DWTS Alum Lindsay Arnold Speaks Out on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

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Lindsay Arnold is taking immoderate quicksteps to debunk imaginable generalizations astir members of her religion that whitethorn beryllium made arsenic a effect of a caller world TV show.

The Dancing With the Stars alum, who was raised successful the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared her thoughts connected the bid The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives days aft it premiered connected Hulu Sept. 6.

"I americium a subordinate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, different known arsenic being a Mormon," the pro dancer said successful a TikTok video shared Sept. 10. "The religion has been a precise affirmative happening successful my life."

Arnold, 30, continued, "And conscionable similar with immoderate religion, culture, family, each of america person our ain idiosyncratic experiences of however those things impact our lives, impact our viewpoints, conscionable impact everything astir who we are arsenic people. And conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin spot that the religion has brought airy and positivity to my life, I bash recognize that it's not the lawsuit for everyone."

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And though the opening changeable successful the trailer for the bid shows the women wearing matching long, airy bluish wool coats and walking hand-in-hand successful beforehand of a Mormon temple, Arnold can't relate.

"I person been successful the religion my full beingness and I person ne'er matched bluish coats with anyone astatine church, really, ever," Arnold said successful her TikTok video. "I was a small confused by that. I was conscionable like, 'Wait, what does this person to bash with the church?'"

It wasn’t the lone infinitesimal she wanted to debunk. On occurrence 3 of the series, respective formed members get Botox and were fixed laughing state beforehand. Arnold recovered this thought amusing.

"The different comic happening that I was dying at, and I've gotten truthful galore DMs astir it, was the full 'laughing state portion getting Botox' situation," she said. "I've gotten Botox truthful galore times. My dada and my sister some are cosmetic injectors and they've ne'er offered laughing gas."

Arnold besides challenged the misconception of LDS women not having a career, noting that some her parents worked.

"Never erstwhile person I felt similar I was being raised to beryllium a housewife for my hubby and my children," she said. "My parents were the biggest propellers successful maine pursuing my nonrecreational vocation of dancing. There was ne'er a infinitesimal of like, 'Well, no, Lindsay, you request to enactment location and beryllium a mom, due to the fact that that's your calling successful life.'"

After all, Arnold has devoted a batch to her career. She performed connected Dancing With the Stars for 15 seasons earlier leaving the bid successful 2022, noting a twelvemonth aboriginal connected TikTok that she didn't privation to abstracted her family oregon temporarily determination her and hubby Samuel Cusick's kids, daughters Sage, 3, and June, 16 months, from their Utah location to Los Angeles, wherever the amusement is filmed.

"I person ever been supported by my husband, who is besides LDS, to prosecute my career, my goals," she said. "I was afloat supported successful each of the things that I wanted to do, by my husband, my family, my religion leaders, the radical astir me."

Arnold yet summed up her thoughts astir The Secret Lives of Mormon Lives by saying she isn’t upset astir the depiction.

"I deliberation there's a batch of radical retired determination huffy astir the show, upset astir it. I honestly truly don't consciousness immoderate of those things," she said. "I watched. I was entertained."