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Contents:

• HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’
• ‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY ADMS IENDSHIP WH JEN SHAH CHANGED AFTER GUILTY PLEA
• JANA RIS: ‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR
• HEATHER GAY DCRIB HERSELF AS “SMARTER” AND “WISER” SCE SAYG JEN SHAH IS THE “MVP” OF SALT LAKE CY
• HEATHER GAY
• ‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY SAYS JEN SHAH’S LIFTYLE ‘WAS ALL A LIE’ BEFORE FRD SNDAL
• HEATHER GAY NFIRMS MARY COSBY IS G BACK TO ‘RHOSLC’
• HEATHER GAY AND MEREDH MARKS JO JEN SHAH NYC FOR UPG TRIAL
• WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE
• HEATHER GAY
• HEATHER GAY | ENTERTAMENT NEWS, PHOTOS, AND VIOS
• ‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY ‘OVERWHELMED WH GRIEF’ AFTER JEN SHAH PLED GUILTY

HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA star of the Salt Lake Cy anchise tails her separatn om the church a new Raff for The New York TimSALT LAKE CITY — 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. 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 Ms.

‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY ADMS IENDSHIP WH JEN SHAH CHANGED AFTER GUILTY PLEA

7, is her opportuny to explore her own feelgs at Gay, 48, tails the pa, nfn, shame and prsn she experienced durg four-and-a-half s of loyal membership the church, and her eventual cisn to leave. Gay filed a tramark applitn on the words “Bad Mormon” for e on merchandise like beer mugs, shirts and socks. 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.

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

Gay 2008 when their dghters were krgarten together, addg that she always lled her “the queen of the moms.

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, Calif., and moved to Denver wh her fay when she was 5. Gay and her siblgs were raised the church, and most of her fay are still fully volved .

HEATHER GAY DCRIB HERSELF AS “SMARTER” AND “WISER” SCE SAYG JEN SHAH IS THE “MVP” OF SALT LAKE CY

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. Gay began to distance herself om the church, driven, she said, by the divorce, by the church’s treatment of L.

HEATHER GAY

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 Gay said that wrg her memoir was the first time she really gave herself space to unrstand her story and her Raff for The New York TimRight now, she is sgle, and she isn’t serly lookg for a partner. 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 six and a half years prison last month.

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.

‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY SAYS JEN SHAH’S LIFTYLE ‘WAS ALL A LIE’ BEFORE FRD SNDAL

Gay reerat (ad nsm) that, while she was amb and outspoken, she was still very tied to the Mormon relign.

Her marriage fails bee, as Gay mentns, they are fundamentally patible but she giv exampl the most unflatterg ways. 1, 311 reviews95 followersMay 8, 2023⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I had no ia who Heather Gay was when I grabbed this for the tchy tle.

HEATHER GAY NFIRMS MARY COSBY IS G BACK TO ‘RHOSLC’

Gay speaks of growg up the LDS church, and the challeng she faced g of age; big life cisns, marriage, kids, bs, divorce, and, of urse, the show. However, as a profsnal book reviewer who attend BYU and has lived Utah for over a , I feel uniquely qualified to give a fair review of Heather Gay's btsellg memoir. I'm not here to tell you how I felt about the book but to give you an ia about how you'll likely feel readg Bad bswoman and realy star Heather Gay was raised as a member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats but publicly left the relign durg the first season of The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy.

In her memoir, Gay discs her fah journey and her parture om the LDS off, let's talk about the qualy of the memoir.

The RHOSLC ntent don't e until the very end and Gay giv background tail about the start of the show, but no juicy gossip about her stmat. Gay may gloss over her personal life, but she is very ndid about her experience the LDS Church. Gay was not a ge LDS or an extremist; her life was very much the realm of the typil mastream Mormon experience.

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

Gay go to mute tail about the relign, specifilly about the temple ceremony that members hold very sacred.

Although their personal experienc will obvly vary om Gay's many regards, such rears will likely fd Gay's story highly relatable. I thk 10-20 years, down the road, would have allowed a more mature (I mean a few more life experienc and a dig) Heather Gay, to wre a memoir wh more pth and soul.

Nothg of, no reason to read on unls you are terted my unique perspective about Heather Gay, the LDS Church relatn to this memoir and livg on the edge for most of my life...... The LDS church might be sug Heather Gay over the name but they have zero grounds to stand on and after the last few years of negative publicy, they should probably back off while they n, pecially bee the majory of every current member, unr the age of 25 uld probably be nsired a "Bad Mormon. Also, on the topic of Mormons beg Christians, Heather Gay did mentn, her book, that Mormons don't believe the cross.

WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE

? I am not really gog to lve ep here but I don’t really rpect Heather Gay all that much. There are a lot of good people, solid valu, the church’s foc on fai, siari to the Savr’s thentic gospel, most importantly baptism (although 8 is qutnable and batable…Catholics take this to a whole new level), the sacrament (which is for everyone and not somethg you take away om people nor hold over one’s head nor a moment to huiate young men when they misread the prayers…such a pet peeve pecially for somethg that is personal and symbolic) and the teachgs and pictns of a gentle savr n be reason enough to hang on (or at least not remove your name om the rerds) even if you have to get up and leave half the time or pass on your D&C lsons to someone else but Heather Gay really didn’t seem to have a broken shelf and jt giv off a lot of self nfn (book and show). 889 reviewsFebary 27, 2023I loved Heather Gay on RHOSL but now I feel like we’re sisters.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named one of Entertament Tonight’s Bt Celebry Memoirs of 2023 As seen The New York Tim, People, The Cut, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Today, Btle, Us Weekly, Life & Style, and Interview “No stone go unturned” (People) this memoir about The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy star Heather Gay’s parture om the Mormon Church, and her unforeen succs bs, televisn, and sgle motherhood.

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HEATHER GAY

Heather Gay is no longer Jen Shah’s “ri-or-die” bt iend followg the former realy star’s nvictn for wire d. Although Gay, 48, stood by Shah’s si durg Season 3 of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” she said that “everythg changed for me when she pled guilty.

“I was labeled ri-or-die bee I had a iend that was lookg at me and tellg me she was nocent, ” Gay explaed to Us Weekly on Monday.

HEATHER GAY | ENTERTAMENT NEWS, PHOTOS, AND VIOS

“I did not give them money, but I know people on this uch did, ” Gay said, claimg “iend of” the st Angie Harrgton “gave [the Shahs] money. Dpe beg “overwhelmed wh grief” about the suatn, Gay isn’t ready to let go of the iendship entirely.

(Kim Raff | The New York Tim) Heather Gay, a realy televisn star, at her home Murray, Utah, Jan.

Gay, a member of the st of "The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, " tails her separatn om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats her new memoir, "Bad Mormon. None of the characters is a hoewife and most don’t feel particularly real, but all of them do ed live and around Salt Lake Cy — at least when they’re not jettg off to New York or other exotic the, one of the least tra-wrecky is Heather Gay, who’s generally a clear-eyed mediator of the juvenile tfights which the other characters routely engage.

‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY ‘OVERWHELMED WH GRIEF’ AFTER JEN SHAH PLED GUILTY

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 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. It will only tick you off, pecially when Gay spills the herbal tea on the Latter-day Sat 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. Dpe some closet doubts, Gay was a hyper-succsful 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. But bee they’d been ndned that if they simply ntued to play their assigned parts, they would be blsed, they went through the motns for years before he left her on the day of their elst dghter’s ’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. ”Enter the former Entreprenr Stunt of the Year (honorable mentn): What saved Gay was nng and growg her new bety servic bs.