Jordan McClanahan joins The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County as one of its nine cast members, and she arrives with one of the clearest backstories in the group. She is a fitness trainer since 2012, a mom of four, a firefighter’s wife, and a Mormon convert who has been 10 years sober. The spinoff premieres on Thursday, November 12, 2026, on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally, with 8 episodes dropping at once under the October 20 Disney+ announcement. Hulu’s original September 29 announcement said 10, and some listings still say 10.
She is also the cast member whose arrival raised the most questions before the show aired. Jordan was not in the first cast announcement. She appeared in Hulu’s September 29 teaser and official cast list in place of Chandler Higginson, who had been named in the spring. Hulu gave no explanation for the change, and Higginson has made no formal statement about it.
Jordan McClanahan at a Glance
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Age | 36 (birthday Feb 23) |
| Known for | Fitness trainer since 2012; The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County |
| Husband | Corey McClanahan (firefighter; met at 14, married Feb 18, 2017) |
| Children | Mom of four under six (children not named) |
| Sobriety | Ten years sober (got sober at 25, per her own account; Cosmopolitan says 26) |
| Faith | Raised Lutheran; baptized 2016 at 26; sealed in the Newport Beach temple |
| Socials | Instagram 18,123 followers (early Nov 2026) |
The cast change that put her on the show
Hulu first announced the Orange County spinoff at its Get Real event in the spring of 2026, and the eight women named then included Chandler Higginson. Jordan McClanahan was not at that event and was not on that list. The picture changed on September 29, 2026, when Hulu released a teaser and its official premiere announcement. Higginson was absent from both, and Jordan was on the cast list in her place.
Hulu has said nothing about why the lineup changed. Higginson has also made no formal statement. What is on the record is thinner than that.
She commented “What is going on?!” on the teaser post, and her husband Dylan Higginson commented that there was a lot to be said and they would share soon. Neither comment explains what happened.
That leaves two facts viewers can rely on. Jordan is in the official cast for the November 12 premiere, and Higginson is not, even though she was part of the first announcement. Whether Higginson filmed scenes that still appear in the finished episodes is something only the show itself will answer. Grazia reported she was seen with the group while filming earlier in the spring, so her absence from the cast list does not settle whether she appears on screen at all.
Jordan has not framed her own casting as a replacement story. In a Q and A on her Instagram in early November, she said she joined the show through Mayci Neeley and her best friend McCall DaPron. She also said the season’s drama was “100% unresolved” and teased that the November 12 premiere would reveal more.
Ten years sober, and a faith she chose at 26
Jordan’s sobriety is the part of her story she talks about most openly. She has been sober for ten years, a fact she put at the top of her own introduction post in October 2026 and repeated across her pre-air Q and A sessions. She got sober at 25, after social drinking escalated into blackouts and anxiety, and she has described that old way of living as unsustainable.
Cosmopolitan’s profile gives her age at sobriety as 26 rather than 25. This profile follows Jordan’s own account, and the two versions agree she has been sober for ten years.
She first learned about the church through her best friend McCall DaPron. Later, after dating Corey, she attended the church’s addiction recovery program, which Corey introduced her to, and she was baptized in 2016, at age 26. She and Corey were later sealed in the Newport Beach temple.
That makes her different from most of her castmates. Jordan was raised Lutheran, not raised in the LDS church. She first learned about Mormonism through McCall’s family, by going along to activities and asking questions.
She has said the hardest part of the change was keeping her sobriety while leaving behind a long partying lifestyle, and telling her family. Her family was sad and unsupportive at first, she said, and later came around.
She is 36, by her own account in a June 2026 video in which she said she was baptized at 26 and is now 36. She said in her November 6 Q and A that she shares a February 23 birthday with McCall and with McCall’s sister Mayci Neeley. Her exact birth year has not been stated directly, so this profile gives her age as she stated it rather than a birth date.
Married to a firefighter, mom of four
Jordan married her high school sweetheart. She met Corey at 14, and the two married when she was 26. Corey is a firefighter, and Jordan has talked about the independence that comes with being a firefighter’s wife, including long stretches holding down the house on her own.
The couple have four children. Jordan described them in an October 2026 introduction post as four kids under six, and she is often pictured holding the youngest. She has not shared her children’s names publicly.
Family shapes the practical choices she talks about most. The family does hybrid homeschooling, a mix of home learning and outside schooling that Jordan chose so the family could spend more time together. That choice led the family to buy an RV, which she has joked about in her Q and A posts after running into technical problems with it.
A fitness trainer since 2012
Fitness is Jordan’s work, and it predates the show by more than a decade. She has been a fitness trainer since 2012, teaching barre, Pilates, yoga and spin. She grew up doing ballet and competitive tennis, and that background runs through the way she talks about training now.
She stepped back from full-time work to raise her children and taught fitness part time during those years. In her November Q and A, she said she was returning to work while filming.
Her Instagram posts from the same period mix workout clips with family photos. One early November carousel included shots from a “BOOTY BURN” session, and her intro post in October listed fitness instruction first among the things she does. Her Instagram audience was 18,123 in early November 2026, and fitness is the clearest reason a new audience would follow her after the show airs.
Shanghai, Mandarin, and a career before kids
Before children and fitness took over her working life, Jordan lived and worked abroad. She spent time living and working in Shanghai, and she speaks conversational Mandarin. The Shanghai years come up often when she introduces herself.
Her career before kids was in US immigration and international business in China, work she did more than ten years ago, before she stepped back to raise her four children. The China years also produced one of her best stories. She once flew alone to Mongolia for a modeling job, a trip she has described in her Q and A posts.
Those details matter because they set her apart in this cast. Most of the Orange County group built their names on social media. Jordan’s working life before the show ran through offices, visas and business trips in China.
The friendships that brought her to MomTok
Jordan did not come to the show cold. She has known McCall DaPron since age three, a friendship that goes back to childhood, and she counts Madison Bontempo and Ashleigh Pease as longtime friends too. She said in her Q and A that she joined the show through Mayci Neeley and McCall, which makes her the cast member with the deepest roots in the group before filming started.
That history is worth keeping in mind when the season airs. The original Utah series, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, was built on a friend group that already knew each other, and the Orange County spinoff follows the same shape. Jordan’s ties to McCall and Mayci give her a direct line into the franchise’s first family, and her friendship with McCall is the reason she learned about the LDS church in the first place.
Jen Affleck is the one crossover from the Utah cast, and she moved to Orange County for the spinoff. Jordan’s connection to the Utah group runs through the Neeley family instead, through McCall and Mayci. It is a different kind of link to the original show, and it is the one Jordan herself points to when she explains how she got cast.
Jordan McClanahan’s Conversion and Sobriety on Screen
The trailer confirms she is in the cast. Her own posts confirm she filmed, that she went back to work while filming, and that the drama she was part of was still unresolved when she answered questions in early November. Nothing she has shared so far says how big her role is or which storylines carry her episodes.
How the show handles her conversion and sobriety is the part to watch first, since those are the two parts of her story she chose to lead with herself. Her long friendship with McCall is the second, and whether Chandler Higginson appears at all is the third, a question only the episodes can settle.
FAQs About Jordan McClanahan
Who is Jordan McClanahan?
Jordan McClanahan is a fitness trainer and influencer from Orange County, California, and a cast member on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County. She is a mom of four, married to firefighter Corey McClanahan, and a Mormon convert who has been sober for ten years. She joined the official cast in September 2026, in place of Chandler Higginson, who had been named in the spring announcement.
How old is Jordan McClanahan?
Jordan is 36. She said so herself in a June 2026 video, in which she said she was baptized at age 26 and is now 36. She said in her November 6 Q and A that she shares a February 23 birthday with castmates McCall DaPron and Mayci Neeley. Her exact birth year has not been stated directly.
Is Jordan McClanahan Mormon?
Yes. Jordan is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but she converted as an adult rather than growing up in the faith. She was raised Lutheran, learned about the church through her best friend McCall DaPron, and was baptized in 2016 at age 26. She and her husband were later sealed in the Newport Beach temple.
Who is Jordan McClanahan’s husband?
Her husband is Corey McClanahan, a firefighter. Jordan met him at 14, and the two married when she was 26. Corey introduced her to the LDS church’s addiction recovery program, which she attended as she moved toward baptism and conversion.
How many kids does Jordan McClanahan have?
Jordan has four children. She described them in an October 2026 post as four kids under six. She has not shared their names publicly in the material reviewed for this profile.
When does The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County premiere?
The series premieres on Thursday, November 12, 2026, on Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally. 8 episodes drop at once. Hulu’s original announcement said 10; the current listing says 8.
