Growing up in the FLDS church

"All 150 of us have the same dad and my dad had 27 wives."  People on TikTok are sharing what it's really like growing up in the FLDS church ….

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00:00When I turned 12, then I remember one of the mothers that was married when she was 12

00:05telling me that I needed to prepare to get married.

00:08My father actually had it all planned out who I would marry

00:11and it was my half-sister Rachel's husband.

00:30My mom was married three times, not for choosing,

00:44but the second one was my biological dad.

00:47I was born in Hilldale, Utah. Warren Jeffs is my father.

00:50My mother is his eighth wife, Vicki.

00:52All 150 of us have the same dad.

00:56And my dad had 27 wives.

00:59Almost all of our family live together in one house.

01:02That makes there about 125 people altogether.

01:06In 2002, after Ruel and Jeffs died, Warren Jeffs took control of the FLDS

01:32and he excommunicated my dad and his family.

01:35In 2012, my mom got sent out for what they called murder of unborn children,

01:40which was a miscarriage.

01:42She obviously didn't have an abortion or anything like that.

01:45They would ask some really weird questions like,

01:48have you been immoral?

01:50And there was two men as the witnesses,

01:53which is really uncomfortable, especially for an eight-year-old girl.

01:57So this was my fourth grade history book.

02:00And all we ever learned about was our prophets

02:03and that kind of stuff.

02:05The entire police department was FLDS, you know, the police chief.

02:09Our family doctor was FLDS.

02:12There was nurse practitioners that were all FLDS.

02:15The dentist, the pharmacist, like multiple engineers.

02:20So, I mean, it wasn't like people weren't intelligent.

02:23Like there's a lot of very intelligent people that had, you know,

02:27multi-million dollar companies out there.

02:30But, you know, brainwashing is real.

02:32We had to put our clothes on with the right foot or the right arm first.

02:37And when we were cleaning, we had to clean with the right arm.

02:40Basically, the left arm was bad.

02:42It was also looked down upon to be left-handed.

02:45And some of my mothers even put like wraps on these kids' left hand

02:49so they wouldn't be left-handed.

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