Whitney Leavitt Wasn’t Trying to Be a Reality-TV Villain

At first glance, the star of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Hulu’s new series about a group of TikTok moms in Salt Lake City, Utah, was Taylor Frankie Paul. She’s the one who “started” MomTok and revealed to the world that some of its members were “soft swinging” with one another back in 2022. But as the season progressed, a challenger emerged: Whitney Leavitt, the only MomToker brave enough to rock a bob in a sea of waist-length hair extensions.

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