Ben Affleck’s cousin Zac is set to make his reality TV debut in upcoming Hulu series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives with his wife Jen, Cosmopolitan reports. In 2022, a group of young Mormon wives and mothers blew up on TikTok under the #MomTok hashtag, going viral when the group’s founder – Taylor Frankie Paul – admitted she was getting a divorce from her husband as a result of their “soft swinging” lifestyle. Now the swinging scandal is hitting our screens – and it turns out Zac Affleck’s wife Jen is part of #MomTok too.
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Photo: @zacaffleck/Instagram Ahead of the show’s September release, Jen told People that she would be talking about her relationship in the series and “it feels like we got 10 years of marriage counselling in this one season of filming”. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Zac Affleck and his wife are Mormons.
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jpg"} Zac Affleck and his wife are Mormons. Photo: @jenniferlaffleck/Instagram Here’s what we know about Ben Affleck’s lesser-known family member: Zac Affleck hails from Utah {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Zac Affleck grew up in Utah.
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jpg"} Zac Affleck grew up in Utah. Photo: @zacaffleck/Instagram As reported by InTouch, Zac Affleck was born and raised in Utah, where he played baseball for Olympus High School in his youth. The same source adds that he graduated from Brigham Young University.
He was accepted into medical school {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Earlier this year, Zac Affleck graduated from medical school at Brigham Young University. Photo: @jenniferlaffleck/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @jenniferlaffleck/Instagram In July, Zac’s wife Jennifer announced that he had graduated from Brigham Young and had been accepted into medical school. “It’s been a long and challenging journey with two little ones, but we did it! I couldn’t be prouder of you and all the hard work you’ve put in. Excited for this new adventure that awaits!” she wrote in a caption on IG.
Zac Affleck’s wife is a TikTok star Jen Affleck, 25, is a social media star with over a million followers on TikTok and nearly 200,000 on Instagram. As noted by Us Weekly, Zac was one of Jen’s main collaborators on TikTok before she became better known for her #MomTok videos, and he’s been making sweet cameos on her page since 2020. According to InTouch, Jen and Zac started dating in 2018, and have been married since 2019.
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Photo: @zacaffleck/Instagram The Afflecks like to keep fit together! In November 2023, Zac opened up about how they have been running marathons together since the beginning of their relationship, in a post celebrating their New York City Marathon achievement. “Jen and I ran our first marathon within weeks of starting to date. Running this with now two children and having them there to cheer us on was surreal.
I’m so proud of Jen and so grateful for the opportunity we had to experience this together,” he wrote in his caption on Instagram. Zac and Jen Affleck share two children together {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Zac and Jen Affleck with their young children Nora and Lucas.
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jpg"} Zac and Jen Affleck with their young children Nora and Lucas. Photo: @jenniferlaffleck/Instagram As reported by Us Weekly, the couple welcomed their first child, daughter Nora, in November 2021, and had their second, a son named Lucas Lowell, in July 2023. Have Zac or Jen Affleck talked about their famous relatives? {"@context":"https://schema.
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In September 2023, Jen Affleck reportedly joked about wanting to be the next Jennifer Lopez . “But instead ..
. she stole your name & you’re busting it down to Ms. Rachel,” she wrote over a video of herself dancing to “Wheels on the Bus”.
“Can’t forget that Ben Affleck is my husband’s second cousin,” she added in the caption. What is The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives about? As stated in the show’s Hulu bio, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows the “scandalous world of a group of Mormon mom influencers” who were caught in a “swinging sex scandal” that went viral. It’s unclear whether Zac and Jennifer discuss their distantly-related famous family members – and their recent marriage woes – in the series.
How exactly is Zac Affleck related to Ben Affleck? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Casey Affleck is the cousin of Zac Affleck’s father. Photo: AFP","url":"https://img.
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Photo: AFP According to Us Weekly, Ben and Zac are first cousins once removed, with Zac’s dad being the first cousin of Ben and his brother, Casey Affleck . Ben Affleck’s cousin Zac is set to make his reality TV debut in Hulu’s upcoming series about the #MomTok swingers scandal, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives He’ll appear on the show with his wife Jen, who’s joked that it felt like they ‘got 10 years of marriage counselling in one season of filming’.
