Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Jen Affleck On DWTS Postpartum & Taylor Swift Connection Ft. Jen Affleck

Mention It All

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On this week’s video episode, Dylan is joined by Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star and Dancing With The Stars contestant Jen Affleck for an open and honest conversation about her postpartum journey. From dancing on countertops to perfecting the Cha Cha Cha, Jen opens up about how DWTS became the light at the end of her tunnel. She breaks down her surprising Taylor Swift connection through dancer Jan Ravnik, the reality of raising a family while filming two massive shows back to back, and how manifestation played a role in landing her dream ballroom moment. Go to the BravoByBetches YouTube page to watch full length episodes every Tuesday: Youtube.com/@BravoByBetches Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the Mention It All podcast.
0:08.0	I am thrilled to be joined today by another one of our beloved secret lives of Mormon
0:13.1	Wives Ladies.
0:13.9	And of course, she is now also on Dancing with the Stars, Jen Affleck.
0:18.7	Hello.
0:19.4	Hello.
0:20.2	How's it going?
0:22.4	You've been very busy these last, this last yearck, hello. Hello. How's it going? You've been very busy these last,
0:28.2	this last year, I guess. Yes. It doesn't stop. It's just, you know what? When your mom,
0:33.3	it also doesn't stop. So it's just all, it's all the same. Yeah, you have really been, like,
0:40.7	pounding the pavement this last year. I was thinking it's September now. And you guys premiered in September of last year, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 1. Nobody knew what to expect. You've already
0:46.8	shot two more seasons. One of them has aired. You've had a child in that time. Now you're doing
0:53.0	Dancing with the Stars premiering this week.
0:55.6	Have you been able to take a step back at all and kind of look at like this last year of whirlwind
1:01.5	of your life? Honestly, not fully. Like every single day I wake up and I'm like, what is going on?
1:08.2	Like, oh my gosh. Like I can't believe this is happening.
1:12.2	I'm going on dancing the stars.
1:15.7	Yeah, it's hard to find time to take it all in.
1:16.1	Yeah.
1:16.9	To take it all in.
1:22.8	Going back to when you guys first started to make Mormon wives, like, the first season, did you have, like, a vision that this all was going to kind of like snowball or what was your kind of
1:29.7	goal going in? I was expecting the show to do great. I wasn't expecting it to do this good, to be
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