Mormon Wives’ Aspyn Ovard shares her daughter has been diagnosed with terminal cancer
'One day she was okay, and then the next day, she wasn’t'
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County star Aspyn Ovard has revealed that one of her daughters has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The influencer shared the news in the show’s premiere episode, during a therapy session with her ex-husband Parker Ferris. Aspyn and Parker share three daughters, and they haven’t said which of their girls is ill or what type of cancer she has. Aspyn said the family has been living with the diagnosis for more than three years.
The Mormon Wives spin-off landed on Hulu on 12 November, and Aspyn opened up about the diagnosis for the first time on screen. “Everything happened just out of nowhere,” she said. “One day she was okay, and then the next day, she wasn’t.”
Recalling the moment doctors broke the news, she said: “At the hospital, you’re like, ‘It has to be fine.’ You can’t fathom they’re actually going to tell you that your baby has cancer. And that it’s terminal.”
She also opened up about the uncertainty the family lives with every day. “She could be gone in a month, we don’t know,” she said. “I’ve been living like that for over three years, just having no idea.”
According to Aspyn, the family has been living “scan to scan”, and when the show was filmed their daughter had just had another stable scan.
Aspyn was candid about how the diagnosis affected her marriage. “My marriage was nowhere near in a place to be able to make it through something like this,” she said. “We weren’t even going to make it through before this happened.”
She added that she still looked after Parker through it all. “And through all of it, I feel like I still tried to take care of him because I know how hard he’s grieving,” she said.
In the therapy session, she told him: “You know that I will always take care of you because I always have! When everything goes to s**t, and things get really hard, I don’t want you to have to do anything.”
Later in the series, Parker reveals that doctors have called their daughter a “walking miracle”, because it’s unusual for a child with this type of cancer to have had this much time.
Who are Aspyn Ovard’s daughters?
Aspyn and Parker have three daughters: Cove, seven, Lola, five, and Elle, two.
The pair married in October 2015, and Aspyn filed for divorce on 1 April 2024 after eight years of marriage. She filed on the same day she announced Elle’s birth.
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