The influencer now dedicates herself to challenging the tradwife movement, which has gained both popularity andcontroversyonline.
Thetrendshowcases women who believe in the cultural and societal value of homemaker roles.
Until death do us part?
she asked inone of her videos.
The couple married soon after their first date, only six weeks later, on July 28, 1995.
Jennie soon regretted the decision.
After a few months, I knew I had made a mistake, she said.
I was probably not designed to be a Mormon stay-at-home mom, Gage said jokingly.
Gages husband cheated on her twice, causing the marriage to fall apart.
It was like a housewife immersion program designed to prepare me for nothing but wifehood, she explained.
Her breaking point came after she discovered that her husband, Jason, had been unfaithful for years.
The couple tried to reconcile, and Gage gave him another chance, trying to work things out.
The dissolution of their marriage broke Jennie, and she tried to take her own life.
I survived suicide barely, barely, she revealed.
They saved me, but I was in a coma for 10 hours and I have a brain injury.
Having no job experience or marketable skills and just $6 in her bank account, she felt overwhelmed.
I was recovering from an ovarian tumor, I never had a job.
I didnt have a bank account.
I didnt even know how to file for divorce, she explained.
Gage began flipping furniture from thrift stores and working in telephone sales to make ends meet.
Despite supporting her husband in building two businesses, she never mentioned having received any financial aid from him.
So I lost my family, but the people that I have in my life now love me.
This is my main worry with tradwives being advertised to young girls.
I also think the trad wife influencers on TikTok arent the real deal.
They treat the videos as a form of dual income, wrote one viewer.
This is exactly my issue with this recent push for tradwife lives.
The announcement sparked fierce criticism from the LDS church.
