Jessi was married to someone else before Mormon Wives, so who’s her ex-husband Zach Gish?
This show has too many marriages and divorces to count
If you thought Jessi Draper Ngatikaura’s storyline on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was already packed, buckle up because her real-life timeline is even busier than the show lets on.
Between the arguments with Jordan, the emotional confessions, and the rollercoaster social media activity, there’s a whole earlier chapter many viewers didn’t realise existed.
Jessi was actually married before Jordan, to a man named Zach Gish. Yes, really. Let’s walk through it properly, because the backstory is wild, messy, and surprisingly important.
We see Jordan and Jessi’s drama play out
On the show, Jessi and Jordan’s relationship is basically its own subplot.
Season three takes us through arguments, quiet moments, not-so-quiet moments, and a couple of eyebrow-raising Instagram changes from Jessi that had people whispering.
The two married in 2020 and share kids, which makes the rocky patches even more intense to watch. Their ups and downs have been tracked closely, and you can see how their history together – recent and far back – sometimes spills onto the screen.
Jessi’s ex is Zach Gish
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So here’s the part that surprises people. Mormon Wives’ Jessi was previously married to Zach Gish throughout much of the 2010s.
Their relationship eventually ended in divorce around 2019, and things were far from simple, per People. There were legal filings, plenty of paperwork, and a really messy paternity question involving Jessi’s son, Jagger.
For a while, there was confusion about who Jagger’s father was, with Zach’s name popping up in reports and conversations, per The US Sun.
Later documents cleared that up, but the whole situation hung around long enough to blur timelines and keep people guessing.
And here’s where things overlap with the show, Jessi and Jordan got engaged in 2020 while some of her earlier legal loose ends were still being tied up, which is why the past keeps bubbling to the surface.
Right now, Jessi and Jordan are working through a tough chapter, and filming seems to have caught them right in the middle of it. They put their Utah house on the market, Jessi briefly swapped her social media name, and the rumour mill absolutely ran with all of it.
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