The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives have not-so-secret lives on social media — the place they declare to earn spectacular salaries as influencers.
“It’s arduous as a result of every year is completely different. You would get a very massive model deal like, ‘Hey, we need to have like a six-month contract with you,’ after which subsequent 12 months you don’t get it in any respect,” Whitney Leavitt advised E! Information in an interview revealed on Sunday, August 25. “It varies drastically.”
Whitney, 31, stated that she as soon as acquired $20,000 to advertise a intercourse toy model on her social media, and that it’s simply one of many profitable model offers she’s struck.
“We each have gotten one — we will’t say what it was — however we’ve gotten a deal that was $75,000 [for] one 12 months,” Mormon Wives costar Mayci Neeley added to E! on Sunday. “Every trade varies. Some pay greater than the others.”
In response to Whitney, costs range “relying on what [each influencer’s] specialty is,” whether or not it’s health and well being, magnificence or parenting.
Whitney and Mayci, 29, are two of the celebrities on Hulu’s upcoming docuseries The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, chronicling the lives of younger Mormon households in Utah. The present additionally stars Taylor Frankie Paul, Demi Engemann, Jennifer Affleck (sure, her husband is cousins with A-list performing siblings Ben and Casey Affleck), Jessi Ngatikaura, Layla Taylor and Mikayla Matthews.
The ladies are all widespread mother influencers, recognized for sharing updates on their lives by way of the “#MomTok” aspect of TikTok and first going viral in 2022. Their posts appeared to contradict standard beliefs affiliated with the Mormon church and faith. Taylor, 29, even as soon as alleged that the group was concerned in a “mushy swinging” observe exterior of their respective marriages.
Not one of the different Mormon Wives ever confirmed Taylor’s claims, with Whitney and Mayci additional revealing to E! how the scandal affected their incomes.
“Oh no! If something it simply gave us extra publicity to be sincere with you,” Whitney quipped. “I believe if we have been concerned particularly — Mayci and I— it will have been completely different. We weren’t, so we simply took the clout from it.”
The drama, nonetheless, did have some adverse drawbacks.
“It’s sort of a combination although,” Mayci stated. “I threw an occasion for my enterprise launch that I did on the present and I had a few distributors that just about pulled out as a result of they’re like, ‘Wait, are you in that swinging stuff?’ So, I believe reputation-wise [we] took just a little little bit of a success, however income-wise I don’t assume it actually affected us an excessive amount of.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premieres Friday, September 6 on Hulu.