Meri Brown reflects on what she learned about herself after her split from ex Kody Brown last year.
The Sister wives star, 52, tells PEOPLE that after her 32-year marriage ended, she realized she was “a pretty amazing person.”
“I’m pretty badass, I’ll just say it,” she says. “I am very self-confident and I know what I deserve, I am a very good business person and I know how to create safe boundaries around myself. And, yes, it’s pretty good. I’m not too shabby.”
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Meri also says there are “a lot of misconceptions” about her, saying: “People always tell me you don’t know what you’re worth. You have no value. Just really derogatory about me.”
“And it’s like, ‘No. In fact, I know what I’m worth, and I know what my value is, and I know what my values are,'” she explains. “And that’s why I worked so long to try to save my marriage.”
She adds: “A lot of people look at it like it’s because I waited so long [to end the marriage], that means I don’t trust you. It’s like, maybe look on the other side, I have confidence and that’s why I waited so long to figure it out. So I think that’s a huge, huge misconception.”
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The TLC star notes that she “gave it 100 percent” before announcing her split from Kody in December 2022, saying, “I did everything I could. And if I had left earlier, I would always have the question in my head, did I do everything I could? But I’m very confident knowing I did everything I could and I’m very at peace with when it happened and how it all played out.”
Despite the end of the marriage, the reality star says she would do it all over again.
“There are definitely things in the last three decades that I would have done differently, different conversations that I would have had. But I mean, hindsight is 20/20, right?” she says. “You don’t know until you know, and there’s a lot of things that I didn’t know, Kody didn’t know, all of us didn’t know 20 years ago, 30 years ago.”
She continues, “So I think my family and the life I’ve lived and all the experiences I’ve had have only contributed to who I am now, so I have no regrets at all.”
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Mary Brown and Kody Brown. Mary Brown Instagram; Puddle Monkey Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock ‘Sister Wives’ ‘ Meri Brown Focuses On ‘Dreams’ And ‘Passions’ After Kody Split: ‘Every One Of Us Is Worth It’
On Sunday’s episode of TLC, Meri recalled the early days of her marriage to the Brown family patriarch and the “disappointing” way they split.
“I know the person he was when we got married. I know we were a couple,” she said as moments from their 1990 wedding flashed on the screen.
Although she and Kody have drifted apart, Meri admitted that she is “proud of myself” and “the person that I am.”
She admitted, “It’s just sad to me that he couldn’t see that there’s value in, you know, three decades of history.”
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Sister wives airs Sundays at 10pm ET on TLC.
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