Jen Affleck Displays on DWTS Journey Amid Whitney Leavitt Drama

Whereas her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars are arguing about Fruity Pebbles, Jen Affleck is expressing gratitude this vacation season.

Jen, 26, shared an emotional video through Instagram and TikTok on Thursday, November 27, reflecting on her Dancing With the Stars season 34 journey with skilled dance associate Jan Ravnik.

Within the Thanksgiving Day video, interspersed with footage of her and Jan rehearsing and performing, a teary-eyed Jen mentioned, “I simply really feel so grateful for everybody that voted for us this season.”

“I went into this journey excited to bop, however greater than something, I went into this journey desirous to share my story and produce consciousness to melancholy. Postpartum, prenatal melancholy is one thing that basically affected me this final yr,” mentioned Jen, who welcomed daughter Penelope in July. (The Hulu star additionally shares daughter Nora, 4, and son Lucas, 2, with husband Zac Affleck.)

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Jen continued within the video, “I additionally wished to speak about being a mom and the way laborious it’s. As a mother, I believe it’s very easy to neglect about your self, and your desires and objectives, and I wished to indicate that your desires matter too. And in return, your youngsters get a greater, happier model of your self. That was my goal.”

“On the finish of the day, what issues is the story that you just’re wanting to inform and the lives that you just’re wanting to the touch. That was my purpose. I believe I did that. Hopefully I did that!” she mentioned, including, “These are glad tears.”

Jen and Jan, 30, have been eradicated throughout week 7 of the competitors on the October 28 Halloween Evening episode of DWTS.

Earlier this week, Jen’s Mormon Wives costar Whitney Leavitt — who was eradicated every week earlier than the season 34 finale with associate Mark Ballas — clarified her facial response to Jen’s elimination after followers accused her of smiling after which showing to cowl her mouth.

“I believed I used to be getting eradicated each Tuesday,” Leavitt defined on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast Wednesday, November 26. “Each single Tuesday, I used to be mentally getting ready myself. So in that second, I felt two feelings: It was one the place it was like, oh, my God, they didn’t name my identify, however oh, my God, now my buddy’s going dwelling. Two feelings in that second. I believe, you recognize, it’s a aid, after which it’s like, ‘Oh wait, however now any individual goes dwelling and now could be leaving this expertise.’”

Based on Whitney, she didn’t “bear in mind smiling,” noting that her response “if something” was “aid.” The TikTok influencer mentioned she felt “no pleasure in anyway” over her costar’s DWTS exit.

Whitney, 32, additionally mentioned “it sucked” to see Jen apparently rooting for different contestants on the present following her departure.

“Jen understands what it’s like being within the public eye, being within the actuality house, getting the hate,” she mentioned. “She’s skilled it. … It didn’t really feel nice that she fed into that, that she determined to go on a Stay and say, ‘Yeah, I’m not going to vote for her.’ I imply, she might have simply mentioned who she was voting for. She didn’t have to say who she wasn’t voting for.”

As for the place their relationship stands now, Whitney advised host Alex Cooper, “The connection’s not nice. I don’t actually even know if there may be one proper now. There was so much that occurred whereas we have been doing Dancing with the Stars. We have been additionally filming Secret Life through the time. So, I do know the viewers goes to have the ability to see that story when that comes out subsequent yr.”