Now that ‘Real Housewives’ star Heather Gay has left the Mormon church, she has a lot to say
LA TimesOn the Shelf 'Good Time Girl' By Heather Gay Simon & Schuster: 288 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. When a “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” castmate first described Heather Gay as a “good time girl” who exposed her breasts while attending Brigham Young University, an insulted Gay insisted that couldn’t be further from the truth. “It’s crazy to look back at who I was,” Gay says over the phone from her living room in Salt Lake City. really helped me through hard times with “Housewives.” The label “good-time girl” became this scarlet letter that was following you around at the beginning of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” which you’ve obviously reclaimed. There’s no question that my life has radically transformed in the last five years, and it’s because of “Housewives.” It’s because of moments like Season 1, when Lisa says, “I think she’s like, ‘Woo, a good-time girl.’” That was my first time being exposed to the world, and to have that be my reputation, I was so embarrassed and ashamed.