Meri Brown opened the closet door to her past during the latest Sister Wives episode, revealing how Kody Brown influenced her style.
“Kody tried to get me to buy overalls like in the ‘90s when we first got married and I’m like, ‘No way,’” Meri, 55, told her best friend Jenn during a girls shopping trip on the Sunday, November 8, episode of Sister Wives.
As Meri held up a pair of white and floral overalls, she admitted, “These are kind of cute.”
The TLC personality proceeded to open up about how her ex-husband, 57, allegedly dictated her clothing choices during their 30-plus year marriage.
Sister Wives‘ Kody Brown and Meri Brown weathered more than one rough patch during their 30-plus year marriage before announcing their split in 2023. The former couple tied the knot in April 1990 before Kody introduced three more wives, Janelle, Christine and Robyn Brown, into their family. Their unique home life drew nationwide attention when […]
“He had a lot of suggestions of how I should dress,” Meri revealed, claiming Kody “didn’t like what I wore on our first meet up. He liked to choose the clothes that I wore.”
Meri confessed, “I didn’t think it was weird at the time. When I think about it now, I think it’s, like, really weird and very controlling.”
Meri claimed that Kody’s fashion choices weren’t just for her, she told the cameras that he oversaw all of his wives’ wardrobes in one way or another.
Janelle, Christine, Kody, Meri and Robyn Brown. Bryant Livingston/TLC/Everett Collection
“He had certain sweatshirts or hoodies or whatever that he liked to have all of this wear so we could all match,” she recalled. “Maybe it was fun, maybe it was weird. I’m not sure.”
Meri legally married Kody in 1990, becoming his first wife. The pair expanded their plural family in 1993 with the spiritual marriage between Kody and Janelle Brown. Christine Brown became Kody’s third wife the following year and fourth wife Robyn Brown spiritually joined the brood in 2010.
In 2014, Meri agreed to divorce Kody so he could marry Robyn, 48, and legally adopt her three children from a prior marriage.
Meri claimed during the November 1 episode of Sister Wives that Kody was “nice to me for, I don’t know, maybe a month” after that sacrifice.
Kody Brown. TLC/YouTube
Christine, 54, noted in the same episode that she saw their legal divorce as the breaking point for Meri and Kody.
“They were struggling before that, for sure, but it was definitely the beginning of the real crumbling between the two of them,” Christine recalled.
Still, Meri and Kody remained in a spiritual union for nearly a decade before she confirmed in January 2023 that they were no longer married. She was his third wife to leave their family in three years.
Christine, who shares six children with Kody, announced her split from the father of 18 in November 2021.
Janelle, who welcomed six kids with Kody during their marriage, followed suit in December 2022. (Janelle, 57, and Kody’s son Garrison died in March 2024 at the age of 25.)
Kody and Robyn, who share two biological children, are now living a monogamous lifestyle. The couple exited the TLC series ahead of season 21.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
