It was already difficult keeping up with the 21 family members on TLC’s hit reality series Sister Wives which features Utah polygamist Kody Brown and his four wives, but throw in the fact that some of the children are from a previous marriage and that one of the sister wives was married to a brother of another sister wife, and what you’re left with is a big ol’ polygamuddy mess!
So we combined some professional-grade ancestegery with a bit of graphic design and came up with a “family tree” that should help simplify matters. (We recommend that regular viewers of the show print it out, laminate it and use it whenever watching Sister Wives.)
***This post was created in October of 2010 so all the ages were as of that date.
Here’s the information in harder-to-digest text form:
Kody Brown, 42
1st wife: Meri, 39
Children with Meri:
Daughter Mariah, 14
2nd wife: Janelle, 41
Previously married to Adam Barber, 41 (no children)
Adam Barber is the brother of Kody’s 1st wife Meri
Children with Janelle:
Son Logan, 15
Daughter Madison, 14
Son Hunter, 13
Son Garrison, 11
Son Gabriel, 8
Daughter Savanah, 5
3rd wife: Christine, 37
Children with Christine:
Daughter Aspyn, 14
Daughter Mykelti, 13
Son Paedon, 11
Daughter Gwendlyn, 8
Daughter Ysabel, 6
Daughter Truely, under 1
4th wife Robyn, 32
Previously married to David Preston Jessop, 31
Children with Kody Brown: 1 pending! (Robyn is set to give birth October 2011)
Children with David Jessop:
David, Jr. (now known as Dayton), 10
Aurora, 8
Breanna, 6
Kinda creepy that some of the kids are the same age. KWIM?
He likes his wives barefoot and pregnant, I guess. I wanted to cry when he suggested Meri try IVF. Here she is(well, was) studying psychology and working in the mental health field, and he wants her preggo (and given her history and age, I’d assume she would be classed as ‘high risk” which would give him a reason to ‘suggest’ that she stay home).
ARGH. This show makes me so mad…but I can’t stop watching it!
Kody only suggested IVF because Meri’s desire to have another child. He told her it was completely her choice. She always wanted lots of kids but was not able to have them. I think Kody seems like a caring husband and father.
It’s kind of like a bad car accident. You know you probably shouldn’t just stare, but you can’t help it!!
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He is a pig and his 4 wives must not have any self respect.
I really enjoy getting to know them – I don’t believe in polygamy because I just couldn’t share the intimacy of my husband with another, but it seems to work for them and they seem like a terrific family and I’m really glad to learn about their lifestyle becuase it changed a lot of preconceived ideas for me. The women are strong women and know what they’re doing and choose it.
They forgot to mention that Janelle’s mother is Kody’s dad’s second(sister)wife. Head spinning yet?
Yeah, we made this chart before that info was revealed. We need to update it.
Better a family with 4 moms and one dad than one mom on drugs or worse and a absent dad there is always some one home to care and be there for the childern what is the problem with that they all work together
It only makes sense that they have deep ties. I don’t think that is a negative.