Madison “Madi” Prewett preaches submission in her marriage to husband Grant Troutt.
“I say often, like, when you love God the most, then you can love your spouse the best,” Prewett, 30, said on the Tuesday, June 2, episode of Jennie Allen’s eponymous podcast. “It’s so easy to follow him because of how he follows Jesus.”
She continued, “I am a strong personality, but it’s so easy to submit to him because of his submission to Christ, and so, I just trust the spirit on the inside of him and we just have a respect for each other and a seeking of the Lord ourselves that it’s like constantly like, ‘Hey, what do you feel like God’s laying on your heart?’”
The Bachelor Nation alum and Troutt, 30, have been together since 2021, getting married the next year after a whirlwind engagement. Upon their nuptials, Prewett has been vocal about supporting her spouse.
“I learned a lot about being a submissive wife, [which] was a challenge for me at first,” she said on a December 2025 episode of her “Stay True” podcast. “Now, it’s, like, my favorite thing. I love talking about submission.”
Prewett quickly clarified her comments after sparking online backlash.
“When you [often] hear that word, you think of it meaning that if you’re a woman, that it means oppression and that you have no voice and you are silenced and you are controlled,” she explained on a follow-up podcast episode. “When you hear that word, I think it can strike a lot of different feelings. That is in no way of how I meant it of what the Bible is saying nor in how we live. Our marriage dynamic is not like that in any way.”
She continued, “It’s not exercising this dominant power and authority … over someone. It doesn’t mean that the wife is weak or passive or has no voice or is not equal with the husband. That’s not at all what submission means. Nor is it what we believe submission means when it’s talking about that in the Bible.”
According to Prewett, Troutt is “the spiritual leader” of their home.
“When I think about it, Grant is the provider and protector of the home,” she explained at the time. “I get to come under his care in a way that’s not like, ‘Oh, I have to,’ but in a way where I feel safe. … For me, there’s this respect and this honoring that I give Grant, not because I have to, because it’s the way in which God calls us to and in the way that I truly have found to feel the freest and the most content in our marriage.”
Prewett and Troutt expanded their family in January 2025 when they welcomed daughter Hosanna, which further impacted their relationship.
“My marriage looks different. I mean, so much changed at one time and that was really overwhelming,” she told Allen, 49, during Tuesday’s podcast appearance. “Something that grew so much for me, and Grant can testify to this, was [that] I didn’t get those long times in the word like I used to, but what I started doing was memorizing chunks of scripture because I had my Bible or my phone by me while I was breast-feeding … that I was able to just like sit there and meditate on scripture.”
