Not holding again. Heather Gay is the latest Real Housewife to add “author” to her resume — and she wasn’t afraid to bare it all.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star, 48, launched her first memoir, Bad Mormon, on Tuesday, February 7. The book covers everything from her youth and post-college stint as a missionary to her marriage to ex-husband Billy Gay.
“No one’s ever requested me to write my story before, and so when the opportunity came up, I jumped at it,” the Bravo persona exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the book’s release. “But I actually felt find it irresistible was essential if I used to be going to damage the legacy of generations earlier than me, I sought after to be sure that I told it with my voice, with my enjoy, from my perspective … and that I left no stone unturned. And it felt like the one way to do that was with a book.”
In the memoir, the truth celebrity details her upbringing in the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints and her subsequent resolution to step back from the religion. When she made up our minds to enroll in RHOSLC, she consulted her bishop about the series — and he informed her not to sign on.
“Don’t do it,” Heather recalled him telling her within the book. “It’s no longer worth it. And should you do, you'll want to elevate around a tumbler of milk while you’re at parties with alcohol.”
The Beauty Lab + Laser founder thought to be his phrases for a month, however she sooner or later made up our minds to make her personal possible choices. “One day, in an instant, I spotted that I didn’t need to do what the bishop stated,” she wrote. “I may just do no matter I wanted. I wasn’t beholden to him or every other man. And maybe he used to be mistaken. Maybe God wanted me to walk round parties with a martini as a substitute of milk.”
While much of Bad Mormon takes position sooner than Heather become a Real Housewife, there are still a couple of juicy anecdotes about her RHOSLC castmates. The first time she frolicked with Whitney Rose one-on-one was when the Wild Rose Beauty founder, 36, enlisted her because the photographer for a boudoir photo shoot.
The esthetician and her cousin have been as soon as thick as thieves — earning themselves the nickname Bad Weather — but Heather advised Us that they’re still currently on the “friendship break” that began during season 3 of RHOSLC.
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“I think that is truly how Whitney wants it to be,” Heather defined. “She needs to be on her own. She doesn’t want to really feel obligation or loyalty, and I’m kind of an obligation-loyalty lady. So, I don’t know. I don’t see any stormy weather for unhealthy weather. I believe it’s clear skies from right here on out. She’s doing her factor and I’ll do mine.”
Keep scrolling for the biggest revelations from Heather’s memoir, Bad Mormon:
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