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Whitney Leavitt has welcomed the newest member of her MomTok community. Months after sharing her pregnancy during the show's first season , the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star confirmed the arrival of her and husband Connor Leavitt ’s third baby, a boy named Billy Gene Leavitt . "We are most excited about having our family complete," their rep told People in an Oct.
28 statement, noting they welcomed their baby on Oct. 24. "We’ve always wanted three kids and we’re so happy everyone’s here now.
" During the first season of the Hulu docuseries, Whitney found a sweet way to surprise her family with the pregnancy news, placing her positive test in a cake. However, Whitney’s surprise method was met with some not so sweet backlash as some called the action unsanitary. However, the 31-year-old clapped back at the suggestion.
“I get how people were li ke, Ew ,” she said in an interview with The Cut published Sept . 26. “M aybe people tried to stay away and not eat the pieces surrounding the test, but the cake was good .
” Whitney and Connor’s new b undle of joy joins older siblings Sedona , 4, and Liam , 2. As to whether a fourth baby is on the horizon, she recently hinted they are done having kids , joking to E! News’ host Keltie Knight , “Tubes are tied after this.” And that’s not the only big switch-up as her and Connor’s lives have completely changed since The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debuted in September.
“We’ll go out in public and people will come say hi to us, ask for pictures. And I’m like, ‘Why?” she continued, while speaking to E! at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards last month. “It’s like we forget that we just filed a show and it just blew up bigger than what we thought it would.
” However, fan interest in the Hulu docuseries comes as no surprise considering the scandal that started it all. In 2 022, Whitney an d the rest of her castmates faced controversy after fellow MomToker , Taylor Frankie Paul , told the world that she and her then-husband Tate Paul participated in a “soft-swinging” group with other members in the Mormon M omTok community. Despite being a part of MomTok, Whitney de nied ever straying outsi de her marriage.
“I am not a swinger,” she said in a TikTok posted in May 2022. “I have never swang.” Still, as the docuseries showed, the Leavitt’s have struggled within their eight-year marriage, with the premiere episode seeing the couple emotionally discuss Connor’s struggle with porn addiction, and how he was using a tinder while married.
“I had a real problem and it turned into something that really hurt my wife and I’m so sorry” he explained while recounting the experience. “I’m working on myself.” However the duo have been able to work through their relationship struggles, with Whitney assuring fans that the couple are “in a great place.
” “It was, like, the most traumatic thing we’ve gone through in our marriage, and I feel like that was hard to share,” s he noted to E! , “but we came out stronger in the end." As to whether fans will be able to follow along with Whitney and the rest of her MomTok community in another installment, the influencer admitted she’d “be shocked” if they weren’t renewed for a season two. And though Whitney is well aware she received a bit of a villain edit, she’s trying not to get involved in the online conversation.
“I’ve actually tried to stay away from it because I know it’s been so ne gative,” she said. “I fe el like if there was more context behind decisions that I had made, it would have made more sense and made me look less villany.”.
