHER GAY AND MEREDH MARKS JO JEN SHAH NYC FOR UPG TRIAL

(Gay and her siblgs were raised the church, and most of her fay are still fully volved .

‘RHOSLC’ REP: HEATHER GAY FALLY SHAR THE BACKSTORY BEHD HER BLACK EYE

)As a teenager, Gay walked the le, participatg church activi and takg s teachgs to heart while surreptly tryg alhol, kissg boys and watchg forbidn TV shows and films like “Big Bad Mama” when her parents were out, she wr the 21, she graduated om Brigham Young Universy wh a gree Humani but saw herself as a failure bee she hadn’t found a hband. Unsure of what to do next, she cid to travel abroad to do missnary returng to the Uned Stat, she married Frank William Gay III and gave birth to three dghters, Ashley, Geia and Annabelle.

Gay felt isolated. In 2016, sgle and stgglg wh her relign, Gay began workg on a medil spa bs wh Robson, who had left the church many years ago, and beme her “non-Mormon gui.

HEATHER GAY AND WHNEY ROSE JT DROPPED SOME SURPRISG NEWS ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP

”Slowly, Gay began to distance herself om the church, driven, she said, by the divorce, by the church’s treatment of LGBTQ people and women, and by her sire for her dghters to live and love eely, to not fe themselv by their pury and abily to stay married and have said that wrg her memoir was the first time she really gave herself space to unrstand her story and her now, she is sgle, and she isn’t serly lookg for a partner. ”Though Gay is nsired a fan favore, viewers have taken issue wh her support of Jen Shah, another st member, who plead guilty to nspiracy to m wire d feral urt July, and was sentenced to 6-1/2 years prison last month.

” Gay said that she also felt rponsible for Shah bee she was the one who nnected Shah wh the show’s stg directors. “I felt like I brought her to this and I felt like exacerbated a lot of her circumstanc, ” Gay Gay first joed the st, she reveled the opportuny to she a light on herself and on her now-former relign, to stop performg goodns and to fally let herself be a ltle b bad. ”Heather Gay will be appearg person to discs her memoir, “Bad Mormon, ” Saturday, Feb.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY -- Pictured: Heather Gay -- (Photo by: Randy Shropshire/Bravo). Heather Gay. “Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” star Heather Gay will be readg om and signg pi of her new book, “Bad Mormon: A Memoir.