Jen Affleck fired back at estranged husband Zac Affleck by posting an old video in which he mocked her postpartum body, just one day after he called himself her “biggest fan” online.
Zac, 30, broke his silence on their split Thursday in a TikTok video where he revealed he discovered Jen, 27, had filed for divorce through news reports rather than from her directly. The “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star had submitted the paperwork Tuesday in Utah County District Court, reports said Wednesday, alongside a parenting plan for the couple’s three children.
In his emotional upload, Zac struck a conciliatory tone toward the mother of his children. “I don’t want anyone speaking bad about Jen,” he said. “I’ll be the first to say I’ve made plenty of mistakes in our marriage, and it just really was time for us to go our own ways. We got married so young, and it sucks because I really did feel like we had something pretty special when we got married.”
Despite the split, he pledged to remain supportive. “I will continue to be her biggest fan,” he added in the video.
Jen responded directly to that claim by digging into her archives. She posted throwback footage on her own TikTok page showing herself two weeks postpartum, during which Zac could be heard delivering a harsh critique of her appearance.
“[I] hope you’re not making a TikTok looking like that,” he said in the clip. “Your boobs are literally like … Your tits are sagging all over. You don’t want to post that, baby, I can tell you that right now.”
She paired the video with a pointed caption. “He was never my biggest supporter,” she wrote, referencing his recent post.
The exchange drew immediate reaction from followers. One commenter on Zac’s Thursday video wrote, “As much as I don’t like Jen.. If my husband told me my boobs were ‘saggy’ 2 weeks after giving birth, I’d never forgive him.”
Zac addressed the resurfaced footage in his comments section, acknowledging the timestamp and his own words. “This was a video from 2022,” he responded. “Obviously horrible and should have never been said. When I saw the video today, I was absolutely shocked I had said that. I said a lot of horrible and hurtful things, but I have tried my best to learn and grow.”
Jen did not stop at the body-shaming clip. She posted additional footage from their marriage showing a tense domestic moment over household chores.
“I’ve been all your laundry for the past… forever,” she told him in the second video. “If I got a little bit more help from you it would be nice. Maybe we’d have some towels.”
The couple shares Nora, 4, Lucas, 3, and Penelope, 1, and Jen is currently pregnant with their fourth child. As news of their separation spread, both parents separately celebrated Nora’s birthday on Wednesday.
The Utah County filing marks the end of a marriage that began when both were young, a reality Zac himself acknowledged in his Thursday statement. His admission of “plenty of mistakes” stood in contrast to the image he attempted to project of continued support, an image Jen’s archival footage actively dismantled.
The back-and-forth played out entirely across TikTok, with each party using the platform to shape narrative around a split that had already become public. Zac’s attempt at graceful separation met with Jen’s counter-archive, transforming what began as a standard celebrity breakup statement into a more contentious public reckoning with their private history.
Neither has indicated whether further legal proceedings beyond the initial filing and parenting plan are imminent.
The “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star’s decision to post unflattering private footage rather than issue a verbal rebuttal represented a distinct approach to celebrity breakup discourse, letting Zac’s own recorded words serve as her primary response to his claims of fandom and support.
Zac’s comment that they “got married so young” and his acknowledgment that their union once felt “pretty special” framed the divorce as a gradual dissolution rather than a sudden rupture, though Jen’s posts suggested accumulated grievances that outlasted any remaining goodwill.
The couple’s three young children and Jen’s current pregnancy add complexity to the separation timeline, with the parenting plan filed alongside the divorce paperwork indicating early efforts to establish custody structure.
Jen’s second video, focused on laundry and towel disputes, broadened her critique from a single body-shaming incident to a pattern of domestic imbalance, reinforcing her rejection of Zac’s supportive self-characterization through specific household grievances rather than general accusation.
Both Zac and Jen have continued posting on TikTok since the initial exchange, though neither has posted additional direct responses to the other’s claims as of Thursday.