Who is influencer Mikayla Matthews who starred in The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives?

THE Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives has got everyone talking.

One person who has seen her fanbase grow thanks to the show about the famous MomTok crew , is influencer Mikayla Matthews.

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Born in California on March 17, 2000, Mikayla is an influencer and reality star.

As a child, her parents moved to Salt Lake City and she grew up in a Mormon family .

The social media star is best known for being an original member of the TikTok group, MomTok, and being one of the cast of The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives .

Before finding fame as an influencer, Mikayla claimed to be working as a nanny for a millionaire couple .

Social media stardom

Mikayla launched her TikTok channel in January 2020, and now has nearly 3million followers.

The content creator posts videos about her everyday life, often involving her children.

On her Instagram handle mikayla__matt she has over 450,000 followers (all stats correct as of September 2024).

Family life

Mikayla is happily married to her husband Jace Terry, and together they have three children – Beckham, Haven and Tommie.

The couple – who have an age gap of five years – met when she was 16, and he was 21.

In a TikTok video from 2021, Mikayla opened up about being a mom of three by the time she turned 24.

Speaking to fans she said: “I moved out of my mom’s house and in with my sister when I was 15 years old.

“I met a guy when I was 16 at a very low point in my life.

“I found out I was pregnant after less than a month of knowing each other.

“I decided to keep the baby, told him, and he was 110% supportive and we went from there.”

The reality star continued, “I finished high school online and suffered from depression throughout my entire pregnancy .

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“I had my son and he was the best thing to ever happen to me.

“I married my now-husband when our son was 6 months old.”

After they had their eldest Beckham, they then welcomed Haven who was followed by their second daughter, and third child, Tommie.

Some of Mikayla’s most popular TikTok videos feature her surprising her son, Beckham, with food.

In August 2024, she told her fans how her husband Jace had lost his job because of the couple taking part in The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives .

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Celebrity lookalike

Mikayla is constantly getting mistaken for a very famous Gossip Girl star.

This is because she is the spitting image of actress Leighton Meester .

Speaking about fans saying she looks like Blair from GG, Mikayla told People : “I’ve gotten it before. So when I first started TikTok back in the beginning of 2020, I’d get it all the time.

“Even now when I meet people, they’re like, ‘Oh wow, you’re Leighton [Meester],’ or ‘You look just like Blair’.”

But Mikayla loves the comparison, and added: “I’m trying to manifest a meetup!”

Health battle

Behind-the-scenes of The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, the star battles a mystery chronic illness, which doctors can’t get to the bottom of.

Her ongoing health battle often sees her skin break out in red blotches.

Speaking to Us Weekly , Mikayla said: “Haven’t found any answers yet.

“Still doing more testing. I just got a biopsy done yesterday.

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“I’m going to go to a cancer institute and get tested for different blood cancers.”

She added: “I’m a lot better than I was, but I still have my ups and downs, so it’s just frustrating to not get any answers and feel like I’m on my own and then have to navigate being in this really exciting time while not feeling my best,

“And so that’s kind of been the trickiest.”

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Info

Hulu's newest reality series, which follows a group of #MomTok influencers, was released on Sepetmber 6.

• According to the show’s official synopsis , the series follows the “scandalous world of a group of Mormon mom influencers implodes when they get caught in the midst of a swinging sex scandal that makes international headlines.”
• The scandal began in 2022 after MomTok frontrunner Taylor Frankie Paul revealed she was divorcing her ex-husband, Tate Paul.
• During a TikTok livestream, Taylor shared with her followers that the divorce was prompted by his involvement in “soft swinging” among the MomTok community.
• Taylor said she and Tate agreed they wouldn’t “go all the way” with the other members.
• “The whole group was intimate with each other,” she said, adding, “Tate has made out with several girls and other things, and I’ve made out with all of the husbands and vice versa.”
• Two months after the news went viral, Taylor revealed the man she “cheated with” was her new boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen .
• The series stars Taylor, Jen Affleck , Layla Taylor, Demi Engemann, Mayci Neeley, Jessi Ngatikaura, Mikayla Matthews, and Whitney Leavitt .