Heather Gay On Her Memoir 'Bad Mormon' And Sharg Secrets

Contents:

• ‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR
• HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
• PHOTOS: HEATHER GAY BUYS $2.89 MILLN HOE, SEE INSI RHOSLC STAR’S 7,922-SQ-FT PAD WH WE CELLAR, OUTDOOR ENTERTAG SPACE, AND A POOL
• RHOSLC FANS SLAM HEATHER GAY’S $150 DAVID’S BRIDAL RNN DRS AS ‘TACKY’ AFTER MARY COSBY SNUBBED BRAVO SPECIAL
• HEATHER GAY WIKI: NET WORTH, HEIGHT, HBAND, AGE, JOB
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RHOSLC STAR HEATHER GAY'S EX-HBAND
• HEATHER GAY - UPDATED SEP 2023
• SHE’S KNOWN FOR ‘REAL HOEWIV OF SLC,’ BUT HEATHER GAY HAS BUILT A BOOMG BS

‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR

Of the, one of the least tra-wrecky is Heather Gay, who’s generally a clear-eyed mediator of the juvenile tfights the other characters routely engage .

She’s sarstic and fierce, but also vulnerable; the show’s first season picks up as Gay is reelg om a divorce om a proment man she scrib as “Mormon royalty” and h om her very recent spl om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. Both of those trmatic breakups are chronicled Gay’s tell-all memoir “Bad Mormon, ” out this week. Gay hs upon some gent observatns about how tough Mormonism n be on those of who don’t que f the mold.

HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'

It will only tick you off, pecially when Gay spills the herbal tea on the LDS temple ceremony. This is a straight-om-the-hip acunt of one dissint’s experienc, and I spect om a uple of small miscu about Mormonism that may have been at least partly ghostwrten by someone who was not as steeped the fah as Gay herself. Gay grew up as a middle child a by-the-book LDS fay out wt.

Dpe some closet doubts, Gay was a hypersuccsful missnary who spouted the church’s prcribed answers to every qutn.

Gay’s picture-perfect marriage was not the fantasy she portrayed as her extravagant annual Christmas rds. That’s a fascatg nvergence of events, bee her dghter entered the fold jt as Gay was begng to see no role for herself , even though she was servg as a Relief Society print.

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Enter the former Entreprenr Stunt of the Year (honorable mentn): What saved Gay was nng and growg her new bety servic bs.

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

In her pre-terview dns, Gay let the filmmakers see her life warts and all:. Ironilly, the manufactured “realy” of realy TV enabled Gay to fally be herself.

In the journey om hoewife to Hoewife, Gay wr, she has fally found herself. “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” often addrs Latter-day Sat issu, even though there are no fully active members of the fah the are three former members (Heather Gay, Whney Rose and Jen Shah), and one (Lisa Barlow) who profs belief the church whout adherg to all of s standards.

)But amid all the yellg, screamg, fightg and fdg, Shah’s arrt on feral d charg, and Mary Cosby and Jennie Nguyen’s racism, “RHOSLC” clus a storyle viewers have never seen play out on a TV seri — the journey of one woman as she stggl to leave The Church of J Christ of Latter-day the show premiered November 2020, Gay scribed herself as a “good Mormon gone bad. ”The end of a marriageGay told viewers that she grew up a strong Latter-day Sat fay, went on a church missn, and attend church-owned Brigham Young Universy.

HEATHER GAY WIKI: NET WORTH, HEIGHT, HBAND, AGE, JOB

”(Bravo) Heather Gay, left, and Jen Shah try to repair their iendship the Sept. "Acrdg to Gay, whose divorce was falized 2014, members of her ward, or ngregatn, began treatg her and her three dghters differently after the divorce.

”In Season Two, Gay’s send olst dghter, Geia, 15, said she’s “worried” about gog back to church “bee we haven’t been so long.

”“It’s never too late, ” Gay said, vowg to acpany Annabelle to church “not bee I believe and I’m gog to do aga — [but] so I n support you.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RHOSLC STAR HEATHER GAY'S EX-HBAND

”A big cisnGay said that fay members look at her divorce as “the nsequence of [her] bad choic. Her ex-hband n remarry and “still have full church stat, ” but she feels she has been marked as Season One of “Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” Gay told her dghters about the “double life” she had been livg and ma the cisn to stop tryg to “straddle the fence” between beg or out of the church. ”(Nile Weagart | Bravo) Heather Gay and Lisa Barlow on "The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy" rnn.

Fractured fayGay said that once she cid to leave the Utah-based fah, she realized she had been actg badly toward her younger sister, Nancy, who married outsi The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and moved to Colorado. “She broke away om the Mormon church about 30 years ago, and was a huge acture our relatnship and her relatnship wh our fay, ” Gay said. ”Gay said she now feels “horrible guilt about the fact that I did not have a relatnship wh my sister for s” and hop for a renciliatn.

”She has regretsGay is brash and outspoken, but she has exprsed heartfelt regret about her spl om the church. ”At the end of Season Two of “RHOSLC, ” Gay anized a memorial for her father, who died April 2020, and all but one of her fay members who are still active Latter-day Sats refed to attend.

HEATHER GAY - UPDATED SEP 2023

Gay said her mother and most of her siblgs were “takg a stand and refg to participate bee my mom [said] my dad was rollg over his grave, ” and bee “they thk ’d be a promise of their valu and a betrayal of their fah if they were to endorse me any way.

”At the Season Two rnn of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” however, Gay vents agast her former church. Heather Gay, a star on Bravo’s “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” has cemented herself as a fan favore one of the most buzzy hoewiv anchis. Throughout her three seasons on the show, which premiered 2020, Gay has spoken about her evolutn om vout Mormon to divorced mother of three and succsful bs owner, now openly distanced om the Mormon Church.

Speakg to, Gay says she's ntually breakg the iologil shackl that once nfed her thkg. We have secrets that spo keep om each other, hbands never disclosed certa oaths to their wiv, ” Gay ntu.

SHE’S KNOWN FOR ‘REAL HOEWIV OF SLC,’ BUT HEATHER GAY HAS BUILT A BOOMG BS

The book offers a drastic juxtaposn between the Heather Gay that once was and the Heather Gay of today. Ahead of s publitn, ught up wh Gay to hear about puttg the memoir together and what says she's 'loved' sharg the book wh her 3 dghters"Wrg a memoir nsumed my life, " Heather Gay tells was no distance, she says, between her life and the memoir, pecially as she was wrg events real time as they unfold. ”‘No one talks about ’: How Gay’s fay is alg wh the bookA large portn of the memoir is voted to Gay's marriage to ex-hband Frank William Gay.

Speakg to the Salt Lake Cy Tribune 2015, Gay said she knew om "day three" of her marriage that she "didn't want to grow old" wh her ex-hband, and that she "supprsed every personal stct orr to be a good wife and a good mother, but didn’t work out.

”Frank William Gay isn't mentned much on the show, but plays to the memoir. Gay says that he hasn’t read the book to her knowledge, and that “no one really talks about” the book her fay. "How do Gay al wh the rejectn of her public life?

It’s really the last few weeks of the book g out, readg the dbook and lookg at my story om tip to tail that I n see how much I’ve been strivg for someone to not discred my story and my experience, ” she ‘never imaged’ her book would land on the radar of the Mormon ChurchGay felt the stak were high when wrg her memoir. Now, I want to fend my own story, my own experience wh the same vulnerabily and rawns, bee I don’t want anythg to be left to chance, ” she is already fendg her words, as she’s active ligatn wh The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, monly known as the Mormon Church, over her tramark of the book Augt 2021, Gay’s pany, Heathertament, Inc., filed a tramark applitn for the term “Bad Mormon, ” ially for e of “bottle openers; beer mugs; ffee mugs; drkg bottl for sports; plastic water bottl sold empty; sports bottl sold empty; squeeze bottl sold empty; travel mugs. "“I never imaged a ln years that my ltle book would be even on the radar of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, " Gay fed the book wh pop culture for a reasonGay took a unique approach to wrg the memoir.