Why Sister Wives’ Meri Brown Says She Doesn’t Want to Be Robyn Brown
Meri Brown is her own woman.
That’s why the Sister Wives star disagrees with ex Kody Brown for wanting her—as well as former sister wives Janelle Brown and Christine Brown—to change when he first introduced his fourth wife Robyn Brown into the family.
“I don’t think that’s fair for him to even say,” Meri shared in E! News’ exclusive look at the TLC series’ May 25 one-on-one special, after host Sukanya Krishnan revealed that Kody said he had “wanted to raise every wife up” to a level of “divine love” he experienced with Robyn.
“We’re all supposed to be Robyn?” she scoffed. “I’m sorry, I am Meri. I’m not going to be Robyn.”
In fact, the 54-year-old argued that it’s “unfair” for Kody to think of the other sister wives this way.
“I’m going to be my own individual person,” she continued. “I don’t want to be her.”
Looking back, Meri—who confirmed her split with Kody in 2022—believes one reason why their decades-long relationship didn’t work out was because he didn’t fully accept her. As she put it, “He didn’t for the past 12 or 14 years—or maybe even more.”
Likewise, Janelle—who announced her breakup with Kody in 2021—did not appreciate Kody’s remarks about his former wives, telling Sukanya during her own one-on-one discussion, “That’s revisionist history.”
The 56-year-old went on to say that she didn’t feel Kody ever made an effort to develop a deeper relationship with his other wives after Robyn joined the family.
“Would’ve been nice if he communicated that back then,” she added. “He never talked about that with me.”
Puddle Monkey Prods/Figure 8/Kobal/ShutterstockAs for Kody? After calling it quits with his third wife Christine in 2022 as well, he is “not interested in plural marriage” at the moment.
“It’s hard not to be bitter about the fact that I bought off on it and did it,” the 56-year-old told Robyn, 46, on an April episode of Sister Wives, “because in the end, in the last moments of it—I felt terrible in the last moments of it.”
He added, “I don’t want to pursue another woman because I don’t want that headache—the questions, the struggles, the wonder about trust.”