Famous Latter-day Saints

Jenna Kim Jones: The New, Cool Face of Mormonism

Flashback nine years ago: Jenna Kim Jones, 18 years old, fresh out of Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, is standing in a New York University dorm room in the heart of Greenwich Village with a crowd of newly arriving freshman girls when one of them, the extrovert, the one who’d play Rizzo in “Grease,” announces, “You guys, I just learned there’s a Mormon girl in this building!”

All eyes turned to the blond-haired, brown-eyed girl in the corner — the likeliest suspect.

Outed. On her first day of school.

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