Sister Wives’ Robyn Brown Says She ‘By no means Even Wished to Be Legally Married’ to Kody

It is no secret that Robyn Brown has at all times dreamed of getting a giant, completely happy, polygamous household. But, a authorized marriage to husband Kody Brown was apparently not at all times a part of that imaginative and prescient.

On the Sunday, Dec. 29 episode of Sister Wives, Robyn, in addition to Kody’s ex-wives Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown, mentioned the choice Meri, 53, made to divorce Kody, 55, in order that he might legally marry Robyn, 46.

Kody shared that he “by no means felt like that authorized divorce did something to us.”

“Meri volunteered it however for some motive, it nonetheless had an emotional influence on her as a result of shortly after was when she went by means of the catfish expertise,” Kody instructed the cameras, referencing how Meri — who was his first spouse — was catfished by a feminine admirer pretending to be a person.

Meri, in the meantime, famous in a separate confessional how she felt legally divorcing Kody was what she “wanted to do.” After that, she recalled the Brown household patriarch being “actually sort” and “current in our relationship for, you recognize, a month or so” afterward earlier than issues dissipated. She then stated the catfishing incident occurred a number of months later.

Noting how “the authorized marriage actually appeared essential to Meri,” Janelle, 55, instructed the cameras how she suspected it wasn’t Meri’s concept to legally divorce Kody. “I used to be really form of speechless when she instructed us that she was really doing it, as a result of I assumed Meri would by no means do that. I already had began to see that there was a bit little bit of favoritism for Robyn from Kody at that time, and I did fear,” she recalled.

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From Christine’s perspective, the 52-year-old remembered that “when Robyn first got here into the household, she began speaking to us about these different households the place the primary spouse divorced the husband so he might marry the second spouse legally and legally undertake the youngsters.”

Christine claimed that Robyn introduced this as much as “plant” the thought into the household’s heads, noting how she “talked about that a number of instances by means of the years, like she was placing that in there as a result of she would have cherished that to occur.”

“I do not assume Meri felt prefer it was planted,” she added. “I believe Meri felt prefer it was her personal concept.”

Quite the opposite, Robyn claimed the allegation that she “planted an concept in Meri’s head is an absolute lie.”

“I by no means stated it. I do not even know anybody who divorced their first spouse in order that the second spouse might undertake children. I’ve by no means even heard of that earlier than,” Robyn instructed the cameras. “Meri instructed me when she made the provide that once we had been attending to know one another, she had had the thought in her head to supply to offer me the authorized marriage in order that Kody might undertake my children.”

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From there, Robyn declared: “I by no means even needed to be legally married to Kody.”

“I used to be really actually grateful that I wasn’t going to be legally married to Kody as a result of I might gone by means of a lot trauma with my authorized divorce in my final marriage,” she added. “I used to be very completely happy and content material with my non secular marriage. I did not want anything.”

Robyn joined the Brown household in 2010 as Kody’s fourth spouse. He had already been married to Meri legally since 1990 whereas additionally being spiritually wed to Janelle since 1993 and Christine since 1994.

In 2014, Meri legally divorced Kody in order that he might wed Robyn legally to undertake her kids from her earlier marriage. The longtime couple ultimately separated in 2023 after three a long time of marriage, and Meri later obtained an official termination of the wedding by means of their church on the grounds of abandonment.

Janelle and Christine additionally ended their marriages to Kody within the months main as much as his separation from Meri.

Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.