I’m pissed off i’m pissed off man the sacrifices that i made to love you wasted and you’re running away that’s not true oh man i cannot believe i i cannot believe that i have done all this i’m exhausted who cares if you’re not with me here gu me f off and that’s the reason i pissed for the sacrifices that i made to love you what what sorry so you were not physically attracted to christine that’s understand ironically no he’s trying to support me and i don’t want to be in a relationship with her anymore [music]
One man four wives 17 seasons on a reality show 18 children but in 2022 this complicated family completely fell apart sparking tons of drama and debate over the sister wives reality show i am absolutely shook even though this was very expected and that is how everything in the brown family is starting to fall apart before our very eyes many people rooting for the women who chose to leave their marriages so how was such a bizarre and controversial show created and what caused the show and family to completely fall apart the sister wives
Television show which has been airing on tlc since 2010 followed the lives of cody brown and his four wives mary janelle christine and robin who are all members of the polygamous sect known as the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter-day saints f ls that’s a mouthful to say and who practiced polygamy as members of the apostolic united brethren a morman fundamentalist group the show generated a significant amount of controversy and sparked wide debate over polygamy and the treatment of women in polygamous relationships one
Of the main controversies surrounding the show was whether or not it accurately portrayed polygamous relationships some critics argued that the show sanitized and glamorized polygamy trying to portray it as a loving and harmonious lifestyle that makes things easier for women cuz they have more independence i always wanted sister wives uh i just like the idea of the companionship i like the idea of the freedom that it got me when i married cody when janelle married cody when christine married cody when robin married cody each one of us made a
Commitment to each other like to all of us when in fact many people think polygamy is a form of ownership over women and discrimination on top of that no experts on the topic have ever been brought in to speak on the issues surrounding polygamy and the show does give a very one-sided look into life of the plural marriages of the brown family a little welcome to the club [music] throughout 17 seasons of tlc’s hit show sister wives viewers have watched cody mary janelle christine and robin weather several ups and downs with their 18
Children the browns decided that it was time for them to stop living in fear and show the world their lifestyle on the tlc reality show sister wives in the plous lifestyle you’re really really raised with fear to fear like the outside world and everything and now here we are in the open and we get to be wives everywhere we go we get to own our family 100% and our kids get to own their family 100% that’s very different from the way i was raised where i was in hiding so much of the time after its first season sister wives drew national
Attention and garnered mixed reviews from critics washington post staff writer hank stuver called it refreshingly frank and found most most interesting the small details of the family’s everyday life such as the food supply division of labor and minor arguments la times television critic m namara said she was intrigued by the matriarchal nature of the polygamist family a unit that is traditionally considered patriarchal mcnamara said the wives form the center of the family and that their bonds appear far stronger and
More vital than the casual fondness with which they all treat cody we’ve been together we’ve been together for a long time for like 15 16 years ho freak forever shut up so we get along well now because we have our we’ve worked through our issues you know what it’s just a constant thing it’s like any other friendship that you have there’s ups there’s downs there’s you know you learn you it’s the eb and flow of the relationship and we learned each other’s quirks the big family thing was always really cool to me i loved when i first um met you guys
How you guys functioned i loved it before i even fell in love with cody i fell in love with the family and the family culture of one big happy family in 2010 when the brown family made an appearance on the oprah show oprah said she found the relationship between the sister wives particularly fascinating what made you all decide to do this show sister wives on tlc how did that come about the society tends to be fairly closed mhm and uh we we just felt this um compelling desire to make the society more transparent m just the society of
Polygamy yes yeah yeah and we figured that by showing our lives we’d actually help the society be more transparent have other people in the in the lifestyle feel safer about being transparent but not everyone viewed the show in such a positive light pristine seer an associate professor of communication said the show could give viewers who are unfamiliar with the lds church the inc correct assumption that polygamy is accepted by the mainstream church the women on the sister wives don’t seem to be living in any danger
Necessarily but many people believe that the sister wives are literally a cult and that showcasing their life style could be really unhealthy especially for younger viewers and especially because the show became so so popular and mainstream and received really high ratings [music] according to neelen media research the september 26 2010 1our premiere episode of sister wives drew 2.
26 million viewers which was a really strong rating for the network at the time in the second week the first episode drew 1.8 million viewers the second 2.1 million sister wives drew its strongest ratings during the fourth and final week of the first season with 2.6 million viewers for the first episode and 2.
7 million for the season finale basically the show was a massive hit i mean if you watched my most recent video on the kardashians towards the end of keeping up with the kardashians they weren’t even pulling in nearly those numbers when the series premiered in 2010 cody brown at the time was legally married to his first wife mary brown and spiritually married to his two other wives janelle brown and christine brown i’m like oh wow he’s such a baby it has been a long time i’ve been married 17 years yeah i’ve been married for 16 years but viewers were
Quickly introduced to cody’s fourth wife robin brown so her name is robin she’s 30 and she grew up in the polygamous lifestyle i am a single divorced mother of three and the first season of the show followed robin’s integration into the family as the other wives had all been married to cody for the last 16 years i’m sorry but with robin coming along it just changes everything it just changes everything it shakes everything it’s it’s just going to be a new a new adjustment adjustment yeah which is just an odd dynamic i can only
Imagine imagine having your whole kind of family setup established for 16 years and then a new person all of a sudden comes into the picture you can’t leave your family you here you are replacing your family with robin and her kids and it was hard and um at the same point i realized that it needed to happen but it didn’t necessarily make it easier it’s definitely a lot to grapple with so i’m sure you’re wondering how did all these people meet and agree to be in a plural marriage and especially with this man
How did they agree to that and why so here is the timeline of cody’s marriages to mary janelle christine and robin cody and mary brown after growing up in a polygamous family of her own mary is one of 25 siblings mary first met cody in 1989 and married him the following year my dad took his first plural life when i was like 11 years old i had a lot of years with other moms and other siblings that weren’t just from my mom so it wasn’t out of the ordinary for me mary was cody’s only legal wife for years ever since they got married but in
2014 while on the sister wives reality show cody divorced mary so that he could legally marry robin but mary remained spiritually married to cody after their legal divorce at the time the browns said in a statement that they had chosen to legal ally restructure their family and that the decision was made as a unit i was talking to him about getting a um legal divorce yeah so that you guys can get married and then try to adopt the kids oh i got it um however this choice was still an emotional one for mary i mean i can only
Imagine imagine having a husband for 25 years and then they divorce you to marry someone else but then still expect you to stay in the picture i mean i don’t know anyone who would be okay with that outside of i guess the sister wives her divorce that might be a good idea i need let cody know that we’re divor i just have to laugh about it cuz it just feels so stupid to me in 2016 mary became embroiled in a catfishing scandal after she entered into an online relationship with someone who she thought was another
Man but actually turned out to be a woman who was a fan of the show i started talking to this person online and he was just just saying all the right things they have no idea how bad it is they don’t know what i’m wr to the family cody and mary started therapy to deal with the fallout from the situation but their relationship became more platonic than romantic after that i’m not staying at her house we’ve been trying to basically work out our relationship so we can save it if you will it’s a estranged marriage my
Relationship with mary is at best just distant and amicable like the relationship between he and i is gone it’s dead it’s over i love how this scandal is that mary had a catfishing incident and that was supposedly such a horrible thing for mary to do when cody literally divorced her after almost 25 years of marriage so that he could marry someone else but then 2 years later she talks to someone on the internet and and apparently that’s what ruined the relationship yeah that makes sense that’s logical in april of 2021 mary shared on
Sister wives that she and cody were celebrating their non anniversary cuz we’re not a couple but we’re in a family i helped start this family it was me and him we had plans and he loved me mary’s trying to support me and i don’t want to be in a relationship with her anymore cody and janelle brown 3 years after cody and mary wed their family officially became a plural marriage after he spiritually married janelle brown and cody and janelle went on to welcome six children together sons logan hunter garrison and gabriel as well as
Daughters madison and savannah janelle opened up to people in 2010 about their polygamous family life noting that the group had both really good and really bad days especially when it came to raising multiple teenagers in a single home i love the whole idea of the whole family and this whole group’s energy and i really felt like we would get progression right the whole idea is that we overcome our crap yeah the whole purpose we truly believe of living plural marriage is that you have to learn how to not be selfish in 2021 cody
And janelle’s relationship also made headlines after it was reported that janelle was living in an rv parked on the brown coyote pass property in flagstaff arizona and she later said she was having doubts about whether plural marriage was still for her like i’m basically it feels like i’m being forced to choose between my children and this group i don’t feel like my children are welcome in november of 2022 cody described the relationship with him and janelle as antagonistic following janelle’s move into the trailer i don’t
Think janelle or i are being honest or real in this relationship as we communicate with each other about this stuff i do think you cody focus like you’re like oh my god nobody wanted to be together and to be honest with you i really don’t know if i want to do the work cody and christine brown cody met christine in 1990 though the pair didn’t go on their first date until valentine’s day in 1994 the following month they entered into a spiritual marriage and christine became the third wife to join the polygamous family something i
Thought was really interesting is that christine’s family is actually polygamy royalty of sorts the al red family that christine brown was aart of was actually a very known polygamist family within polygamy her grandfather was owen alred who was the leader of the au after ruan’s assassination and had a total of 13 wives i like the example that my grandma’s were for sure they were just really close and after my grandpa died they just stayed together so i like the sisterhood to me that’s what family was was a lot of grandmas then i had two
Moms and so that’s what a normal family was to me was a lot of moms christine’s aunt kristen decker left her polygamous marriage when she was 50 years old in kristen’s book 50 years in polygamy big secrets and little white lies she calls out the au as a cult she claims that the teachings led to members being physically mentally emotionally and sexually abused and kristen believes that all women practicing plural marriage are victims of sex trafficking and were gred by the teaching of the church and by the other wives decker now
Runs the sound choices coalition a nonprofit that helps people escape polygamist groups like the au christine comes from a long line of women who have escaped polygamy christine’s mother left her faith and her plural marriage after her children were grown went downhill really fast we just didn’t get along when she started having children and when we were together with the kids we were great as moms for the kids being moms is a lot easier than being sister wives when i was five my dad married my other mom and so i had two moms from 5
Years old on and i loved it and i just remember watching them just thinking how great it would be to have sister wives and just partially from their example but christine has said on sister wives that the choice to have a plural family was always something she saw for herself i only ever wanted to be a third wife i never wanted to be first at all i only ever wanted to be a third because it sounded the easiest i always wanted sister w uh i just like the idea of the companionship i like the idea of the freedom that it got me i honestly want a
Sister wives more than a husband for a good time my life after their union cody and christine welcomed six children of their own daughters aspen melty gwendelyn isabelle truly and son peyton cody and robin brown robin became the fourth and final wife to join the plural family after meeting cody at church in 2009 though she and cody were only initially spiritually married they made their union legal in 2014 after he divorced mary so that could adopt robin’s three children from her previous marriage son dayton and daughters aurora
And brianna they’ve also since welcomed more children together son solomon and daughter ariela making the total of children that cody has 18 children throughout the years fans and the sister wives themselves have noticed that cody and robin seem to have the closest relationship it would be nice if i if i had a husband who who would see my perspective as much as he seems to see robins which at times led to tension in the home as all the other wives blatantly saw that cody had a favorite wife do you believe that
Robin is the favorite wife i feel like and my children feel like he has been disproportionate in the amount of time that he spends there i think he has a favorite wife and that’s why all of this is like it is that’s just what it comes down to i think he has a the favorite wife is robin the favorite wife you know that’s the most unfair question cuz you don’t have any idea what work she has done what she has done as a person the sacrifices that she’s made but robin said that her relationship with cody was a result of
How the other wives treated him they handed him to me they handed him to me and said we don’t want to spend time with him basically well after 25 years of marriage i sure you get a little sick of the person especially if you’re married to this guy you’re telling me you wouldn’t get sick of him plural marriage isn’t all beer and skittles you know the brown family followers have spent more than 10 years watching the plural family on sister wives and during those 10 years they’ve disected the personalities and dynamics between each
Family member while cody brown has very very few fans if any each of his four wives have at least some fans but there’s one wife that has fewer fans and far more haters than the others and that’s robin brown cody’s fourth and final wife robin has been heavily criticized by fans over the years so why do fans dislike her so much i’m going to be honest and say i was convinced too that robin also had an anxious attach att m style but really she started slipping up when the pandemic hit and during that season that’s when i
Was like oh it’s you the call is in the house it’s you it’s not cody it’s you sister wives fans think robin brown is manipulative it’s hard to say how well cody and his three wives were doing before robin came along but fans still believe that robin joining the family was the tipping point for everyone the issue is is that robin continuously acts like she’s oblivious to cody’s actions when everything he is doing is for her they have talked about all of these things and yet she completely pretends that she doesn’t know what’s going on
Fans think that robin manipulates situations and has managed to turn everyone against each other in the family’s book becoming sister wives robin noted that she was apprehend ensive about joining the brown family because of the number of wives cody had when they met we all know that this isn’t all rainbows and flowers when they’re going through this process of seeing me fall in love with somebody else where i don’t want to hurt anybody and i don’t want to um make anybody uncomfortable it’s it’s a little bit difficult for me you you’ve got robin
Going i’m not going to hurt them and i’m like i’m sorry there’s no way around that the way she speaks about joining the family made fans believe that polygamy was not her first choice and was only something she considered because she had already been divorced well the cool thing about it is is you got people all over you mothering your kids and and even i mean like even with cody too i mean like them all just helping out that’s one of the cool things about it many fans have noticed that robin tries to pull the strings in
The plural family to get what she wants from cody in robin’s culture manipulating your way into being the favorite wife is the only method you have to ensure that you and your children are taken care of and it is our biological urge to want to ensure that our children are taken care of but if things turn around for her she tries to play the victim for example there’s been times that the other wives have called cody out for acting unfairly and favoring robin i’ve thought about this a lot lately because i’ve told friends
Recently that i didn’t want to be an advocate of plural marriage anymore because i am more aware now than i ever was before the apparent and obvious unfairness in the relationship some are up some are down but it’s you know it’s always changing i know i have all the love i want and you guys sometimes feel like you’re pining constantly for me to you know give you some but fans notice that he returns right back to robin and just backtracks on everything he had said robin’s the only good communicator in this whole
Family i’m communicator there’s a term they use for robin it’s called circling the donkey it’s where the donkey is roped to the grinder and it’s grinding the meal and that donkey just goes around and around and around and around cuz robin gets to the bottom of the problem it’s an unfair term for her but the fact is is it’s a compliment and fans believe that this is because robin pulls the strings i mean girl boss we love a matriarch is it really her fault for cody being spineless c rules that favor robin’s kids one thing that’s specifically
Talked about in the sister wives fandom are the covid-19 rules that cody and robin put in place you did did not give me those rules till 2 weeks before thanksgiving so from march until thanksgiving i had no rules those those were no you didn’t you did too that’s not true after this year the way that we have treated each other this year through co no robin is absolutely right here co exposed us none of the other wives were allowed to visit them nor were their children but despite that strict rule robin went out and
Hired a nanny in that same year what is the nanny and her husband doing that makes it so they can come over cuz cu when i’m home i do exactly what i should yet my girls can’t see their siblings what does the nanny do this nanny was caring for her children meanwhile the other wives weren’t even allowed to come over and visit with the family when the other wives and their children were finally able to visit there were rules about how close they could be and no one was allowed in inside the house and this upset a lot of the sister wives not just
Because they couldn’t see someone that they were spiritually married to but also because of the way it affected their children who are heartbroken at not being able to see their dad robin bad mouths the other wives fans have also noticed that robin brown bad mouths the other wives i listen to german industrial rock older rapper like eminem you when we were in vegas she went to several rock concerts and wore black t-shirts and heavy makeup and stuff oh no i had some snakes skin leggings and a ratty black t-shirt take
Top thing so yeah fans think she’s tried her best to tear down the other relationships that cody has probably out of insecurity and struggling with the fact that your husband is also married to three other women i mean i know very few people no what am i talking about i don’t know very many people i know nobody who could handle that i think most people that just creates a system ripe for insecurity jealousy and comparing yourself to other people in this plural marriage constantly lately robin has also been accused of scamming
Her fellow sister wives out of money particularly janelle during the november 13th 2022 episode of sister wives janelle said she can’t leave her spiritual husband cody brown because has no assets in her name janelle ended up sharing that when she sold her vegas home she gave half the proceeds to robin to help towards the purchase of robin and cody’s $900,000 home in flagstaff so robin is living like a queen in a 4,000 plus square foot five bed four bath home and janelle is living in an rv on the flagstaff property with no assets in her
Name it’s a very very nice fifth wheel has two bedrooms two bathrooms you’re moving out onto the property yeah it seems so crazy does it seem crazy only to me it can’t seem crazy only to me honestly i gave half the proceeds from my house in vegas to rob him to help purchase the house she’s in currently we also at this time pulled a lot of money from the joint family account to help get her into that house janelle stated and fans believe janelle is being scammed by robin and cody because for years she was the main bread
Winner working as a real estate agent and now no one is paying her back or helping her with her living situation she guilted mary out of going to college last but not least another instance that really upset fans was when robin talked mary out of going to college and when the topic of going to college was brought up robin was quick to tear mary down i’ve been thinking a lot about needing to do something for me [music] okay i’m going to go back to college and i’m going to do it starting fall semester sorry no [music]
I’m going to school and getting a degree and having that accomplishment is just really important to me and then you eventually you get your degree and then what do you do then i see her like wanting to go to school and that’s great but how far is that going to take her away from the family and that’s what i’m concerned about i want to know and i’m scared is it going to take her away from my sister i closet is it going to take her away from the family is it going to take her away from me and at the time mary brown
Was struggling she was depressed and wanted a change in her life but robin talked her out of going to school so she could help with their business my sister wives closet a business that never really took off and fans are still mad at her for making mary miss that [music] chance a huge drama during the show was when the sister wives had to leave leave their home in utah there’s a potential that our dad could go to jail the sheriff drove by today this is not the america that i learned about when i was in school in sister wives season 2 cody
Brown and his four wives and their 16 children at the time left utah under duress when an investigation began on the family the city of lehigh finished their investigation uh and um they turned over their findings to the district attorney this was a huge drama during the second season lots of fans tuning in to see is cody going to get arrested is he going to get persecuted what’s happening why do they have to leave in a rush oh my [music] gosh but the documents from the 2010 investigation actually depict a completely different story than what was
Shown on the show in fact there’s been quite a bit of deception with the whole sister wives production of season 2 after season 1 debut the brown family went on a press tour including going on the today show where they officially came out as polygamists to the public so what led you down this path what made you choose polygamy oh shoot it was faith-based uh it’s just um part of a faith belief and i followed through with it and um this is kind of where it landed in 2009 polygamy was a third degree felony in utah and after
The season aired the lehi i think it’s pronounced police department began an investigation against the brown family and in sister wives season 2 the family makes a dramatic show of having to evacuate their home and how they’re being run out of utah and persecuted for their religious beliefs not like there’s a whole history of intense trauma in utah associated with polygamy but you know cody said that to keep the family intact they must move out of utah and they moved their family to a place they believed to be more open-minded las
Vegas nevada every day that we’re here our family goes deeper and deeper into the fear of what could happen the people in vegas are going to be a lot more tolerant yeah i mean las vegas is definitely ely more open-minded than utah that is for sure cody’s four wives and their 16 children were packing up and preparing for the move when the media caught wind of it and they were saying that they had 24 hours to move before tmz released the story we’re going to move in 3 days and the show made it seem like investigators would
Try and arrest cody at that time once the story broke they worried that if cody was found guilty then the wives would be separated and cody would go to prison which is what happened to christine’s grandfather and his many wives all this panic and alleged persecution made for good reality tv but it wasn’t true at all the browns were not in danger of being persecuted for polygamy it’s rare for the utah attorney general’s office to prosecute polygamists unless they’re accused of additional crimes and the 2010 lehi
Police report reveal reveals the true details of the investigation the investigator acknowledges that cody is an admitted bigamist but since there was no evidence of other crimes associated with bigamy the state prosecutors declined to prosecute cody the real crime was the fact that the browns were financially benefiting off of promoting a criminal act on the sister wives tlc show though if you ask me the biggest crime of all is even wanting to marry this man the police report court reads it’s most likely that the brown family
Received some sort of financial consideration for their involvement in this project that would suggest that they were paid to promote an activity that is a criminal act in their state however it’s unknown at this point what if any financial compensation was received had the browns stopped the tv show the investigation would have been dropped so to be able to continue their tv show cody moved his family to las vegas on top of that the investigation reported that the sister wives producers were actually fighting to decriminalize
Polygamy which the show was meant to promote in the first place the last page of the police report reveals this shocking information the sister wives producer timothy gibons made contact with cody through a group actively working to decriminalize polygamy called principal voices the police report reads it was found that in 2009 independent producers timothy gibbons and christopher p approached the north carolina based company figure 8 films with the concept of a reality show about the brown family prior to this timothy
Gibbons had been introduced to cody by anna wild with the polygamy advocacy group principal voices the goal of sister wives from the beginning was to advocate for polygamy and with the help of sister wives and cody polygamy was decriminalized in utah in 2020 instead of polygamy being a third degree felony in utah it now can only be punished with at most a $750 fine and community service really advocating for women there i see according to gibbons’s production company website the sister wives producer promised no experts or opposing
Views news would be included in the show that was contrary to their goal of decriminalizing polygamy and tlc didn’t tell viewers that sister wives producers and cody were working in tandem to decriminalize polygamy and push the narrative that plural marriage isn’t harmful and shouldn’t be illegal and instead the show ended up just proving why plural marriages are so harmful and toxic ironically so it seems like behind the scenes and with the production of sister wives there was a lot of shady intentions and general deception and
Even though fans connected with primarily the three sister wives mary janelle and christine there was one person in particular that no one connected with and that’s cody [music] brown cody win brown was born on january 17th 1969 to william win brown and janelle 2 his father was a polygamist and had three wives and cody has nine siblings he was raised in a mormon household and says his parents struggled with the dichotomy of the mormon faith and plural marriage and cody worked as an advertising salesman until the start
Of the show and tlc viewers first met cody when he was living in utah with his three wives at the time during the first season cody was presented as a doing father who wanted his children to grow up feeling safe but sadly in recent years cody has completely lost his ability to juggle multiple households and keep everyone happy we came into this by way of commandment we felt like we were supposed to live it and we had an ideal that it was a better way and and it come to a stark reality of the struggle that it is and the patriarch has been accused
Of creating conflicts so that he can continue living under robin’s roof do you believe that robin is the favorite wife i feel like and my children feel like he has been disproportionate in the amount of time that he spends there i don’t have a head wife in this family for years cody tried to take christmas away and then robin came in the family and she started being like well that’s the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard my whole entire life but she had magical conversations with cody where he would come back and say i think
That we need to still have christmas and things like that and she was totally heard and it blew my mind at first on the show cody was meh i mean let’s be honest was anyone tuning into the show to watch cody constantly flip his hair and look bewildered and it’s just vomiting out of me who you don’t know what i [music] went but later on in the show fans became more and more disillusioned with cody especially in regards to how he acted as a father when the wives went away for a few days christine and cody’s daughter truly became very ill this is
Actually going to be the first time in 8 years that i’ve ever watched all the children tr does not feel well at all and she kept me up all night last night she just kept moving from place to place to place and cody practically ignored her saying she’s just fine she doesn’t really have a fever though i don’t know what’s wrong she wasn’t that hot i know a fever cody and aspen and mel that they’ve both been talking to me and truly is really sick and so i’m excited to get back home to see what’s going on with her you know cody says she just has
Flu leg symptoms but not a fever but aspen mel you’re pretty freaked out by her and her behavior christine comes home from the trip and sees truly is so sick she’s gone crosy i got to the emergency and i went and checked in and she just kept going crossy i don’t know this i don’t know how serious this is and takes her to the emergency room and finds out she has acute kidney failure they called it kidney specialist in because they realized that she had no fluids in her kidneys are shut down our kidneys are completely shut down
Completely shut down they’ve stopped and that was a huge example of how neglectful as a father he was cody also forgot his son’s 21st birthday in december of 2022 i didn’t remind him that it was my birthday because i wanted to see if he remembered and he didn’t and refused to go to one of his daughter’s surgeries for her scoliosis you can’t come the whole time listen i’m not flying there this is the thing you guys i’m not going to new york all right so i think that you should wait for the surgery and all these
Children have expressed how they’ve been let down and disappointed by their dad and it leaves me with the question what is even remotely appealing about cody and he pulled four women four women who married him and gave him children if you watching right now are complaining because you want to be in a relationship but you’re still single you should be inspired by cody because he really does show that anything is possible and that you really can find people who love you no matter who you are a lot of fans also think that cody
Is the epitome of a manchild during sister wiv season 17 cody has had many tantrums and one notable tant cum that cody has had is over the many sacrifices that he believes he made in his marriage to christine cody confronted christine brown about their marriage in season 17 in a family meeting and said he has never loved her and that he performed his marriage duties out of necessity and not love in our marriage i was putting so much effort i was holding her hand i was kissing her well i wasn’t in love i was doing it as my duty as a husband
And and she’s not either i mean she quit loving me years ago that great to hear after like 25 years fans were shocked to hear him speak about intimate details of his and christine’s relationship in front of the other sister wives and even more shocked about the fact that he said he never loved christine on national television where their six children would see it and hear him say that cody brown had has 18 children shared with his four wives however except for his daughter mik kelty he doesn’t have a good relationship with any of the
Children that he shares with christine janelle or mary maybe he is the problem then and he’s disappointed these kids because on the other hand they see him having a great relationship with all of robin’s children and being super involved even with the three children he adopted from robin’s other marriage and during co all of his rules and restrictions are what really let down his children who weren’t even really allowed to see him or have a relationship with him especially when he missed his daughter’s surgery and fan
Saw her asking for him after her surgery all the while he never showed up the last night was brutal was brutal and she kept asking for her daddy and i’m like honey he’s not here and then a few minutes later she’d ask for him again like what and then um the doctor explained to me that when they’re coming out of anesthesia they don’t really register anything so she was going to ask for the same thing over and over and over it was so heartbreaking and of course covid-19 fears are understandable to a certain extent many people have
Debilitating phobias of sickness and germs but fans felt that his co9 protocols were more of an excuse rather than a legitimate fear especially since since him and robin often contradicted their own rules and also of course 18 children is an insane amount of children to have and it’s literally impossible to juggle time and attention between 18 children which is an exact reason why polygamy is unhealthy especially for the children of the family who witness these marital relationships and don’t get any time with their father but to sympathize
With cody brown a little bit he was raised in this exact same environment so maybe this was all he knew and he probably never knew any other way of [music] operating now as of 2022 most of the sister wives have left cody brown first we had christine brown confirming her split from cody brown last year now we have the brown confirming her split from cody on the one-on-one sister wife special we then had mary brown confirming that her and cody are no longer together christine was the first wife to leave cody in
November 2021 after more than 25 years together cody and i have grown apart and i’ve made the difficult decision to leave christine wrote on instagram we will continue to be a strong presence in each other’s lives as we parent our beautiful children and support our wonderful family at this time we ask for your grace and kindness as we navigate through this stage within our family why are you insisting on holding on to me i’m why who this isn’t working cody you said it wasn’t working too in his own statement cody wrote christine’s
Decision to leave comes with a great deal of sadness we enjoyed many years together and i have a large l amount of respect and admiration for her although we are moving forward on different paths we will always remain committed parents christine was completely decided whatever she’d done over the past 10 or two years i don’t know what it was but she was completely decided and where were you in denial a bad marriage is a bad marriage everybody expects you to just go and figure it out and fix the marriage what if a marriage just isn’t
Fixable later christine revealed that the decision to leave was largely imp part to cody’s relationship with her children during a december 2022 appearance on the reality life with kate casey podcast christine explained that her kids were disappointed with cody for years after he failed to spend meaningful time with them and i saw it in their eyes that they didn’t really feel like they had a great connection with him you look back now and and and sort of like the puzzle pieces are kind of fitting together now yeah but it was
Almost like a spartan got lifted and i was like all right then then it’s time to move on of her choice to leave the 26-year marriage christine added you can only sit and wish for so long you actually have to start making the steps necessary to change that dialogue to change the situation while the split initially appeared amicable cody later revealed in an episode that his feelings differed i’m in this sort of weird place where i’m like thinking i don’t want to see christine ever again i don’t want to think about her i don’t want to drive
Past this house ever again and mourn this he’s such a child in the season 16 finale of sister wives which aired in february of 2022 christine contemplated ending her relationship with cody after he suggested they have a romance free relationship you’re blaming me for me being turned off by your being behavior it’s so embarrassing she subsequently kicked him out of her bedroom the intimate part of our marriage is over and to be honest i’m not okay with that i’m not okay with staying in a marriage where there’s no
Intimacy that’s not a real marriage i’m not interested in a half marriage or a partial marriage or whatever we have so i mean things with cody and i have been hard for a long time months ago we had a conversation i mean he just made it very bl l clear that he said it just wasn’t attracted to me anymore and we were not going to have an intimate marriage anymore we didn’t touch we didn’t hold hands we didn’t hug nothing we have for a long time so i just told him not to stay in my room anymore i didn’t want him in my space anymore she drops a bomb
On me she said don’t i don’t want to stay in my room anymore she’s like my room is a special place to me and nothing special happens there for us i’m like okay i know a lot of people have marriages that are like this romance for marriage it felt really good to tell him to not come over i couldn’t with a clear conscience stay married to someone who had favorites and made it known and someone who was breaking my kid’s heart cody also had what i can only assume was a total temper tantrum on an episode of the sister wives where he talks about
How he was disgusted with christine when they first met because of the way she ate nachos and that he was never attracted to her and never loved her and found her disgusting not cheese i will be honest i was not attracted to christine in any kind of physical sense i mean i look back in retrospect and i wonder was that fair but i can’t even look there because we have children together we have a life together we have a relationship and we found our sweet spot so you were not physically attracted to pristine that’s an
Understatement you were gross out by her i won’t say that but the nachos grossed me out enough to make me go okay i’m waiting how does it feel to hear horrible cody is saying he’s disgusted by a woman because of the way she eats naos like maybe you need to go to therapy do some evaluating self exploration on that one then towards the end of 2022 two more sister wives jumped ship cody brown was asked to address his relationship status with janelle brown in a sneak peek for the upcoming sister wives one-on-one special i’m separated from
Janelle and i’m divorced from christine brown and janelle also confirmed janelle has made it pretty clear to me that she’s enjoying her life without me i think every both really sat down we’d look at each other and say really we’ve been separated for several months while janelle and cody have been together for almost three decades their relationship began to crack during 2020 and janelle refused to follow cody’s strict rules telling him to f off during an intense argument about their holiday 2020 plans and i want you to just
Respect that okay you off i’m just like what what sorry i don’t even recognize this family or whatever like i like i don’t know something has really changed for me the dynamic between the the couple declined in the months that followed the browns religion apostolic united brethren or au looks down on men who leave their wives far more harshly than women who leave their husbands so it’s believed that cody was pushing away his wives on purpose so they would leave him instead of him having to leave he’s been making some noise like even last
Year he’s like look plural marriage is standing in the way of my personal progress he said that to us one time and then after he separated from mary brown cody brown and his sister wives are no more at least seemingly for now mary brown confirmed only a little while after janelle confirmed her separation that she has also ended her 32-year marriage to cody brown while the show was continuing for now three out of the four women have left cody leaving him with only one remaining wife robin brown mary brown said cody made the decision
To end their marriage during the tlc interview mary has shown a clip of cody brown in which he says i don’t consider myself married to mary if she wanted to move on and marry another she wouldn’t get an argument from me how was your relationship with mary today mary and i are in an amiable relationship but we’ve been like literally separated for i would say four or five years neither of us see real value in the rel relationship you you don’t want to be intimate with mary right now is that still where things stand yes and mary said the pair never
Discussed their separation mary do you want to be intimate with cody but he doesn’t want to be or are you in the same place as him like what’s going on in your head i think i want more of a relationship with him than we’re having right now imagine thinking you’re married to someone and then they do an interview or make like an instagram post or something and basically say yeah if you want to like move on and marry someone else like that’s fine i’m cool with it like he just made the decision i’ve never heard him say that to me but cody stated of
His relationship with mary i didn’t give up on mary it just turned out that the relationship was essentially unstable i just didn’t feel like it was tenable it’s not a functional relationship we can get along but we can’t be together and there were a lot of people who were critical of cody’s behavior through this entire separation process he was telling christine that she just walked away and gave up and that’s wrong while simultaneously walking away and giving up from mary oh he wants to work on it with christin
But not me he threw multiple temper tantrums lashed out at his ex-wife wies that’s the reason i’m pissed off and that’s the reason i’m pissed off that’s not true and it’s just i did vomiting out of me man just the knife and the kidneys over all these years and the sacrifices that i made to love you wasted and you’re running away that’s not true put the on me hey oh man same old i cannot believe i i cannot believe that i have done all this to save you to save truly to save my children i did not know i did not know that it wouldn’t harm them made
Them feel guilty even degraded their appearance and said he never loved them and as of december of 2022 robin is the only wife remaining though robin has said that cody’s issues with his other marriages have put a strain on their relationship coldi is now questioning me left and right about things that i thought he knew about me like he’s struggling to trust everybody it’s sort of that be careful what you wish for a thing many fans thinking that robin was a big contributing factor in cody’s wives becoming more estranged
From him but now that she’s the only wife she’s kind of going oh crap now i have to deal with all of his sh right now i’m living right through that because cody is having issues with some of his other relationships and it’s making our relationship really really hard when she said she was leaving she took away a really big dream from me it was i always imagined us you know when we were older sitting there with her grandkids and just getting that sisterhood that we saw some of these older women in our church have
Mhm do you feel like christine robbed you of that yes she took it away she took that away i’m exhausted like who cares if you’re not with me you’re against me f off you know i’m just like that way cody said about the split i’m exhausted like who cares if you’re not with me you’re against me f off you know i’m just like that way yeah you seem to be that way and handling it really well and maturely on an episode of the sister wives the splintered family had a very heated family meeting i do think you cody focus
Like you’re like oh my god nobody wanted to be together and to be honest with you i really don’t know if i want to do the work and then this is exactly what i was afraid of with christine leaving it basically feels like i’m being forced to choose between my children and this group i don’t feel like my children are welcome a lot of people have question questioned if the women that are separating from cody will remain on the show but christine brown has continually confirmed that she will remain on sister wives i am definitely not leaving sister
Wives this is in fact the set in my home i’m so excited and now the sister wife’s plot will follow christine in her own state in her own home on her own terms as she navigates her single life i didn’t know life could be simple i didn’t know that my life was complicated i didn’t know my previous life was complicated and now when i look back on it i’m like oh my gosh i get to live life for me i i’m just done putting up with people who i don’t need in my life so i don’t have i don’t allow people into my life who are not going to be kind and they’re
Not going to be good i only allow good people in my life which i think will be an incredibly fascinating avenue for the show to explore after being in what many people see as a polygamist cult how are these women going to adjust to normal life will they date how will they handle dating and living completely independently and now that cody brown is down to one wife it sounds like the patriarch is even rethinking his relationship with robin cody brown is said to be content in his union with robin brown but might be taking some
Time to rethink if marriage is suitable for him and cody has been reportedly grieving the loss of his family but fans feel that he is the only one to blame for all of this a source close to the family spoke with in touch sharing that cody’s life is currently a mess while the father of 18 is happy with robin the insider questioned how long that feeling would last robin is apparently fine with the other wives exiting but also seems to be questioning her relationship with cody it’s hard to be a plural wife when your husband has a wife
Leaving him plural marriage isn’t all beer and skittles you know it’s it’s it’s not for man i mean there’s a different burden that i don’t want to sit here and mansplain to you it’s just obvious that it’s difficult you’re going to share your husband why would you do that all of this drama definitely made for entertaining tv and that’s the reason i’m pissed off [music] and it seems that though cody brown’s life and family is falling apart the brown’s fame success and businesses could actually be boosted heavily from
The divorce and the drama and the entertainment that comes with it all people are fascinated by things that are the most relatable divorces breakups and family drama are very relatable topics on top of that that those who’ve been following the family for years are going to be most engaged during this time that the family is falling apart it’s literally ratings gold for the network and for the family with more publicity and engagement now than they’ve ever [music] had the tlc show sister wives has been wildly successful which leads me to
Wonder how financially successful have the browns been from their reality show and other business ventures that they’ve done from the fame and success they’ve gained from the show according to a pr expert sister wives christine janelle and mary brown can all make considerably more money per year since their split from cody according to david johnson ceo of strategic vision pr group the three ex-wives could bring in 2 million annually each david told the us son that the trio’s extra income could come from brand partnerships sponsorships selling
Products and more the pr expert explain that it’s often a plus to be single when brands partner with celebrities when the audience is health and fitness related apart from airing the browns family drama on the hit tlc show the wives have been bringing in income in other ways with a lot of quote unquote side hustles mary has been selling lulo clothing for years janelle also has her lifestyle brand strive with janelle and both she and christine are heavily involved in plexus marketing for weight [music] loss at the same time that things are
Slowly crumbling for the brown family fans of the tlc show are also getting tired of the constant pushing of multi-level marketing companies on their social media platforms multi-level marketing companies are known to be atory and it’s fairly known that 99% of sellers don’t make money at all which is why mlms are often compared to pyramid schemes only those at the very top are making money and they’re relying on recruiting other people in order to keep their income going and the people at the bottom are just losing money since often
Times they’re told to continue buying and buying and buying up product to once again put more money in the pockets of those at the top so which of the sister wives are involved with mlm companies well plexus is the most popular mlm associated with the sister wives cast and janelle and christine are involved with them they use their personal instagram accounts as well as two they run specifically for pedaling products called secret to self-care and life with health and happiness both have well over 30,000 followers plexus is an mlm that
Sells dietary supplements most famously their meal replacement shakes and drinks that are marketed to help people lose weight what makes plexus especially predatory is that they take advantage of people suffering from health conditions like pcos and looking at janelle her daughter maddie and christine’s plexus accounts seems to show that they push the idea that these products can help you lose weight which is not rooted in science these products are not fda approved and there seems to be no proof they help with weight loss or health
Conditions 2022 she started healing and in 2023 she’s coming for was hers this is a year of alignment and she’s not letting anyone stand in her way [music] mary brown on the other hand is loyal to lul lao both mary and christine have been active with the legging company lul lao and it’s sad because they’re taking advantage of their fans who will end up losing money in the multi-level marketing business model if you didn’t know already lulao rose to infamy with the shocking documentary lula rich which i highly recommend watching and really
Showed the truth and toxicity behind the mlm company while the documentary was eye openening for many mary has decided to stay loyal to the brand she made a post in november praising the company and its owners dean brady and mark stum two weeks ago i was in florida for lulao leadership training i had the privilege of rubbing shoulders with these two amazing humans feeling their spirit and seeing firsthand the love and compassion they have for their family of retailers and it seems that mary has no plans of leaving lulao anytime soon her instagram
Account is still filled with her lulao work i find the sister wives involvement in mlms to be kind of ironic because many people believe the sister wives are in a cult and many believe mlms are a cult so it kind of makes sense that the sister wives would fall into involvement in mlms but of course most of the sister sister wives money comes from starring on the tlc show since 2010 each sister wives net worths are higher than you might think according to celebrity net worth mary is worth an estimated total of
400,000 the profit stems from her starring and sister wives selling items on lulo and running lizzy’s heritage in a bed and breakfast in her family home in utah although it’s not been revealed exactly how much mary made makes as a trainer for lulao glass door reports that a trainer makes over 77,000 a year as for mary’s bed and breakfast which she began in 2017 she’s charging her customers $250 and $300 a night depending on the room in november of 2022 mary hosted a retreat at lizzy’s heritage inn and the prices varied from
4500 to $6,400 which is a lot to be charging people in the last way mary earned ears extra income is through cameo videos for her fans for $150 and selling business related recordings for $420 janelle is reportedly worth $400,000 as of 2022 janelle has reportedly accumulated those funds from starring and sister wives previously running the browns online store and blog named my sister wi’s closet her fitness company strive with janelle and participating in her plexus mlm called life with health and happiness on the
Site she charges her customers who request an appointment $75 for advice and guidance on their fitness journey but there’s no info about exactly how much their plexus mlm project has made since opening the company and before janelle’s online business ventures she was a real estate agent in 2013 to make ends meet while she and her family lived in nevada christine has a reported net worth of 400,000 christine has made this money through being on the show sister wives being a published author a salesperson for plexus and lulo and
Making specialized cameo videos in 2012 christine published a book titled hand raised the barnes of montana as a lulao retailer although christine didn’t disclose how much she profits from her sales it’s reported that the retailer can make 38,000 to 56,000 a year there’s been no details on how much christina’s made in plexus as for cameo christine charges her fans a variety of prices including $40 for a personalized video $120 for a live video call and $245 for a business video celebrity networth says robin is profited
$600,000 since starting in sister wives the other ventures robert has participated in is selling items on the joint website my sister wife’s closet publishing books and running the family blog in regards to books robin has written at least three projects including two children’s novels disney’s muppet babies super fabulous and evans turning seven as for their combined earnings cody and his four wives or former wives can each reportedly earn 25,000 to 40,000 per episode for their roles in tlc’s sister wives the group
Also turned their life story into a new york times best-selling book titled becoming sister wives the story of an unconventional marriage in 2012 so what started as a random reality tv series to advocate for polygamy turned into a multitude of business avenues for the browns but what do their children think about the career and lives their parents have [music] had do your kids plan on living the polygamous lifestyle so far they’re not planning on it cho one of the most fascinating aspects of the sister wife saga are the children that mary
Christine and janelle have had with cody and how those children have turned out and what their perspectives are on their family cody and mary brown’s kid leon brown aged 27 after 5 years of marriage the pair welcomed their first and only child together leon brown in 1995 and though mary was raised in polygamy and was part of a plural marriage herself she tried to create a different culture for leon who came out as transgender and queer in june of 2022 in july of 2022 mary celebrated leon turning 27 with a touching tribute on instagram happiest
Of birthdays to my miracle my always amazing leo the lion she wrote know you are forever loved by me at leo in the mountains and i’m honored and blessed to be your mom i love you it’s important to note the brown children including leon have stated that mary hasn’t always been the most supportive parent and that there’s been many rough patches throughout their childhood especially when leon came out your dad talked about the importance of reciprocating your mom’s feelings what were you thinking in that moment i was just just feeling
Really hurt by her actions um and going through all that just kind of made me feel like she didn’t really care about me i had to come to a place where i realized it wasn’t about me to be able to to kind of move forward leon is engaged to their partner audrey chris who came out as transgender in december 2021 okay um i’m gay are you serious are you really yeah it’s one of those things that you kind of always know but growing up in such a religious place was really hard cuz i was constantly told this is bad um it’s
A sin so it was just kind of like i had this uh genuine fear growing up of being gay cody and janelle brown’s kids logan brown 28 years old obtained a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science and married his now wife michelle petty in october of 2022 according to chich shei he has never been interested in polygamy and is no longer a member of the mormon church madison brown 27 the couple’s second child and first daughter madison who goes by maddie attended utah state university but later dropped out after
Getting engaged to her boyfriend caleb brush who she married in june of 2016 caleb told people the pair weren’t planning on living a plural marriage hunter brown 25 attended the united states air force academy and later moved to baltimore to attend nursing school and obtained his master’s degree from the john’s hopkins school of nursing in of 2022 garrison brown 24 janelle and cody’s fourth child son garrison is a part of the national guard he also stepped back from his family their show and their faith he has even joined a
Church that opposes polygamy during the 2015 tell all special he stated one’s enough for me gabriel brown 21 gabriel who goes by gabe has had his ups and downs with his father over the years in a december 2022 episode of sister wives gabe got emotional during a confessional as he recalled when cody forgot his birthday during a phone call they had in october october rolls around specifically october 11th my birthday um and dad calls me and we have a small discussion about how bad my co was i shouldn’t have done this
But i did anyway um i did didn’t remind him that it was my birthday because i wanted to see if he remembered and he didn’t savannah brown 18 janelle and cody’s six and youngest child savannah is very close with her mom and also regularly spends time with her larger blended family including her half sister truly daughter of cody and christine cody and christine browns kids aspen brown 27 christine and cody welcomed their first daughter aspen on march 14th 1995 and married her husband mitch thompson in june of 2018 the couple said
They have no intention of welcoming sister wives into their family my kelty brown aged 26 in 2016 my kelty married antonio pedron i’m not going to live polygamy m kelty said during a tell all special i don’t think that’s for me i don’t think i could ever live up to what my parents have been able to do peyton brown aged 24 peyton joined the national guard in 2019 in february 20122 he posted a tik tok that appeared to throw shade at cody’s wife robin in the video he wore a shirt that said what does the nanny do seemingly referencing an
Earlier comment from his mom christine who questioned why robin was able to hire a nanny during the pandemic when cody’s protocols prevented the family from seeing each other what does the nanny do so i got this package in the mail and it doesn’t matter the package isn’t super important but it’s kind of just like kind of funny hayden also revealed in december 2021 that he had no interest in practicing polygamy during a q&a on his instagram stories when asked if he would consider the life style he responded no i chose not to a long time
Ago gwendelyn brown 21 ind december 2022 gwendaline announced her engagement to her girlfriend of almost 9 months i’m the daughter of cody and christine brown from sister rves and here i’ll be kind of recapping my experience in each episode and i feel like my experience is kind of unique as an autistic bisexual woman especially from a polygamist family and especially as a subject of a reality television show like her brother peyton gwendaline has been outspoken about her feelings towards cody’s fourth wife robin and a youtube video that
Showed her reacting to the second episode of sister w 17th season gwendelyn said of robin i don’t really like her as a person i do feel less about robin from watching this but i feel like that’s not very fair from me cuz i don’t really like her as a person gwendelyn also posted a photo on instagram with the caption y’all i’m not going to be a sister wife along with two school emojis clarifying that she has no intentions in joining a polygamist family gwendaline also created a patreon account where she’s been spilling all
The tea about her family the 21-year-old revealed that most of her family members realized they were in a cult which is why no one practices polygamy isabelle brown 19 years old is cody and christine’s fifth child in september of 2020 isabelle underwent major surgery to correct her scoliosis which christine later revealed was the final straw that made her leave her marriage after cody declined to join them for the operation wearing the daytime brace is hard um because i look bigger and i can’t do as much and i can’t do as
Much and it’s hard emotionally i don’t think i would consent to surgery unless i thought it was threatening her life concern is is if it’s not under 30 by the time she’s done growing she will need surgery it’s threatening her self-confidence it’s all just rhetoric i think his priorities are little screwed up isabelle told the sister wives cameras through tears of her father’s decision she missed you it was hard you couldn’t be there it was hard for her i know i’m sorry i was okay i was fine surprisingly the doctor was shocked i was there by
Myself there’s no going back but i wish i could have been there and it’s a real regret and so it has me going back in time wishing i’d have done things differently truly brown who’s 12 years old and a minor so i will be blurring her face when truly was just 3 years old she was rushed to the hospital due to acute kidney failure and dehydration and her road to recovery was documented on the tlc show tr couldn’t be come home i think she has at least another 9 days n9 days until she can come home they did dialysis and they cleaned out her her
Blood and everything and made it better so that her kidneys could have a break after christine and cody’s separation the exes disagreed over custody of their daughter truly since truie still a minor with cody telling christine he wanted to split 50/50 what about truy i think tru’s going to be fine she’ll miss everybody of course and it’s going to be hard and taking her from cody no you can’t take her from me because we’ll have to have a shared custody it’ll have to be 50/50 well hell he could have had 50/50 time with us the whole time we
Lived here the children seem like wonderful and well adjusted people in society which is impressive considering most of them feel they grew up in a cult mary christine and janelle undoubtedly did a wonderful job in raising their kids despite the struggles they had in their polygamist marriage the sister wives was a reality show intended to advocate for polygamy and paint it as a harmless practice but instead the 17 seasons of the sister wives thus far ended up just showcasing all the problems of polygamy and exactly
Why it doesn’t work now it’ll be interesting to see how mary janelle christine’s and even robin’s lives change from here and what their perspectives eventually will be of their time in their sister wives marriage now that they will have some time to integrate into society and that’s all for why the sister wives is the most dramatic show on tlc i hope you enjoyed watching and i hope this video was informative on everything that has gone on regarding the sister wives if you made it to the end thank you so much for
Making it to the end comment down below what you were doing while watching or listening to this video i know so many people like doing chores or work or other activities while watching my video and i always like to hear what people were doing and and i hope you’re doing well i’ll see you in the next video bye [music]
