In some previews for Sunday’s episode of Sister Wives(October 9, 2022,) Kody tells Meri to move to Utah, and delusionally hopes that Christine stays in Flagstaff, Arizona. Meri was in Utah because her mother Bonnie had passed away. At the time she died Bonnie was the innkeeper for Meri’s Inn, Lizzie’s Heritage Inn, so Meri…
It’s been four years since the Brown family from TLC’s Sister Wives purchased four plots of undeveloped land near Flagstaff, Arizona that would become known as Coyote Pass. Kody Brown’s name is on the deed for all four plots, and each of the wives had their name on at least one of the plots. Thanks…
Since the Brown family has shared their story with the public they have claimed to have a more egalitarian setup in their plural marriage in which the women enjoy a depree of independence even as they all make decisions together. In the past few years, however, the family has fractured beyond repair, which resulted in…
In a preview for next week’s episode of Sister Wives Christine Brown reveals to her sister wives that she has left Kody and will be moving from Arizona to Utah. During their discussion Kody tells her he wants 50/50 custody of their daughter Truly despite never having spent 50% of is time with Truely before….
Sister Wives is better than ever and it’s attracting a lot of new fans. Are you new to the Brown family or just need a refresher? Here’s a quick rundown of everything that has happened since Sister Wives premiered more than a decade ago. Lehi, Utah (Seasons 1-2) When Sister Wives first airs in September…
After Kody and Christine Brown’s breakup talk, Kody came back to Christine’s house to talk again. He started off by telling her that he’s worried that they were making a mistake in splitting up. Christine explained to Kody that she had never thought that this would ever happen. Kody asked her if she felt relief…
Pretty much every adult in the Brown family of Sister Wives is going through a difficult time in their marriage. Although Janelle seems the most content, she’s dealing with the fact that her husband Kody has a terrible relationship with her sons Garrison and Gabe. Meri isn’t really in Kody’s life anymore despite the fact…
The Sister Wives Season 17 Premiere was almost entirely comprised of a conversation between Kody Brown and Christine Brown as they discussed their failing relationship after 27 years of marriage. A lot is revealed in what is said between the estranged spouses, but there is even more to unpack from the scenes if you read…
One of the remarks Kody Brown made during the breakthrough conversation with Christine about the end of his marriage was his claim that he was pressured into his marriage to Christine. He says he wasn’t attracted to her, and “didn’t know better at the time.” “So did he marry me out of an obligation?” Christine…
During Christine and Kody’s intense sit-down conversation about the end of their over 25-year marriage Christine brought up that their problems had been going on since they lived in Lehi, Utah 12 years ago. At the time they were filming season 1 of Sister Wives and Christine was pregnant with her daughter Truely. Kody remembers…
During the dramatic Sister Wives Season 17 Premiere, Kody Brown and Christine Brown have a lengthy conversation about the state of their relationship. The heated discussion includes the spouses’ different opinions on when things began to sour between them. Christine says their relationship started going bad when she was pregnant with her daughter Truely, and…
If there’s one thing a Sister Wives fan can predict it’s that every few seasons Kody Brown is going to uproot his family to start over new in a completely different state. Here’s the relatively definitive guide of everywhere the Brown family has lived: Pre-TLC Before the cameras started rolling on Sister Wives, Kody, Meri,…
In August of 2020, Christine Brown informed her then-husband Kody that their 17-year-old daughter Ysabel Brown would be getting much-needed spine surgery for her severe scoliosis in September. They would have to travel to New Jersey to get the surgery, which made Kody ask that the surgery be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. At…
There are many reasons why Sister Wives‘ Christine decided to leave Kody after a quarter century of marriage. The most important reason was he broke their daughter Ysabel’s heart by not being there for her spinal surgery. Towards the very end, though, another one of Christine’s final straws was the fact she thought Kody never…
As some viewers have suspected Christine Brown had planned to leave Kody Brown before the last Season, (16) even aired. Now, she’s revealing that she’s been wanting to leave polygamy for years. However, omething major happened in 2020 that sealed the ending of their spiritual marriage. Christine recently told People that she decided to leave…
Christine Brown is not only out of the marriage with Kody Brown, she also no longer owns land on the still undeveloped Coyote Pass property. Headlines have been reporting that Christine sold her share of the land to Kody and Robyn for only $10. That may not be the full story, though. What’s more likely…
Before Kody and Robyn Brown were spiritually married, they kept a secret from the other wives that deeply hurt his other wives. The sixth episode of Season 1 of Sister Wives was all about wedding planning for Robyn’s upcoming marriage to Kody. All five of the adults tasted wedding cakes, and Robyn took the three…
Fans of the long-running TLC Sister Wives were left shocked last season when Kody Brown’s third wife, Christine, decided to leave her 25-year marriage. In a move everyone suspected but no one saw coming, Christine left her polygamist family (who had relocated to Flagstaff, Arizona) and now lives in Utah near her her daughters Mykelti…
23-year-old Paedon Brown is speaking out in multiple interviews about his parents’ divorce. He has a fantastic relationship with his mom Christine, who now lives in the same state he lives in, but feels more distant from his dad Kody. However, he doesn’t judge Kody for choosing to spend his life with Robyn, who Peadon…
Many viewers are hoping for some kind of spin-off from Sister Wives’ Christine Brown after she divorced Kody. While she won’t be appearing on TV on her own, Christine does have a new web series. It’s a cooking show where she shares the recipes for some of her favorite tasty, easy-to-make dishes. “I’m Christine Brown,…
Although Christine Brown believes she is spiritually divorced from Kody Brown, her former sister wife Robyn doesn’t think the divorce is legit because it wasn’t done through the church. On Part 2 of the Sister Wives Season 16 One-on-One special (airing tonight, and streaming right now on Discovery +) interview host Sukanya Krishnan asks Robyn…
Kody Brown seems to no longer be actively participating in the polygamous lifestyle when it comes to love and romance. Though he still may consider himself to be spiritually married to three women at this point, he has expressed that he has no desire for romantic love or any sort of intimate bond with Meri….
Meri Brown revealed on Part 1 of the Sister Wives One-on-One special that airs tonight (Sunday, January 30, 2021) that she has not had a physical relationship with Kody in over 10 years, which is years before the Catfish scandal. Neither Kody nor Meri have gone into detail about why their relationship first broke apart,…
A big question from Sister Wives fans since Christine Brown left her polygamist marriage with Kody Brown as if she would seek out another polygamist marriage. In a teaser for next week’s sit-down Tell All (part 2) Christine lets the viewers know whether or not polygamy is still an option for her going forward. “I…
The divorce between Kody Brown and his third wife Christine Brown seems to have been going on for a long time before it was officially announced. Because they were never married legally, the idea of divorce is really up to how they define it spiritually for them. What does this mean for their religious beliefs?…
The nanny has been a central figure in the disintegration of the Brown family. Kody Brown settled down at Robyn’s house and stayed away from his other wives and kids for nine months after COVID-19 hit, and had poor communication about what needed to be done in order to see more of his large family….
During Season 8 of Sister Wives (filmed in 2014, aired in 2015,) the Brown family took a multi-stop road trip where Kody was invited to go fishing with his friend Ken. Christine was upset with this friend because he told Kody to divorce three of his wives, and she demanded that Kody ask for an…
On tonight’s episode of Sister Wives Kody reveals that Christine has an “employee.” He drops this in while talking about how their COVID precautions have an “economic” angle in that some of them have people they work with that could be exposed. This seems to be some sort of retaliation for the fact that Christine…
Kody Brown’s slide into utter disharmony with his family continues with Sunday night’s episode of Sister Wives. In the episode, Kody says he wants to evict his sons Garrison and Gabe from Janelle’s house and tries to explain why he’s being so Draconian with his rules: he says he’s going to hate “a bunch of”…
“You have a nanny over. She’s over all the time. I don’t understand why Ysabel can’t come over and hang out. She’s devastated,” Christine tells Kody in a preview for next week’s Sister Wives. In interview, Christine pointedly asks “What does the nanny do?” Robyn has help from a live-in nanny for years which is…
Tonight’s episode of Sister Wives documents Ysabel’s spine surgery to correct the 55-degree curve the then 17-year-old’s spine had developed because of scoliosis. At the point where she had the surgery, Ysabel was in constant pain every single day, and all she wanted to do was live pain-free. Did the surgery achieve a life with…
Scoliosis, which is a curve in the spine, has caused Ysabel Brown to live in constant pain for years. In the past, she tried alternative treatments, but in 2020 the pain got so bad that she wanted to undergo spinal surgery so she could live a pain-free life. In Season 15, her dad Kody Brown…
During episode 2 of Season 16 of Sister Wives Kody Brown mentions Truely’s kidney issues while discussing the family’s vulnerabilities concerning COVID-19. What happened with Truely’s kidneys and is she ok now? Truely’s illness was documented on Episodes 15-16 of Season 6, as well as other episodes that aired that season. The episodes aired in…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than a year since Ysabel Brown, the daughter of former Sister Wives couple Kody Brown and Christine Brown, had surgery to address her severe scoliosis! Ysabel traveled with her mom Christine (and without Kody) to New Jersey in late September of last year. “Ysabel is in…
When Christine Brown announced her long-anticipated divorce from Kody Brown, many Sister Wives fans celebrated with nachos. But why? While nachos are a tasty snack, their presence in Sister Wives lore is steeped in sadness. It all started in May 2012 when the Brown family published a memoir they co-wrote. Early in the book Kody…
Sister Wives star Christine Brown announced last week that she was leaving her husband Kody Brown after 27 years of marriage. Christine’s statement was very positive, but it was just three sentences and didn’t go into too much detail. However, Christine opened up about the choice to leave Kody and her life since the break…
The slow motion disintegration of the Brown family from TLC’s Sister Wives continues to play out on screen with a new season set to premiere on November 21. The preview trailer for the new season clearly shows that the tensions continue to mount between Kody and his four wives, tensions that we now know caused…
On Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Sister Wives’ Christine Brown and Kody Brown announced the end of their spiritual marriage after 27 years. There was no legal marriage, so no legal divorce is necessary. However, there are legal issues, like the fact that Christine has one underage child, Truely Grace, at home, and owns Coyote Pass…
After months of speculation, Sisters Wives stars Kody Brown and Christine Brown have confirmed that they have split. “After more than 25 years together, Kody and I have grown apart and I have made the difficult decision to leave,” Christine wrote in an Instagram text graphic earlier today. “We will continue to be a strong…
It looks as though Sister Wives star Christine Brown has given in to her desire to move back to Utah! Kody Brown’s second wife has sold her Flagstaff home, and in the paperwork she lists her address as a duplex near Salt Lake City! As we previously reported, Christine listed her Flagstaff home for $725,000…
Fans of TLC’s plural marriage reality series Sister Wives had to wait almost an entire year between previous seasons, but the wait for the return of the Brown family is much shorter this time around! TLC has just officially announced that Kody and his lady posse will return for a brand new season on November…
The Brown family of TLC’s Sister Wives can’t seem to stay in one place for more than a couple years. Less than two months after Kody Brown’s second wife Janelle Brown revealed that she has moved into a fifth wheel camper on Coyote Pass, his third wife Christine Brown has put her house up for…
Sister Wives patriarch Kody Brown, his four fives, and their children made the impromptu move from Las Vegas, Nevada to Flagstaff, Arizona in the summer of 2018. The family purchased a large piece of land there with plans to eventually build a single large house for the entire family, or one house for each of…
One of the many cliffhangers left after the Sister Wives Season 15 finale is whether or not Christine Brown’s daughter, Ysabel Brown, was able to get the spinal surgery she needed to correct the painful curvature of her spine due to scoliosis. On the finale, Kody attempted to convince Christine and Ysabel to delay the…
It has been an incredibly difficult season for Kody Brown and his four sister wives, culminating in an incredibly dramatic finale that ***SPOILER ALERT*** hints that Christine Brown may be leaving Kody and her three sister wives behind. The season finale was filmed last summer, so what has happened in the mean time? Did Christine…
During tonight’s episdoe of Sister Wives, Kody briefly left Janelle’s house to take Christine on a driving date. All the adults seem to have different interpretations on how they should treat social distancing during the pandemic, but there is a deeper issue keeping the family apart. Even though Kody and Christine are having pretty severe…
Season 15, Episode 4 of TLC’s Sister Wives dives deep into the hierarchical structures that can plague polygamous relationships from the lens of Christine Brown’s personal experience feeling like a “Basement Wife” in relation to her husband Kody Browns’ other wives, who she often sees as “Queen Bees.” For the past six years, Christine has…
The Brown family is back! Or at least they will be back when Sister Wives returns for a brand new season on January 20! TLC just released the very first preview trailer for Sister Wives Season 13, which will feature 11 brand new episodes with television’s most popular polygamist Kody Brown and his four wives:…
Earlier this year, the Brown Family announced a big change: they are moving to Arizona. The family of 18 decided to leave their four-house compound in Las Vegas in search of new beginnings in Flagstaff. In an interview with TLC, Sister Wives stars Robyn, Kody, and Christine discuss the reasons for the move. “We’re moving…
The Browns are quickly gaining on the Duggars for the title of TLC reality show family with the most engagement announcements! The latest Sister Wives star all set to tie the knot is Aspyn, daughter of Kody and his third wife Christine. 22-year-old Aspyn said “yes” to her 25-year-old burly beau Mitch Thompson during a…
It has been a loooooooooong time since Sister Wives fans have been able to get their polygamy drama fix with a new episode, but that is all about to change come January 7 when the Brown family returns for a brand new season! This season fans will see the post-whirlwind-romance wedding of Mykelti and Tony,…
Christine Brown, star of TLC’s reality TV series Sister Wives, received quite a shock when her daughter Mykelti brought up the subject of marriage during last week’s season premiere. Mykelti, who is 19 years old, had only been dating her boyfriend Tony for five months before she told her mother that he wanted to ask…
We have some exciting news for fans of Sister Wives as Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn are going to be grandparents for the first time! Janelle’s oldest daughter Maddie Brush and her husband Caleb Brush have just announced she is pregnant with their first child! The couple broke the baby news via People magazine…
Sister Wives stars Kody Brown and his four wives have 18 kids and counting, but unlike traditional monogamous families, the Brown children are not evenly spaced out at least nine months apart. So, with the older children becoming young adults, that means LOTS of college tuition and lots of engagements and weddings! Last fall we…
Sisters Wives star Kody Brown and his family won a huge victory for polygamy in December of 2013 when U.S. District Court judge Clarke Waddoups ruled in the family’s favor in their lawsuit against the state of Utah, all but legalizing polygamy in the state. Earlier this week, the Brown family’s legal roller coaster ride…
Sister Wives‘ Brown family is continuing their legal battle with the state of Utah to decriminalize the cohabitation part of polygamy laws — and are using the Supreme Court’s recent gay marriage ruling in their argument. “It is clear that states can no longer use criminal codes to coerce or punish those who choose to…
TLC announced today that the sixth season of Sister Wives will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 13. With Robyn Brown’s new pregnancy and the family’s ever-changing dynamics, it promises to be an interesting batch of new episodes. Here is what is in store, per TLC’s description to The Wrap… Kody and the sister wives — Meri,…
The polygamist Brown family of TLC’s Sister Wives have been in the media spotlight over the last month after we broke the story on February 1 that family patriarch Kody Brown had divorced his legal wife Meri Brown in September and later legally married his fourth wife, Robyn Brown, in December. TLC and the Brown…
After the Brown family of TLC’s Sister Wives found fame by exposing their taboo lifestyle on television, it opened up a possibility in the minds of Americans that polygamist families can be very modern and happy. Last year year the Darger family came out too, giving television interviews, and publishing a book about their family called Love Times Three.
The Dargers are definitely unique.
Although all Utah criminal bigamy charges have been dropped for the Sister Wives‘ Brown Family, it still is a third-degree felony in the state to just say you have more than one wife (as in, not filing the legal documents, but having “spiritual” marriages like the Browns have.) Because of that, the Browns are fighting back, and have filed a lawsuit against Utah in an attempt to get a “federal judge to overturn the state’s bigamy law as unconstitutional.”
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