It’s no secret that Robyn Brown has always dreamed of a big, happy, polygamous family. However, being legally married to husband Kody Brown was clearly not always part of that vision.
In Sunday’s episode on December 29 Sister wivesRobyn, as well as Kody’s ex-wives Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown, discussed the decision Meri, 53, made to divorce Kody, 55, so he could legally marry Robyn, 46.
Kody said he “never felt like the divorce did anything to us.”
“Meri volunteered to do it, but for some reason it still had an emotional impact on her because she went through a soma experience shortly after,” Kody told the cameras, talking about how Meri – who was his first wife – caught by a female fan pretending to be a man.
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Meri, meanwhile, said in a separate confessional that she feels a legal divorce from Kody is what “needs to be done.” Afterwards, she recalled that the Brown family patriarch was “really nice” and “present in our relationship for about a month” before things fizzled out. She then said the catfishing incident happened a few months later.
Noting that “legal marriage really seemed very important to Meri,” Janelle, 55, told the cameras that she suspected it wasn’t Meri’s idea to legally divorce Kody. “I was actually speechless when she told us that she was actually doing it, because I thought Meri would never do that. I was already starting to see that there was a little bit of favoritism for Robyn over Kody at that point, and I was worried,” she recalled. .
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(L-R) Christine Brown, Janelle Brown, Kody Brown, Robyn Brown and Meri Brown are pictured in a still for ‘Sister Wives’ Season 10. TLC
From Christine’s perspective, the 52-year-old recalled that “when Robyn first came to the family, she started talking to us about these other families where the first wife divorced her husband so he could legally marry another wife and legally adopt the children. ”
Christine claimed that Robyn brought this up to “plant” the idea into the family’s heads, noting that she had “brought it up a few times over the years, like she was putting it out there because she would like to see it happen.”
“I don’t think Meri felt like she was framed,” she added. “I think Meri felt like it was her idea.”
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(L-R) Kody Brown and Robyn Brown are pictured together in 2010.
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On the contrary, Robyn claimed that the claim that she “planted the idea in Mera’s head is an absolute lie”.
“I’ve never said that. I don’t even know anyone who’s divorced their first wife so the second wife can adopt the kids. I’ve never even heard of that before,” Robyn told the cameras. “Meri told me when she made the offer that while we were dating, she had an idea in her head to offer me legal marriage so that Kody could adopt my children.”
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From there, Robyn stated, “I never even wanted to be legally married to Kody.”
“I was actually very thankful that I wouldn’t be legally married to Kody because I went through so much trauma with my legal divorce in my last marriage,” she added. “I was very happy and satisfied with my spiritual marriage. I didn’t need anything else.”
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Robyn Brown is featured in ‘Sister Wives’.
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Robyn joined the Brown family in 2010 as Kody’s fourth wife. He was already legally married to Meri since 1990, while he was also spiritually married to Janelle since 1993 and Christine since 1994.
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In 2014, Meri legally divorced Kody so he could legally marry Robyn to adopt her children from a previous marriage. The longtime couple eventually divorced in 2023 after three decades of marriage, and Meri later obtained an official divorce through their church for desertion.
Janelle and Christine also ended their marriage to Kody in the months leading up to his split from Meri.
Sister wives airs Sundays at 10pm ET on TLC.
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