“Mormon Wives” star takes down family Halloween costume post referencing JFK’s assassination following backlash
“Mormon Wives” star takes down family Halloween costume post referencing JFK’s assassination following backlash
Daysia TolentinoSat, October 31, 2026 at 10:09 PM UTC
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McCall DaPron at Hulu’s Get Real House on April 22, 2026Credit: Maya Dehlin/DisneyKey Points -
McCall DaPron, who will star in the upcoming reality series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, shared her family’s controversial Halloween costumes on Thursday.
DaPron and her husband transformed into First Lady Jackie Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy on the day of his assassination.
Their four kids went as Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., and two Secret Service agents.
This reality TV star has taken down her Halloween post after receiving intense backlash.
McCall DaPron, who will star in the upcoming spinoff The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, posted a photo of her and her family’s controversial Halloween costumes on Thursday. By Saturday, she had deleted the Instagram post.
DaPron and her husband Kirk dressed up as First Lady Jackie Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy on the day of his assassination. Meanwhile, their children McCartney, 8, and Banks, 2, were Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., respectively. Their two other kids, Monroe, 11, and Truman, 4, were dressed as two Secret Service agents.
McCall DaPron and her family dressed as the Kennedys on the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in a now-deleted Instagram postCredit: McCall DaPron/Instagram
“Happy Halloween [heart] The Kennedy’s,” DaPron wrote in her caption, per PEOPLE.
Commenters swiftly denounced the outfits as “distasteful.” Entertainment Weekly reached out to a representative for DaPron for comment.
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This is not the only time a celebrity has gotten in hot water for referencing JFK’s assassination in their Halloween costume. Last year, Julia Fox defended her costume after receiving criticism for dressing up as a bloodied Jackie Kennedy after her husband was shot.
Donning a pink skirt suit and matching pillbox hat stained with fake blood, Fox stepped out as the former First Lady during an event for Urban Decay. The former president’s grandson Jack Schlossberg slammed the costume as “glorifying political violence” and called it “disgusting, desperate and dangerous.”
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Responding to the backlash, Fox called her costume “a statement.” She said that Jackie Kennedy’s decision to remain in her pink suit after the assassination created an image of “beauty and horror” and “poise and devastation.”
“Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery,” Fox wrote on Instagram last October. “It was performance, protest, and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It’s about trauma, power, and how femininity itself is a form of resistance.”
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