When 5 turn into 4. Christine Brown‘s announcement that she and her husband, Kody Brown, cut up for good got here as a shock to viewers who’ve adopted the household on Sister Wives since 2010.
The TLC character introduced the information through Instagram in November 2021, shortly earlier than the TLC present’s season 16 premiere. “After greater than 25 years collectively, Kody and I’ve grown aside and I’ve made the tough resolution to go away,” she wrote on the time. “We are going to proceed to be a robust presence in one another’s lives as we father or mother our stunning kids and assist our great household.”
The duo, who tied the knot in March 1994, share six kids: daughters Aspyn (born March 1995), Mykelti (born June 1996), Gwendlyn (born October 2001), Ysabel (born June 2003) and Truely (born April 2010) and son Paedon (born August 1998).
Through the Sister Wives sequence premiere in September 2010, Christine, who was raised in a polygamous household, stated she determined at age 19 that she wished to be a part of a plural marriage.
“I truthfully wished sister wives greater than a husband for time of my life,” she stated on the time. “I need the entire household. I didn’t simply need Kody. No, I wished every little thing.”
As quickly as she realized that she wished to be a part of a polygamous household, she additionally knew that she wished to be somebody’s third spouse — not their first or second.
“They really say when you’re having issues, like, when you’ve two wives … marry a 3rd as a result of they’ll even it out,” she stated throughout one confessional scene. “I by no means wished to be a primary in any respect as a result of I didn’t wish to be married to a man on my own. After which I didn’t wish to be a second as a result of I felt like they had been just a little wedge within the relationship, and I didn’t wish to be the wedge. I solely ever wished to be the third as a result of it sounded the best.”
Although Christine was pleased to be Kody’s third spouse, she initially struggled with the addition of the fourth, Robyn Brown, who wed Kody in Could 2010. He has additionally been married to Meri Brown since April 1990 and to Janelle Brown since January 1993.
“[Robyn] lives, like, 5 hours away,” Christine stated throughout season 1 when Kody was nonetheless courting his future fourth spouse. “There [were] a pair occasions the place I’m like, ‘You actually can’t go. You’ll be able to’t go away me, and you may’t go away your loved ones. You might be changing your loved ones with Robyn and her children.’ It was exhausting, and on the identical level I noticed that it wanted to occur, nevertheless it didn’t essentially make it simpler.”
Maintain scrolling for look again at Christine and Kody’s ups and downs over time:
