The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars gave a uncommon joint interview on The Viall Information Wednesday and dropped some main bombshells about their relationship — together with how their second child was conceived.

“We had one after which a second child back-to-back. Jen — like, six months after she gave start — she acquired pregnant once more along with her second child,” he stated earlier than claiming, “I acquired tricked into it. She took out her IUD with out telling me.”

Zac recalled that time frame as a “tense” one for the couple and stated it was earlier than they entered remedy. Jen, in the meantime, thought the the revelation about her second being pregnant was humorous, including, “Whoopsies, I forgot to let you know [I took my IUD out].”

The couple are at present anticipating their third child, which additionally got here as a shock to the pair, with Jen studying she was pregnant after the pair reunited throughout a short separation, as seen on the second season of SLOMW.

Whereas the pair are again collectively now, Jen instructed Viall she was very a lot critical about the potential for ending their marriage.

“I mainly instructed him after I was in a spot the place I need to stroll away from the connection, ‘I am doing this. That is what I really feel proper about. You may come together with me. You may help me on this or you may stroll away,’” she recalled. “I used to be not against divorce. I used to be actually doing what I felt was proper. Due to that, I really feel like our relationship has by no means been stronger as a result of I’ve discovered my voice and I am nonetheless within the means of that.”

Elsewhere within the podcast, the couple touched on their funds, with an alleged playing habit and Zac’s medical faculty being a significant plotline for the pair.

“My medical faculty tuition — that by no means occurred,” Zac defined, addressing claims that he had gambled away funds put aside for his education. “I hadn’t even been accepted to medical faculty when that season was filmed. There wasn’t even a deposit to pay for varsity as a result of I hadn’t been accepted into a faculty but. So loads of these issues that had been stated by the ladies had been hurtful and unfaithful and has led to loads of backlash on social media, which has been actually unhappy.”

Jen, nevertheless, pushed again on Zac’s model of occasions, significantly concerning claims she hadn’t supplied to cowl his medical faculty prices.

“It was my plan. I had a dialog along with your mother and father and stated, ‘I want to pay for med faculty,’” she acknowledged, to which Zac replied, “I do not need to argue that. The fact is my dad had saved up a bunch of cash. He needed to assist pay for that. He had saved that cash apart.”

Zac additional clarified that he by no means obtained these funds immediately.

“He immediately paid that to the varsity. That was by no means cash I ever noticed or touched. That was immediately from him to the varsity. Then as soon as I withdrew from medical faculty, that wasn’t cash I acquired to maintain,” he maintained.

As for the remainder of their funds, along with the cash produced from MomTok and the present, Zac stated within the early days of their relationship, he supported their household by being a door-to-door salesman.

“The tremendous widespread factor in Utah is the place each summer time youngsters exit from Utah to completely different states and so they promote pest management or alarms door to door,” he defined. “Individuals make a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} in a summer time. I’ve buddies who’re millionaires simply promoting pest management door to door. That is what I used to be doing to offer for our household early on.”

“It nonetheless typically makes me insecure. Generally I am at dwelling on a random Tuesday as a stay-at-home dad or I am on the trampoline park with my two youngsters and I’m like, ‘What the hell am I doing with my life?’” he admitted of his profession trajectory after taking a step again from med faculty. “I am grateful that that’s even a risk. I nonetheless suppose I need to work out what I need to do. However again at the moment, it was actually exhausting as a result of this dynamic had switched.”

Sharing their relationship and their Mormon beliefs with the world has been troublesome, nevertheless it’s one thing Jen says she felt “referred to as” to do.

“Generally you simply really feel referred to as to one thing and you may’t clarify why,” Jen detailed. “It isn’t simple being weak as a Mormon and displaying what truly occurs typically in Mormon relationships. I really feel like we’re doing the exhausting factor, however doing the appropriate factor by exposing what truly occurs.”

She continued, “Hopefully folks throughout the Mormon tradition can take a look at our relationship and mirror on theirs and say like, ‘Hey, I feel we sort of wrestle with that, too.’ Or, ‘Possibly my husband has fed into the patriarchy and is not treating me proper.’ I need to be an instance of that.”

Seasons 1 and a pair of of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are at present streaming on Hulu.