Updated March 18, 2026 — 7:29pm,first published 7:00pm You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Something is happening with the tradwives of America. The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives – who rose to fame by peddling the traditionalist lifestyle to a new generation via social media and are now the “it girls” of America’s Christian cultural zeitgeist – appear to be having a crisis of faith. From the outside, the reality television stars are the embodiment of what a traditional wife should be. They married young and had kids early, they deferred to their husbands, maintained extraordinary standards of beauty, rarely raised their voices, mostly followed the teachings of their church and worked tirelessly to make it all look easy.…