Secret Lives of Mormon Wives‘ Dakota Mortensen is clearing the air about whether he’s expecting a baby with someone else after his split from Taylor Frankie Paul.
Dakota, 32, addressed the speculation via TikTok on Thursday, May 29, with a video captioned, “No babies on the way.”
“I am not having a kid with anybody. I haven’t slept with anyone since I have dated Taylor until now,” Dakota explained. “If anybody wants to try to prove that wrong, by all means be my guest.”
Dakota said his social media post was a result of claims made by other people.
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“I just wanted to clear the air because there’s a few girls out here that said they are even pregnant with my child,” he added. “Lots of crazy stuff but anyways, no baby coming!”
Earlier that day, a TikTok personality joked in the comments section of a video that Dakota is the father of her baby. The response gained traction when Taylor, 30, poked fun at the news.
“A girl claiming to be having his baby as I’m putting myself in timeout for actually being his bm [baby mama],” Taylor captioned a post before clarifying in the comments, “I think it’s a joke, I sure hope so.”
While Dakota is not expanding his family, he and Taylor are continuing to navigate coparenting post-split. When Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debuted in September 2024, the pair — who share 12-month-old son Ever — were in a good place.
By the end of the first episode, however, Taylor was arrested for aggravated assault, two counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, child abuse with injury and criminal mischief after a heated fight. Taylor pleaded guilty six months later to aggravated assault, while the other four charges were dismissed with prejudice. She reached a plea deal in March 2023.
Taylor later reflected on how filming the reality show affected her relationship with Dakota.
“I feel like I might’ve vented to my mom and been a little harsh — and he’s very sensitive — so I feel like it could be a lot harder for him,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in September 20224. “Also it could be triggering, too, to bring up these conversations. Especially, I think I’ve heard the [season] cliffhanger, so that in itself stirs up some stuff. We are doing good today, we’re going through work, so I really hope that not too much comes out.”
Taylor told Us she wasn’t in a rush to get engaged to Dakota, adding, “I just want to take my time with this time around, this is my second marriage. It is going to be very important to me, and I don’t want to end up in another situation of being divorced.”
She continued: “So, I really just want everything to be really solid and have a foundation of trust. And so I feel like that takes time. I would love for that to be the end goal. But right now, I think building it up to that is where I’m at.”
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Ahead of the season 2 premiere, Dakota and Taylor called it quits and got back together multiple times. They are currently not dating. (Along with Ever, Taylor shares daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband Tate Paul.)
“We’ve obviously come a long way to navigate [coparenting],” Taylor shared with Us in a May cover story. “It’s different from my first husband because there’s obviously a friendship there. We adjusted. Whereas [with] Dakota, everything’s fresh. It’s something that we necessarily didn’t want to do but needed to separate.”
Taylor made it clear that she’s not in a romantic relationship with Dakota but noted that things between them have “gotten better” recently.
“So it’s an adjustment and we’ve had to learn through the obstacles of this experience to do what’s best for our son,” she added. “Of course when things are heightened, you’re breaking up and it’s not something you wanted and you just had a baby. It was not the prettiest experience, but currently we’ve come a long way.”
