'Mormon Wives' cast speak out on plastic surgery, Utah beauty standards

The "Mormon Wives" stars' lives aren't so secret anymore.

In a new interview, much of the cast of the breakaway Hulu reality hit "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" detailed how a quest to be perfect, in part spurred by their faith, drove them to eating issues and plastic surgery.

Taylor Frankie Paul was notably absent from the ensemble cast's conversation with Allure, amid an ongoing investigation into several domestic violence incidents involving her and ex-partner Dakota Mortenson and the cancellation of her upcoming season of "The Bachelorette."

"I think that if people assume that this is a vain state, they would be correct," cast member Layla Taylor told the Magazine of Utah, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is based. "Appearance is everything here."

The "Mormon Wives" reality TV star went on to reveal that a plastic surgeon in the state had given her GLP-1 weight loss drugs: "They just handed it to me without ever having an appointment with me. They got me a prescription and it was at my house the next day."

Taylor, the only Black member of the cast, told Allure that Eurocentric beauty standards were damaging growing up.

"For a long time, I thought the perception of beauty was long, straight hair, light-colored eyes, skin that wasn't dark like mine. I tried to bleach my skin one time and I straightened my hair my whole entire life and have done things that were very toxic because I thought that that's what beauty was because it's all I saw growing up," she said.

"Everyone's blonde and blue-eyed here," fellow castmember Jen Affleck, whose mother is Ecuadorian, added. "We just stand out, and that can cause a lot of insecurities. I mean, I've been guilty of dyeing my hair blonde for that exact reason."

The cast of "Mormon Wives" has been, sometimes surprisingly, candid about the cosmetic procedures they've undergone.

"We're not pushing for people to get plastic surgery. It's just like, 'Hey, if this is something you want to do, there's no shame, there's no judgment. This is my experience for your information, for your knowledge,'" Mikayla Matthews said of their approach.

"That's how it should be," fellow castmember Mayci Neeley added. "You see certain celebrities and [they say] 'I've never done anything.' I think that's why we like to be open about it too, because I'm like, it's so weird to act like you are perfect. We know we're not."

"I have such self-confidence issues and looking back, I can totally see how I was blinded by those," Jessi Draper said, addressing the Kybella injections she got to reverse the effects of the fat grafting in her face. "I was beautiful and I wasn't able to say that a few months ago, and I can say that now."