Vanessa Rigoriadis
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For the past few years, there's been nothing more popular than Mormon wives in our culture.
From the real housewives of Salt Lake City to the secret lives of Mormon wives to the huge blow up over The Bachelorette casting the star of that show, Taylor Frankie Paul.
There's just something about Utah and religion and femininity that has captured our cultural imagination.
And the massive irony is that whether they're soft swinging, whatever that means, or being accused of assault or scamming, there is something we just love about these women pretending to be so virtuous, only to find out it's just not true.
I mean, everyone eats that up.
Of course we do.
So we're about to focus on one of the most extreme stories of irony in this arena.
Even maybe more extreme than Taylor Frankie Paul being accused of domestic violence, though we'll get into that in a later episode as well.
And that is the story of the one and only Jen Shaw.
You may have seen that Jen gave an interview on
very recently, and she is trying to defend herself.
I understand that people have their opinion and their feelings because they are basing it off of what they saw in the media.
They're basing it off of the headlines.
But what I would hope is that they would give me the grace to at least hear me and to understand that, you
But right now, we're going to go behind these headlines to find out what Jen was actually doing and speak to some of the people who were victimized by her.
And you may think you know the story of Jen Shaw's scams, or at least the broad strokes.
She's a real housewife.
She got arrested for it.