Read A Preview of RHOSLC Heather Gay's New Memoir, 'Bad Mormon'

Contents:

• HEATHER GAY
• HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
• BOOK LNCH: BAD MORMON BY HEATHER GAY
• RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY RELLS HOW SHE MET JEN SHAH: BIGGT REVELATNS FROM ‘BAD MORMON’
• BOOK LAUNCH: BAD MORMON BY HEATHER GAY
• RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'
• EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR
• REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY STAR HEATHER GAY WROTE A BOOK
• 'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH
• RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'
• HEATHER GAY HAS SOME INCREDIBLE PIEC STASHED INSI HER CLOSET: TAKE A LOOK
• RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY SHAR REGRET AMID FD WH WHNEY ROSE, PL TALKS SUPPORTG JEN SHAH AFTER GUILTY PLEA, AND NEW MEMOIR

HEATHER GAY

Will Heather Gay do a book tour?

Born and bred to be vout, Heather Gay based her life around her Mormon fah.

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

From missn trips to attendg Brigham Young Universy to marryg to church royalty, Gay did everythg expected of a “good Mormon. 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.

BOOK LNCH: BAD MORMON BY HEATHER GAY

When The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy premiered 2020, Heather Gay was an immediate fan favore for her self-pretg w and everywoman relatabily.

RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY RELLS HOW SHE MET JEN SHAH: BIGGT REVELATNS FROM ‘BAD MORMON’

(I even had pneer anctors datg back to 1856, jt like the on Gay proudly referenced her Season 1 tagle.

BOOK LAUNCH: BAD MORMON BY HEATHER GAY

)And jt like Gay, I also grappled wh a paful, yearslong procs of breakg wh anctral tradn and leavg the church.

Realy TV memoirs are a ttage dtry wh varyg gre of lerary mer, but Gay’s book has major stak: In tracg her journey om aspirg hoewife to pal-H Hoewife, she wr about Mormonism’s sacred ruals manner that is not only grounds for exmunitn the church but also risks ostracizatn om the entire muny she held ar for so long.

RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'

“There was no gray area, no between, ” Gay, 48, wr the book. ”Below, Gay opens up redisverg herself outsi of the church, how Mormonism still rms her life, and where she stands wh her surprised you most while you were lookg back at your life through this book?

EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR

” You did that tryg to live up the standards of righteons and perfectn that make a “good” Mormon, and that’s what I did for so long, too, beg gay and closeted at don’t work. Heather Gay is a star of Bravo’s The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy and the founr of Bety Lab + Laser, an novative smetic medil practice based Salt Lake Cy wh s own behd-the-scen podst Live Love Lab.

REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY STAR HEATHER GAY WROTE A BOOK

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.

'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH

We have secrets that spo keep om each other, hbands never disclosed certa oaths to their wiv, ” Gay ntu. 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.

RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'

”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?

HEATHER GAY HAS SOME INCREDIBLE PIEC STASHED INSI HER CLOSET: TAKE A LOOK

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.

RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY SHAR REGRET AMID FD WH WHNEY ROSE, PL TALKS SUPPORTG JEN SHAH AFTER GUILTY PLEA, AND NEW 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. Gay creds her edorial assistant, John Jard, for helpg her fd her voice the wrg procs.

"Why she voted a sectn to each of the origal ‘RHOSLC’ hoewivIn “Bad Mormon, ” Gay vot a portn to each of her fellow Season One "RHOSLC, " hoewiv — Meredh Marks, Lisa Barlow, Mary M.

Cosby, Whney Rose and Jen Shah — offerg an unvarnished and often posive mentary on what each brought to the many realy televisn stars e their memoirs to throw sha at their on-screen fo, Gay took a different approach. ”Out of the OG "RHOSLC" hoewiv, Gay shar that she’d be most exced to read a memoir om Cosby, sayg would be “beyond wild. “(If Cosby wrote a memoir), I would vour , ” Gay memoir she’d be least exced to read?

It would probably not be raw and vulnerable, which are two of my thgs that I like to read a book, ” Gay addrs other ‘Hoewiv’ hot topics and her tentn for the futureLike any good Real Hoewife, Gay knows how to keep her name the prs … and on the lips of other recently told TV Deets that she would love to see Season Three stmate Angie Harrgton holdg a snowflake for Season Four of "RHOSLC. " Harrgton has been around sce Season One of the show’ but never has snagged an official "hoewife" signatn, which Gay tells is bee “she’s very nice, and she’s very acmodatg.

Gay ed a stir after she unfollowed Teddi Mellenmp (formerly of “The Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills”) and Tamra Judge (“The Real Hoewiv of Orange County”), who host the podst “Two T’s a Pod wh Teddi Mellenmp and Tamra Judge.

” Durg a December 2022 episo, the pair noted that Gay “officially unfollowed” them, which Mellenmp emed “a shame. ” Judge said that they had a good time wh Gay when they met at says there's no story here.

I have no beef, ” she that squashed and three seasons of ”‘RHOSLC” unr her belt, the qutn aris: What’s to e Gay’s next chapter?