The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Draper is celebrating new beginnings with her boyfriend, Marciano Brunette, by her side.
“Jessi bought a new house in Utah, but Marciano will be moving in part-time. He is slowly transitioning his life from Vegas to Utah,” a source exclusively tells Us of the couple’s future plans. “The plan is for them to live together. They are very serious, and it’s going well.”
Earlier this week, Jessi, 34, raised eyebrows when she teased a “new beginning loading” after sharing a video featuring Marciano, 33, spinning her around inside an empty Utah house.
“I’m still dizzy,” she wrote via Instagram on Monday, September 28.
It’s been a month of change for Jessi, who also finalized her divorce from ex Jordan Ngatikaura. (Details of a possible settlement and a financial judgment remain private at the time of publication.)
“Now that our divorce has been signed, I’m grateful to have some closure and the opportunity to move forward,” Jordan, 32, said in a statement to Us on September 11. “Jessi and I shared a meaningful chapter of our lives together, and no matter how that chapter ended, I will always be grateful for the good that came from it — especially our children.”
After a public split from her husband of five years, Jessi — who shares two children with Jordan — has no interest in getting married again, a source reveals to Us.
“But she is fully committed to [Marciano] and is open to having more kids,” the insider adds. “He gets along with all of her kids and treats her really well. She is in a great place now that her divorce is final and she is free to live her life on her own terms.”
Us has reached out to Jessi’s rep for comment.
Mormon Wives viewers watched the collapse of Jordan and Jessi’s marriage play out over the past several seasons, after the professional hairstylist admitted to kissingMarciano while filming Vanderpump Villa.
During a March appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, however, Jessi denied that her fling with Marciano was the main catalyst for the end of her marriage.
“[Jordan] put in the papers that we ended it because I had an affair, and he’s talking about Marciano, the person I kissed a year and a half ago. That’s what he put as the reason,” Jessi told host Alex Cooper. “I was like, ‘What?’ We’ve worked through that. It’s already been proven on TV that I didn’t sleep with him.”
The reality star continued, “I had been in limbo for a while, and anyone that’s lived in limbo knows it’s excruciating. Where I’m like, ‘I don’t know if this is right or not.’ I literally woke up one day and — it’s such a simple thought — but I was like, ‘I can change this. I can change my life. I can be happy.’”
