The reality star explains how her recent breakup inspired her to finally explore her sexuality.

Mormon Wives’ Layla Taylor comes out as bisexual, reveals she’s dating a woman

The reality star explains how her recent breakup inspired her to finally explore her sexuality.

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Layla Taylor on 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives'. Credit:

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- Layla Taylor is opening up about her sexuality.

- The* Secret Lives of Mormon Wives *star has publicly revealed that she identifies as bisexual, and dates both men and women.

- She also admitted that she hasn't yet shared the news with her fellow* Mormon Wives* stars.

Layla Taylor is sharing her truth with the world.

*The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives* star recently paid a visit to the *On Purpose With Jay Shett*y podcast with the express goal of getting candid about her sexuality.

"It’s just something that I honestly didn’t really know how to formally address for a long period of my life," Taylor shared at the start of the Monday episode, before formally coming out: "I’m gay and I’m bi and date women and men."

The 25-year-old reality star went on to share that she's been aware of her attraction to women "since I was little" but struggled with the idea of sharing the news publicly.

"We’re only on this earth for however long we are here and I’ll be damned if I’m not able to be fully who I am.," she shared.

Layla Taylor on 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives'.

Disney/Natalie Cass

Taylor then explained that her childhood in a religious Utah community played a big part in her hesitation to accept her sexuality.

"Growing up, I didn’t fit in for a lot of reasons in my childhood," Taylor told Shetty. "I grew up in a very predominantly white area, and being a little Black girl, I already stood out so much to my peers and took that on a lot more than I feel like I realized."

She continued, "I always had these thoughts and I kind of laugh about it now, because I would be watching shows like* Pretty Little Liars* and I would watch, like, Shay Mitchell kissing a girl. I was like, ‘Wait, why is that hot?'"

Taylor said things began to change as she saw more and more "queer representation" around her and realized what her feelings meant.

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Taylor, who converted to Mormonism at the age of 16, shares two sons with her ex-husband Clayton Wessel. The couple tied the knot in 2020 and Taylor noted that beforehand, she didn't know if her feelings for women were "just a phase."

The couple finalized their divorce in 2025, and Taylor went on to date Cameron Jolly — who appeared on season 2 of *Mormon Wives — *and then Mason McWhorter, from whom she split in February. Taylor said it was the end of that relationship that inspired her to further explore her sexuality.

"Honestly, I went through a breakup at the beginning of this year, and I feel like for just a long period of my life, was constantly living my life for other people," she explained. "Whether that was being a mom [or being] married. And I just feel like I was always fulfilling other people around me. And it honestly just caused me to never really focus on myself and never be able to really just sit alone with who I am as a person."

Layla Taylor and ex-husband Clayton Wessel.

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Taylor continued, "And I think honestly that breakup was like a blessing in disguise because I feel like now I've been fully able to just focus on Layla. And yeah, just focus on who I truly am.”

Taylor said she has since begun seeing a woman after exchanging DMs online. "We met up, and we hung out, and it was just kind of like that first kiss of, like, this wasn't like a drunk moment," she shared. "Like this was me intentionally going into a moment knowing how I felt about women."

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The *Mormon Wives* star, who joined the show in its first season as a newly divorced single mother of two, additionally confirmed that the podcast appearance may be how her costars find out about her sexuality. Because at the time of recording, Taylor had not yet told "a lot of people" in her life, including loved ones, friends, and her costars.

"We’ve been — not in a bad place [with] any of us girls. [But] I know that there’s some friendships that are in different places than they have been in the past," she teased. "I think right now we’ve just been kind of a little separate since just going on that pause from filming. So we just haven’t seen any of them in person."

She added, "I feel like me coming out, it’s not really a text. I feel like I want to see them in person to let them know. So they might see this before and then I’ll talk to them in person the next time I see them. But yeah, for right now, no one from the group knows.”

All of that said, Taylor added, "I'm very proud to be bi, and I'm very proud now to be out. And I hope that if anyone's in a situation that I am as well, that, for a long time there, I didn't know if I could come out and truly be myself. I hope that they can feel safe to do so and proud to do so."

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