Kody Brown’s Wives: All The Women He’s Been Married To & Where They Stand Now

• Kody Brown stars connected ‘Sister Wives’ with the 4 women he’s been joined to implicit the years: Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn Brown.
• Christine near Kody successful 2021, portion Meri and Janelle separated from Kody successful 2022.
• Despite antecedently surviving a polygamous lifestyle, Kody present remains legally joined to lone Robyn.
• Christine has moved connected with a caller antheral pursuing her divided from Kody.

Kody Brown’s polygamous manner has been documented connected TLC’s Sister Wives since the show’s premiere successful 2010. Kody joined his archetypal wife, Meri Brown, successful 1990. They yet welcomed Janelle Brown and Christine Brown into the family, though Kody lone joined them spiritually. In 2014, Kody divorced Meri, but remained joined to her spiritually. The divorcement happened truthful Kody could legally marry Robyn Brown and follow her children from a past relationship.

Including his 3 adopted children, Kody has 18 kids total with his 4 wives. They raised their families unneurotic implicit the years. However, a batch changed for the Brown household successful 2021, erstwhile Christine announced she’d beryllium divorcing Kody and leaving the family. The pair’s divided was followed by Janelle besides separating from Kody successful 2022. Then, successful 2023, Meri and Kody announced that they were “permanently terminating” their marriage, arsenic well. All 3 women person present been surviving abstracted lives from Kody, with Christine adjacent moving connected and starting to day a caller man. Learn each astir Kody’s relationships with the 4 women below:

Meri Brown

Kody Brown has had 4 wives: Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn. (Puddle Monkey Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Kody met his archetypal wife, Meri Brown, done Meri’s sister successful 1990. After a whirlwind romance, the mates was engaged and joined wrong a year, erstwhile Kody was 21 and Meri was 19. Though Meri and Kody person been joined the longest, they lone stock 1 child. Their child, Leon, was calved Mariah, but came retired arsenic transgender successful June 2022 and present uses they/them pronouns.

The mates remained legally joined until 2014, erstwhile Kody divorced Meri truthful that helium would beryllium capable to wed Robyn. Kody and Meri remained successful a spiritual marriage, but began increasing apart. Their narration took a large deed successful 2015, though, erstwhile Meri was progressive successful a catfishing scandal. She began an online narration for respective months with idiosyncratic who she believed to beryllium a man, but was yet revealed to beryllium a woman.

When Meri’s catfishing ungraded was exposed, Kody mislaid each spot successful his archetypal wife, and it led to further unraveling of their already fragile relationship. As the years went on, Kody pulled distant from Meri much and more. In a Feb. 2022 Instagram post, Meri admitted that she considered her matrimony to Kody arsenic “estranged.” However, she said clip and clip again that she did not privation to springiness up anticipation that they could enactment things out.

Around that time, though, Kody was making confessions of his ain astir the narration on Sister Wives. Kody flat-out said that helium did not consider himself married to Meri anymore, and admitted that helium wouldn’t attraction if she went connected to find idiosyncratic else. Meri said that erstwhile she saw that clip, she was confused, arsenic she was nether the content that they were trying to marque the narration work.

Although fans took this to mean the extremity of Meri and Kody’s marriage, the 2 didn’t really denote their divided until Jan. 10, 2023. They released a associated connection connected Instagram to stock the news. “After much than a decennary of moving connected our narration successful our ain unsocial ways, we person made the determination to permanently terminate our matrimony relationship,” the connection said. “During this process, we are committed to kindness and respect toward each different and to each members of our family, and we are committed to the continued healing of immoderate and each relationships wrong the family.”

Since leaving Kody, Meri has been enjoying her clip unsocial arsenic a azygous woman. She has documented clip spent with her pistillate friends connected Instagram. In fact, immoderate fans adjacent began asking question astir her sexuality, and successful Feb. 2023, Meri took to IG Live to confirm that she is straight. “It’s a communal taxable of whether oregon not I’m going to travel out,” Meri shared. “So determination you go. I’m coming retired arsenic straight.”

Janelle Brown

Kody Brown was introduced to 2nd woman Janelle by archetypal woman Mari. (Kcr/Shutterstock)

Believe it oregon not, it was Meri who introduced Kody to his 2nd wife, Janelle, Janelle, who “spiritually married” Kody successful 1993, shares six children with Kody: Logan, Hunter, Garrison, Gabriel, Maddie, and Savannah.

Sadly, Janelle and Kody confirmed they were separated successful 2022 aft astir 30 years together. The quality broke in a preview for a one-on-one Sister Wives special. And portion the quality was surely heartbreaking, it wasn’t precisely shocking. During their “spiritual marriage”, they faced hard times — particularly aft the COVID-19 pandemic started. Kody’s strict COVID-19 rules enactment a strain connected Janelle and Christine, and successful a 2022 occurrence of Sister Wives Janelle reflected connected whether she adjacent wanted to stay with Kody. She described their narration arsenic “strained” and shared it would beryllium “really easy” to locomotion distant from Kody.

At the time, however, Janelle inactive felt definite astir the benefits of a plural marriage. “What I anticipation polygamy to beryllium erstwhile I was younger ended up being thing precise antithetic from what I really lived,” she admitted. “But..I request to beryllium contiguous and beryllium grateful for the household that I have. I americium who I americium contiguous due to the fact that of polygamy. Because I lived it.”

But aft Christine near the family, Janelle reached her ain breaking constituent with Kody. “I don’t deliberation you and I cognize however to beryllium existent astir things with each other,” Kody said to Janelle successful the play 17 trailer. Janelle admitted, “He’s nary longer acting arsenic my hubby here.”

During the season 17 finale, Janelle expanded connected her and Kody’s separation. “At this point, it’s not love,” Janelle admitted. “It’s duty, it’s commitment, it’s religion that tells you you enactment it retired and instrumentality it out. I deliberation if we some sat down we’d look astatine each different and say…really? Kody and I person been separated and I’m happy, I’m truly happy.”

Christine Brown

Though Kody is lone legally joined to Robyn, helium remains “spiritually married” to Meri and Janelle. (Puddle Monkey Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock)

Christine Brown, who Kody met successful 1990 and welcomed into his plural matrimony successful 1994, was the archetypal of Kody’s wives to officially abstracted from him. The couple, whose narration fans watched spiral successful real-time connected Sister Wives, announced their separation successful November 2021, aft 25 years of marriage. Tensions ran precocious betwixt the mates particularly aft COVID-19 hit, arsenic Christine and Kody repeatedly bashed heads implicit his strict rules for the family. In a statement, Kody emphasized that helium and Christine would proceed to absorption connected co-parenting their six children, lad Paedon and girls Aspyn, Mykelti, Gwendlyn, Ysabel, and Truely.

Christine and Kody’s divided was the main storyline successful seasons 16 and 17 of their world show. The trailer showed Christine admitting that it’s been “heartbreaking” to beryllium Kody’s woman for years. She besides accused him of caring much astir Robyn, 1 of his different wives, than her.

Despite COVID seemingly being the breaking constituent for Christine and Kody, she said that she was having issues successful their marriage for rather immoderate clip earlier that. She besides grew frustrated with Kody erstwhile helium said helium nary longer wanted an intimate relationship with her. However, Kody insisted that it was Christine’s actions that led him to nary longer privation intimacy. He claimed that Christine was atrocious mouthing him to their kids down his back, which made him not spot her. Kody has insisted that spot is the astir important portion of a narration to him, truthful this deed him hard.

Christine told Kody that she wanted to permission him astatine the opening of 2021. She yet revealed that she planned to move distant from the family successful Arizona to live successful Utah. Christine besides shared that she planned to take the pair’s insignificant daughter, Truely, with her, which led to adjacent more tension with Kody. Kody was livid that Christine was making the determination to up and permission truthful quickly, but for Christine, it had been brewing for rather immoderate time. Christine officially made the determination to Utah successful the autumn of 2022.

By 2023, Christine had teased that she was dating idiosyncratic “exclusively,” but, astatine the time, she said she was keeping the narration backstage for a bit. Christine didn’t publically debut her caller man, David Woolley, until Valentine’s Day 2023. She made the uncover connected Instagram, writing, “I yet recovered the emotion of my life.”

Her captioned continued, “The archetypal clip helium held maine adjacent it felt similar my psyche took its archetypal breath. He’s fantastic and kind, unthinkable with my children and an adorable grandpa. I ne'er dreamed I could find a emotion similar this.” She besides included respective photos of the brace together.

Robyn Brown

When Robyn Brown met Kody, she saw a accidental for caller emotion and a 2nd act. A divorced ma of three, Robyn archetypal encountered Kody astatine religion successful 2009 and they “spiritually married” each different a twelvemonth later. After welcoming girl lad Solomon successful 2011, Robyn and Kody were legally joined successful 2014 truthful Kody could follow Robyn’s 3 children from her erstwhile marriage, David, Aurora, and Breanna. Robyn and Kody besides welcomed girl Ariella successful 2016.

Though Robyn was the past of Kody’s loves to travel into his life, it seems helium whitethorn beryllium focusing connected their narration much than ever. According to a 2022 report from Us Weekly, Kody began lone been spending clip with Robyn amid narration troubles with Meri, Christine and Janelle. Allegedl,  this rift adjacent stems to their children. “Kody’s stepkids from Robyn’s archetypal matrimony worship him and are truly adjacent to him, dissimilar the others,” Us Weekly‘s root revealed. “He has truly damaged his narration with the different kids.”

Robyn and her kids besides agreed to travel Kody’s COVID-19 rules, which is wherefore helium started spending much clip with them during the pandemic. Janelle and Christine continued to travel CDC guidelines, but were not sticking to the rules that Kody acceptable forth, truthful helium started spending little clip astatine their homes. Both Janelle and Christine person been unfastened astir their feelings that Kody favors Robyn to them. As of 2023, Robyn is Kody’s lone wife.

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