Angela Yang is a culture and trends reporter for NBC News.
Two years ago, a sex scandal shook the foundation of a thriving online subculture of Mormon moms. “MomTok,” an online community shaped by a group of Mormon influencers in Utah, rose to prominence on TikTok for its lifestyle and parenting content. Then, one of its main creators, Taylor Frankie Paul, announced that she and her husband were getting a divorce — revealing in the process that they’d had an open relationship and she had violated the terms.
I wasn’t even thinking straight,” Paul told NBC News. “I was in a depression as well, so I don’t even know if I was handling it. I think I was just surviving at the time, and maybe made choices that I’m not proud of today.” Her behavior caused a rift in the MomTok community. Throughout that period, Paul, who now has 4.1 million TikTok followers, continued to post about her struggles with divorce, coparenting and mental health. Paul said she is now in a better place.
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