Zac Affleck wasn't exactly trying for baby no. 2.
In fact, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star recently claimed wife Jen Affleck—who is currently pregnant with their third child—"tricked" him into expanding their family several years ago.
"We had one and then a second baby back to back," Zac—who is dad to their kids Nora, 3, and Lucas, 22 months— said during a joint interview on the May 28 episode of The Viall Files podcast. "Jen—like, six months after she gave birth—she got pregnant again with her second baby."
"I got tricked into it," the 28-year-old added of Lucas' addition. "She took out her IUD without telling me."
Jen's reaction?
The 25-year-old quipped, "Whoopsies."
But it wasn't just Lucas who was unplanned. Jen recently revealed that both she and Zac were caught off guard by the news of her third pregnancy, especially since their marriage was in jeopardy when she found out she was pregnant last year.
"While it was a surprise, we both had a feeling there was another baby waiting for us," the #MomTok influencer told People in February while announcing the news. "We were very excited. There were a lot of emotions after a crazy year."
Meanwhile, the couple—who wed in 2019 a year after meeting in college—also got candid about the marriage problems that led to their brief separation between filming the first two seasons of the Hulu reality series.
"I basically told him when I was in a place where I want to walk away from the relationship, ‘I’m doing this. This is what I feel right about. You can come along with me. You can support me in this or you can walk away,'" she recounted on The Viall Files. "I was not opposed to divorce. I was truly doing what I felt was right. Because of that, I feel like our relationship has never been stronger because I have found my voice and I’m still in the process of that."
However, Jen has no regrets about showcasing the ups and downs of her marriage on TV for the entire world to see.
"Hopefully people within the Mormon culture can look at our relationship and reflect on theirs and say like, 'Hey, I think we kind of struggle with that too,'" she explained. "Or, 'Maybe my husband has fed into the patriarchy and isn’t treating me right.' I want to be an example of that. People aren’t going to like that, unfortunately.”
Keep reading for a closer look at the stars of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Season two is streaming now on Hulu.
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