Aspyn Ovard Reveals Daughter Has Terminal Cancer on Mormon Wives
Aspyn Ovard said on Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County that one of her three daughters has terminal cancer. Her comments, in a confessional interview in the November 12 premiere, answer the question many viewers are asking: did Aspyn Ovard lose her baby?
Aspyn Ovard, a star of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, said in the show's November 12, 2026 premiere that one of her daughters has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Viewers asking whether Aspyn Ovard lost her baby are reacting to that disclosure: she described a daughter's terminal diagnosis, not a death.
Ovard, 30, has three daughters with her ex-husband, Parker Ferris: Cove, 7, Lola, 5, and Elle, 2. She spoke through tears in a confessional interview for the series.
What Ovard said
"Everything happened so, just out of nowhere," Ovard said. "One day she was OK, and then the next day she wasn't."
She described the moment doctors delivered the news. "At the hospital, you're like, 'It has to be fine,'" she said. "You can't fathom that they're actually going to tell you that your baby has cancer, and that it's terminal."
Ovard said the prognosis is uncertain. "She could be gone in a month, we don't know. I've been living like that for over three years, just having no idea."
A marriage already under strain
Ovard said her relationship with Ferris had reached a breaking point before the diagnosis. The YouTuber and Ferris split in 2024.
"My marriage was nowhere near in a place to be able to make it through something like this," she said. "We weren't even going to make it through before this happened."
She called the relationship "so toxic and hard." Even so, she said she kept trying to look after him "because I know how hard he's grieving."
In a therapy session with Ferris, Ovard said she is trying to earn money so neither of them has to work if they are mourning the loss of a child. During a disagreement she told him: "You know that I will always take care of you because I always have!"
Divorce and a new household
Ovard and Ferris, high school sweethearts from Utah, married in October 2015, when she was 19 and he was 20. She filed for divorce on April 1, 2024, the same day she announced the birth of their third daughter.
Ovard is now part of a throuple with Bri Davis and Davis's husband, Billy Davis. That arrangement is one thread of the show's storyline this season.
In September 2024, on the Weekly Trash podcast, Ovard said she no longer believed in marriage. "I would have a long-term partner if I met someone, and I feel like this is it," she said. "But to get legally married, I wouldn't ever do again. It's just too hard to separate."
