Mary Cosby has a knack for causing drama with her often outlandish comments, harsh criticisms and bold life choices.
Since joining “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” in 2020, Cosby has gotten herself into quite a bit of trouble.
From body-shaming her co-stars to being accused of running her church like a “cult,” read below to see Cosby’s most controversial moments.
Marrying her step-grandfather
Cosby first turned heads when fans learned she married her step-grandfather so she could inherit her family’s Pentecostal Church.
Her fellow cast members talked about the unconventional marriage throughout Season 1, but Cosby reminded the ladies that her husband, Robert Sr., is not her “blood grandfather.”
“I did marry him,” she told co-star Heather Gay in Season 1. “I didn’t want to, Heather. I didn’t want to. That’s weird to me. But [my grandmother] really did want me to, so I obeyed her. I trusted every word.”
Cosby later explained at the Season 1 reunion that her grandmother, who died in 1997, “wanted me to take her place” as the first lady of their church by marrying Robert Sr., but they both prayed for two years before deciding to fulfill her grandmother’s wishes.
“We’re happy and you can’t say or do anything to take happiness away from me because it’s hard to get. It’s very hard to find. And if you can find that in a man, it doesn’t matter where he came from,” she said.
The couple shares one son, Robert Jr.
Calling Jen shah a ‘Mexican thug’
Cosby doesn’t often apologize for her controversial comments, but she later regretted calling her former co-star Jen Shah a “Mexican thug” during Season 2 of the hit Bravo series.
Cosby’s co-star Lisa Barlow told her something Shah had said about her. It wasn’t kind, so Cosby fired back, saying Shah was “evil” and “heartless.”
Cosby then compared Shah, who is of Tongan and Hawaiian descent, to a…
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