Aspyn Ovard Opens up About Divorce, Family and Mormon Wives Show
WHO:
Page Six - Parker Ferris is 31; Ovard’s father struggled with alcoholism and died from it.
Page Six - Ovard’s partners are Bri and Billy Davis; she said she met Bri on social media.
Variety - Aspyn Ovard is an influencer and cast member of *The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County*; she said she does not identify as Mormon.
The Cut - Ovard is 30 and has made online content since she was 14; she has more than 5 million followers across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
Variety - Ovard’s ex-husband, Parker Ferris, is the father of her children and was willing to discuss their marriage on the show.
The Cut - Ovard and Ferris have three children. One of their daughters has terminal cancer, a diagnosis Ovard disclosed on the show.
Variety - Ovard described her current relationship as a stable, healthy and fulfilling “throuple” involving another married couple.
The Cut - Ovard supported castmate Jen Affleck, who filed for divorce and was pregnant during the divorce process.
WHAT:
Page Six - Ovard said she and Ferris were “on the same page” about drinking and smoking when they married.
Page Six - Ovard said her daughter’s cancer diagnosis emerged nearly four years earlier; she later described Cove as a “walking miracle” because children with her type of cancer rarely survive as long as she has.
Page Six - Ovard shared photos of Cove’s hospital visits and said she had celebrated three birthdays after fearing Cove might not reach her fourth birthday.
Page Six - Ovard said she took her three-month-old daughter to Mexico to try to fulfill Cove’s dreams, describing the family as “always racing against time.”
Page Six - Ovard and Ferris argued about Cove’s diagnosis in the show’s premiere; Ovard accused Ferris of “nitpicking” her parenting to distract himself from grief.
Page Six - Ovard said discovering Ferris had been drinking secretly was “literally earth-shattering” and hurt especially because she learned of it two months after her father died from alcoholism.
Page Six - Ferris said Ovard had warned him they would divorce if he drank; he said he chose to drink because it was “fun.”
Page Six - Ovard said her father’s work boots coming home were “a dark cloud over the house,” because she knew him only when he was at some level of intoxication.
Page Six - Ovard said her daughter’s illness emerged suddenly and that doctors told her the child’s terminal cancer could take her life within a month.
US Magazine - Ovard filed for divorce on the day she gave birth to the couple’s third child.
The Cut - Ovard said filming reality TV meant she could “just show up” and live her life, unlike producing her own online content, which often involved doing “100 percent of the work.”
The Cut - Ovard said she believed castmates who told her they supported her, despite what she described as a tension between their personal views and the Mormon church’s lack of support for or recognition of gay marriage.
Variety - *The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County* is a Hulu spinoff of the Utah-based franchise.
The Cut - Ovard’s divorce storyline includes a “ten-year secret”: Ferris had been drinking and hiding it from her.
The Cut - Ovard said the secret was not the reason she divorced Ferris; she said they “just are not each other’s people.”
Variety - Ovard said she still has “so much love for Parker.”
Variety - Ovard said the show’s production was organized and streamlined, and that she could be authentic while filming.
The Cut - The show does not include a “DadTok” segment; Ovard said most husbands did not want to appear on camera, and production had heard viewers disliked DadTok on the original show.
WHERE:
The Cut - Ovard grew up in St. George, Utah.
Variety - The original *Secret Lives of Mormon Wives* franchise is Utah-based; the spinoff is set in Orange County.
WHEN:
Page Six - Ovard said she and Ferris married in 2015.
WHY:
Variety - Ovard said she married young in a small-town culture where marrying her first boyfriend at 19 seemed normal, and that Utah culture shaped her life despite not identifying as Mormon.
The Cut - Ovard said she was not aware of what had happened in her marriage until she was already in the divorce process.
HOW:
The Cut - Ovard built an online following with day-in-the-life videos about subjects including her nose job and her children’s births.
Variety - Ovard said she helped Affleck through her divorce by accompanying her to a divorce attorney; she described divorce, especially while pregnant, as lonely.
(UPDATED November 13, 2026 22:00 UTC)
Aspyn Ovard has shared her daughter’s terminal cancer diagnosis and family struggles on reality television. She says her ex-husband secretly drank for years, though it wasn’t why they divorced. Ovard now describes her relationship with another married couple as stable and fulfilling.
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(UPDATED November 13, 2026 19:01 UTC)
Aspyn Ovard says her ex-husband secretly drank, a painful discovery tied to her father’s alcoholism. She says the secret wasn’t why they divorced; they simply weren’t right for each other. On Hulu’s Orange County reality show, Ovard also revealed their daughter has terminal cancer.
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(UPDATED November 13, 2026 13:59 UTC)
Influencer Aspyn Ovard joins Hulu’s Orange County spinoff, despite not identifying as Mormon. On the show, she reveals her daughter’s terminal cancer diagnosis and discusses divorce. Ovard says filming feels more authentic, while she supports pregnant castmate Jen Affleck through divorce.
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(UPDATED November 13, 2026 02:02 UTC)
Influencer Aspyn Ovard reveals her daughter has terminal cancer on Hulu’s Orange County spinoff. She says her ex-husband’s hidden drinking wasn’t why they divorced; they simply weren’t right together. Ovard, who doesn’t identify as Mormon, describes her current relationship as a healthy throuple.