Pregnant with her fourth child with Zac Affleck, Jen tells Yahoo: "Pray for my co-parenting relationship."


Jen and Zac Affleck. (Fred Hayes/Disney via Getty Images)

Jen Affleck is focused on her children and her co-parenting future after filing for divorce from Zac Affleck.

"All I can say is that it's been a really hard week, and I'm trying to navigate everything in the best way possible," the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star tells Yahoo. "And yeah, I just am trying to just focus on my kids. And although this is really hard for me, it's also really hard for them."

Jen, who is pregnant with her and Zac's fourth child, filed for divorce on Nov. 3. They share daughters Nora, 5, and Penelope, 1, and son Luca, 3. The 27-year-old announced in June that they were expecting their fourth child.

As she navigates the split, Jen says her priority is helping their children through it and finding a way to parent alongside Zac.

"[I'm] doing the best that I can to just show up for them and do what's best," she says. "Pray for my co-parenting relationship and that everything can be cordial and we can move forward as a team. And that's what I'm trying to focus on."

The news came a week before the Nov. 12 premiere of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County. Cameras pick up with Jen at a crossroads in her marriage, a relationship viewers have followed through its ups and downs over five seasons since the original series premiered in 2024.

Jen and Zac met through the Mormon dating app Mutual in 2018 and married in June 2019. Their disagreements became one of the Utah show's most talked-about storylines, beginning with a Las Vegas trip during which Zac objected to Jen potentially attending a Chippendales show. They briefly separated before Jen announced she was pregnant with her third child.

Jen's plans for her career have also been a sticking point. After competing on Dancing With the Stars in 2025, she wanted to try acting, produce music and possibly pose for Sports Illustrated. Zac wasn't on board with that idea. And when it came to acting, Jen claimed Zac had told her he would divorce her if she took a role involving an onscreen romance.

The new series arrives as viewers learn about the end of Jen's marriage. For her, it's also a chance to share more of what led up to this moment.

"I just think that people are going to potentially understand me more as a person," she says. "I think people have seen bits and pieces throughout all seasons, and bits and pieces that would grab people's attention or, you know, get people talking."

The spinoff introduces a new circle of mothers and influencers in Southern California building their own version of MomTok. As in the Utah series, faith is central to the group's identity and a source of friction as the women navigate different ideas about marriage, independence and which traditions they want to carry forward.

For Jen, joining that group means letting viewers into another particularly personal chapter.

"I feel like this season really is just me sharing everything and being super vulnerable, and it's all real and raw and my — yeah, just my real life," she says. "And so hopefully people can either learn or resonate from it."

Zac has also addressed the split publicly and claimed he learned about the divorce from TMZ. Speaking to People in a story published on Nov. 5, he said he would "always be Jen's supporter."

"Hope she is happy in this next phase of life," Zac said, adding that he is "just focusing on my kids and figuring out what's next for me."

After Zac publicly commented on the news of her divorce filing, Jen shared videos showing some of the criticism she faced at home. In a TikTok posted Nov. 5, which Jen said was filmed two weeks postpartum, Zac comments on her body and questions whether she should post a video of herself in their kitchen. Jen captioned the clip, "He was never my biggest supporter," seemingly pushing back on his statement.

Zac claimed the footage was from 2022 and called his remarks "obviously horrible." He added that he had said hurtful things but had tried to learn from them.

"I married my dream girl, and I messed it up," he wrote on Nov. 6. "Jen, I'm sorry. I was supposed to protect your heart and I failed."

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