Exposing secrets she once held sacred, Bad Mormon is an unfiltered look at the religion that broke her heart.Ī revealing and ultimately hopeful memoir, Bad Mormon is a captivating read in the vein of Untamed, Educated, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. With writing that is beautiful, sad, funny, and true, Heather recounts the difficult discovery of the darkness and damage that often exists behind a picture-perfect life, while examining the nuanced relationship between duty to self and duty to God. But her life as a good Mormon abruptly ended when she lost the marriage and faith that she had once believed would last forever. She attended Brigham Young University, served a mission in France, and married into Mormon royalty in the temple.

Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, she is unafraid to blaze a new trail, even if it means losing family, friends, and her community.īorn and bred to be devout, Heather based her life around her faith. Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is famous for speaking the gospel truth. (Feb.Named one of Entertainment Tonight’s Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2023Īs seen in The New York Times, People, The Cut, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Today, Bustle, Us Weekly, Life & Style, and Interviewĭrinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood.

Real Housewives disciples will relish these unfiltered revelations. Gay’s narrative is by turns cheeky (“In the name of the Father, the Son, and Andy Cohen”) and reflective (“There is real sorrow for the lost years and a general heaviness that weighs on my heart when I think of the past”), and even when discussing her struggles, she writes with self-deprecating humor.

For most of her adulthood, Gay writes, she didn’t question her faith, but after her decades-long marriage ended in divorce, she felt isolated from her community and realized how Mormonism encouraged its followers to “suffer silently.” When Gay was asked to join the Real Housewives franchise, though, it was a “rebirth”: “For the first time in my life, someone wanted me for all that I brought to the table.” By the show’s second season, Gay had left the church and formed bonds with new friends and supporters. Born in Carmel, Calif., to devout Mormon parents, Gay moved with her family to Utah before her freshman year at Brigham Young University. Bad Mormon: A Memoir Hardcover 1 April 2023 by Heather Gay (Author) 745 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 22.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 43.50 15 New from 38.18 Paperback 24.00 2 New from 24.00 Audio CD 53.00 4 New from 53.00 Great on Kindle Great Experience. In this spicy debut, Gay, a fan favorite on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, recounts her life and how it was changed by being cast in the reality show.

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