Why Aspyn Ovard Is Taking Social Media Break Amid Mormon Wives Debut
SLOMWOC’s Aspyn Ovard Reveals 10-Year Secret Amid Parker Ferris Split
Aspyn Ovard is protecting her peace.
Ahead of the Nov. 12 premiere of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, the YouTuber announced she was stepping back from social media, admitting how difficult it was to see the aspects of her life she’d previously kept private on the Hulu series.
“This week will be really hard for me,” Ovard wrote on her Instagram Stories Nov. 10. “I’m saying goodbye to the internet being the last piece of normalcy that i’ve had in my life for the last few years.”
“It’s very heavy and after today im taking the rest of the week off,” she continued, “maybe longer but i’ll need a break and i hope the world is gentle with my story.”
The 30-year-old—mom to daughters Cove, 7, Lola, 5, and Elle, 2, with ex-husband Parker Ferris—shared her statement alongside a screenshot of a direct message from a fan after they reacted to a selfie she posted on her Stories.
“Sweet girl you look sad,” the fan wrote, “sending you so much love and strength always but particularly this week.”
In the debut episode of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives spinoff, the YouTuber publicly shared for the first time that one of her and Ferris’ daughters was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“Everything happened so, just out of nowhere,” Ovard said through tears in the show’s first episode. “One day she was OK, and then the next day she wasn't.”
“At the hospital, you're like, ‘It has to be fine,’” she added to the Hulu cameras. “You can't fathom that they're actually going to tell you that your baby has cancer, and that it's terminal. She could be gone in a month, we don't know. I've been living like that for over three years, just having no idea.”
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But before receiving the devastating news, Ovard and Ferris were already struggling in their marriage of eight years, with the reality star admitting that they “weren’t even going to make it through” prior to learning their daughter’s diagnosis.
“It was just so toxic and hard,” she recalled. "And through all of it, I feel like I still tried to take care of him because I know how hard he's grieving.”
To learn more about Ovard—who is now in a throuple with Bri Davis and her husband Billy Davis—and her Mormon Wives: OC costars, keep reading…
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