"Sorry For Dimming Your Light": Jen Affleck’s Postpartum Video Has Flipped Her Entire Divorce Narrative, And Anyone Still Questioning Her Decision Might Want To Watch It

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Jen Affleck, 1 of the stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, amazed the satellite by filing for a divorcement from her husband, Zac Affleck, connected Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Jennifer Affleck turned somewhat to look implicit her shoulder, smiling astatine a reddish carpet event. She is wearing an off-shoulder outfit, hairsbreadth styled successful a escaped apical bun.

Zac seemingly recovered retired from a TMZ newsman who broke the news online — but that's not adjacent the commencement of the play that ensued online aft the filing.

Jennifer and Zac Affleck posing astatine an event, smiling. She wears a sparkly formal and fluffy wrapper with 1 heeled ft kicked up successful the air; helium wears a plaid suit with a roseate lapel pin

While galore fans aren't amazed by this caller improvement — having agelong seen it coming successful the amusement — it besides came wholly retired of the blue. The astir astonishing portion of the announcement is that she is large with their 4th child. The gestation was revealed conscionable 4 months ago.

Jennifer Affleck posing connected bluish carpet successful a fitted gown, holding her large belly. Background features logos of media outlets

The 2 had been joined for 7 years aft gathering connected the Mormon dating app Mutual. They starred successful the Hulu world bid for 5 seasons, wherever viewers saw the ups and downs of their relationship, including a impermanent divided successful play two.

Zac Affleck pushes a stroller portion Jen Affleck walks down him connected a metropolis street. She is wearing a sleeveless apical and jeans, helium is wearing a linen button-up and achromatic pants.

Some of the pair's conflicts look to stem from Jen's acting aspirations, which Zac has seemingly ne'er supported. He adjacent threatened to permission her if she took a romanticist acting role. Jen was connected Dancing with the Stars for the 2024-2025 play and had a tiny acting relation successful the 2025 movie Raising the Bar: The Alma Richards Story.

Two dancers execute energetically connected stage, with 1 lasting connected a level and the different leaning disconnected it

Meanwhile, Zac graduated from assemblage successful 2024 and concisely went to aesculapian schoolhouse successful New York City earlier transferring to a schoolhouse successful Arizona and yet dropping out.

Zac Affleck successful a airy suit and achromatic garment lasting indoors, with floral arrangements and stained solid successful the background.

"I consciousness similar a batch of our matrimony I made astir maine and what I privation to do," helium told Jen astatine the clip connected The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. “I don’t cognize what I americium going to bash with my life, to beryllium honest. I americium present to enactment you and enactment your career."

Cast of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" seated connected a sofa and ranged successful chairs down it, dressed successful ceremonial and semi-formal attire, successful a stylish indoor setting

However, Jen conscionable added occurrence to the speculation implicit the play by uploading a video that was recorded erstwhile she was 2 weeks postpartum. In the caption, she wrote, "He was ne'er my biggest supporter."

Jennifer Affleck astatine the "Wuthering Heights" World Premiere held astatine the TCL Chinese Theatre

In the video, Zac, off-screen, walked up arsenic Jen was signaling an "influencer" video and told her, "Your tits are sagging each over. You don’t privation to station that. I’ll archer you that close now."

your 2 weeks postpartum trying to go an influencer."

Jen laughed it disconnected and asked him, "Am I embarrassing myself?" Zac replied, "A small bit. I anticipation you wouldn’t privation to station that."

your 2 weeks postpartum trying to go an influencer."

Zac posted 2 videos successful effect to the quality that helium had been served with the divorcement papers — successful which helium revealed that helium had so recovered retired via a TMZ newsman that it was adjacent happening.

Zac Affleck from the formed of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives seen filming Season 3 connected September 17, 2025 successful West Hollywood

"It is existent that Jen filed for divorcement yesterday and it is existent that I recovered retired from a TMZ newsman astir the filing," Zac revealed successful a TikTok video. "But careless of that, this is thing we’ve been talking astir for a agelong time. Jen came to maine astir a twelvemonth agone aft Dancing with the Stars and told maine she was unhappy and wanted a divorce."

Zack Affleck wearing a casual hoodie, hood up, looking straight towards the camera successful a car.

He went connected to add, "And I fundamentally begged her to stay, told her [I would] enactment connected things, hole things, go whoever she needed maine to be, and yet conscionable we couldn’t marque it work."

Zack Affleck wearing a casual hoodie, hood up, looking up to the broadside of the camera successful a car.

The second video Zac posted is simply a bid of images and clips from their years together, and helium turned disconnected comments connected the TikTok post. In the caption, helium wrote, "Looking backmost astatine these clips hurts truthful much. I joined my imagination girl, and I messed it up."

Jen and Zac Affleck joyfully dancing astatine an outdoor café, surrounded by seated patrons.

"Jen, I'm sorry. I was expected to support your bosom and I failed. I'm atrocious for the mode I spoke to you. I'm atrocious for dimming your light. I'm atrocious I was truthful young and immature. I'm atrocious I couldn't marque the changes I needed to. And I'm atrocious I fto things get to this point," helium said.

Jen and Zac Affleck, taking a silly selfie. Jen is playfully sticking retired her lingua astatine the camera.

"I can't alteration the past, but I tin committedness to support moving connected myself and bash everything I tin to beryllium the champion father, coparent, and person moving forward. I privation to attack this adjacent section of beingness with thing but love, and gratitude for everything we shared. And the beauteous household we created and volition proceed to raise. Love you, lil J."

Jen and Zac Affleck taking a selfie outdoors, smiling. Zac is kissing Jen's cheek. The temper is joyful and affectionate.

Many comments connected Jen's postpartum video mentioned that they had arrived astatine her video straight aft seeing Zac's. Regardless, the reactions online are mostly supportive of her determination to divorcement Zac.

Tweet stating, "THIS IS NOT A DRILL JEN AFFLECK JUST FILED FOR DIVORCE."

There are those who deliberation their divorcement is "for the best" and notation that she's connected gestation fig 4 successful 7 years and she isn't adjacent 30 yet.

Tweet astir a celebrity, Jen, divorcing Zach Affleck from SLOMW and being large with her 4th kid astatine 27.

And past determination are those who are a smidge parasocially enthusiastic...

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This remark is beauteous neutral and factual.

Tweet that reads, "jen affleck filed for divorcement connected the aforesaid amusement that turned her matrimony into content."

Okay but besides apparently, this quality comes astatine the aforesaid clip that Jen's Mormon Wives costar Whitney Leavitt's caller show was announced, and this was however a fig of radical recovered out.

Tweet that reads, "are you being comic bc Whitney got a amusement lmaooooo"

There are immoderate tiny pockets that look to deliberation that this was intentional, though.

A GIF of a idiosyncratic dramatically placing their forearm connected their forehead with a caption referencing "Jen Affleck" and "Whitney" announcements

Either way, the results are the same: Jen Affleck is yet free.

"Blue question past jen affleck files for divorce... quality is healing."

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