{"id":38765,"date":"2025-11-25T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=38765"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:50:33","slug":"wait-since-when-was-mormon-wives-jessi-married-to-a-man-named-zach-gish-before-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/11\/25\/wait-since-when-was-mormon-wives-jessi-married-to-a-man-named-zach-gish-before-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessi was married to someone else before Mormon Wives, so who&#8217;s her ex-husband Zach Gish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"867\">If you thought Jessi Draper Ngatikaura\u2019s storyline on <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/11\/19\/from-layla-to-mikayla-heres-how-old-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-cast-is\/\">The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/a> was already packed, buckle up because her real-life timeline is even busier than the show lets on.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"867\">Between the arguments with Jordan, the emotional confessions, and the rollercoaster <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/11\/24\/heres-the-real-reason-jessi-is-quitting-social-media-after-mormon-wives\/\">social media activity<\/a>, there\u2019s a whole earlier chapter many viewers didn\u2019t realise existed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"867\">Jessi was actually married before Jordan, to a man named Zach Gish. Yes, really. Let\u2019s walk through it properly, because the backstory is wild, messy, and surprisingly important.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"912\">We see Jordan and Jessi\u2019s drama play out<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Going Deeper with Jessi Draper\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZIjb7oqwy5s?start=313&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1562\">On the show, <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/11\/17\/erm-mormon-wives-jessi-just-revealed-the-last-time-she-spoke-to-marciano\/\">Jessi and Jordan\u2019s relationship<\/a> is basically its own subplot.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1562\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1562\">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 &#8211; recent and far back &#8211; sometimes spills onto the screen.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1564\" data-end=\"1589\">Jessi&#8217;s ex is Zach Gish<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BkzD0Q-jGP0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BkzD0Q-jGP0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Jessi Draper (@_justjessiiii)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"2374\">So here\u2019s the part that surprises people. <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/11\/24\/are-jessi-and-jordan-still-together-after-cheating-scandal-on-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives\/\">Mormon Wives&#8217; Jessi<\/a> was previously married to Zach Gish throughout much of the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"2374\">Their relationship eventually ended in divorce around 2019, and things were far from simple, per <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jessi-ngatikaura-documents-getting-ex-husband-initial-other-tattoos-removed-11773460\">People<\/a>. There were legal filings, plenty of paperwork, and a really messy paternity question involving Jessi\u2019s son, Jagger.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"2374\">For a while, there was confusion about who Jagger\u2019s father was, with Zach\u2019s name popping up in reports and conversations, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/15478785\/mormon-wives-jessi-ngatikaura-love-child-divorce-paternity-scandal\/\">The US Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"2374\">Later documents cleared that up, but the whole situation hung around long enough to blur timelines and keep people guessing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"2374\">And here\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3060\" data-end=\"3639\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This show has too many marriages and divorces to 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