Sister Wives’ Robyn Brown Says She ‘Never Even Wanted to Be Legally Married’ to Kody

It’s no secret that Robyn Brown has at all times dreamed of getting an enormous, glad, polygamous household. Yet, 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 purpose, it nonetheless had an emotional influence on her as a result of shortly after was when she went by 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 form” and “current in our relationship for, you recognize, a month or so” afterward earlier than issues dissipated. She then mentioned the catfishing incident occurred a number of months later.

Noting how “the authorized marriage actually appeared crucial to Meri,” Janelle, 55, instructed the cameras how she suspected it wasn’t Meri’s thought to legally divorce Kody. “I used to be truly form of speechless when she instructed us that she was truly doing it, as a result of I assumed Meri would by no means do that. I already had began to see that there was somewhat 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 concept into the household’s heads, noting how she “talked about that a number of instances by the years, like she was placing that in there as a result of she would have beloved that to occur.”

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

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

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

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

“I used to be truly actually grateful that I wasn’t going to be legally married to Kody as a result of I’d gone by a lot trauma with my authorized divorce in my final marriage,” she added. “I used to be very glad 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 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.