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Sister Wives’ Christine Brown and Kody Brown’s Ups and Downs


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When five become four. Christine Brown‘s announcement that she and her husband, Kody Brown, split for good came as a shock to viewers who have followed the family on Sister Wives since 2010.

The TLC personality announced the news via Instagram in November 2021, shortly before the TLC show’s season 16 premiere. “After more than 25 years together, Kody and I have grown apart and I have made the difficult decision to leave,” she wrote at the time. “We will continue to be a strong presence in each other’s lives as we parent our beautiful children and support our wonderful family.”

The duo, who tied the knot in March 1994, share six children: 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).

During the Sister Wives series premiere in September 2010, Christine, who was raised in a polygamous family, said she decided at age 19 that she wanted to be part of a plural marriage.

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“I honestly wanted sister wives more than a husband for a good time of my life,” she said at the time. “I want the whole family. I didn’t just want Kody. No, I wanted everything.”

As soon as she realized that she wanted to be part of a polygamous family, she also knew that she wanted to be someone’s third wife — not their first or second.

“They actually say if you’re having problems, like, when you have two wives … marry a third because they’ll even it out,” she said during one confessional scene. “I never wanted to be a first at all because I didn’t want to be married to a guy by myself. And then I didn’t want to be a second because I felt like they were a little wedge in the relationship, and I didn’t want to be the wedge. I only ever wanted to be the third because it sounded the easiest.”

Though Christine was happy to be Kody’s third wife, she initially struggled with the addition of the fourth, Robyn Brown, who wed Kody in May 2010. He also began relationships with Meri Brown in April 1990 and Janelle Brown in January 1993. (Both Janelle and Meri confirmed their separation from Kody in December 2022.)

“[Robyn] lives, like, five hours away,” Christine said during season 1 when Kody was still courting his future fourth wife. “There [were] a couple times where I’m like, ‘You really can’t go. You can’t leave me, and you can’t leave your family. You are replacing your family with Robyn and her kids.’ It was hard, and at the same point I realized that it needed to happen, but it didn’t necessarily make it easier.”

Keep scrolling for look back at Christine and Kody’s ups and downs over the years:

Sister Wives Christine Brown Reveals She Had a Rough Relationship With Kody Brown

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Sister Wives’ Christine Brown and Kody Brown’s Ups and Downs Over the Years

When five become four. Christine Brown‘s announcement that she and her husband, Kody Brown, split for good came as a shock to viewers who have followed the family on Sister Wives since 2010. The TLC personality announced the news via Instagram in November 2021, shortly before the TLC show’s season 16 premiere. “After more than 25 years together, Kody and I have grown apart and I have made the difficult decision to leave,” she wrote at the time. “We will continue to be a strong presence in each other’s lives as we parent our beautiful children and support our wonderful family.” The duo, who tied the knot in March 1994, share six children: 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). During the Sister Wives series premiere in September 2010, Christine, who was raised in a polygamous family, said she decided at age 19 that she wanted to be part of a plural marriage. [jwplayer MsAAundI-zhNYySv2] “I honestly wanted sister wives more than a husband for a good time of my life,” she said at the time. “I want the whole family. I didn’t just want Kody. No, I wanted everything.” As soon as she realized that she wanted to be part of a polygamous family, she also knew that she wanted to be someone’s third wife — not their first or second. “They actually say if you’re having problems, like, when you have two wives … marry a third because they’ll even it out,” she said during one confessional scene. “I never wanted to be a first at all because I didn’t want to be married to a guy by myself. And then I didn’t want to be a second because I felt like they were a little wedge in the relationship, and I didn’t want to be the wedge. I only ever wanted to be the third because it sounded the easiest.” Though Christine was happy to be Kody’s third wife, she initially struggled with the addition of the fourth, Robyn Brown, who wed Kody in May 2010. He also began relationships with Meri Brown in April 1990 and Janelle Brown in January 1993. (Both Janelle and Meri confirmed their separation from Kody in December 2022.) “[Robyn] lives, like, five hours away,” Christine said during season 1 when Kody was still courting his future fourth wife. “There [were] a couple times where I’m like, ‘You really can’t go. You can’t leave me, and you can’t leave your family. You are replacing your family with Robyn and her kids.’ It was hard, and at the same point I realized that it needed to happen, but it didn’t necessarily make it easier.” Keep scrolling for look back at Christine and Kody’s ups and downs over the years:

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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March 1994

Christine became Kody’s third wife when she was 21 years old. Two months after the wedding, Janelle gave birth to the family’s first child, Logan.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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March 1995

Christine’s first child, daughter Aspyn, arrived one year after she married Kody. Aspyn married Mitch Thompson in June 2018.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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June 1996

Kody and Christine welcomed their second daughter, Mykelti. In December 2016, Mykelti wed Tony Padron in a ceremony held in Utah.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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August 1998

Christine’s first son, Paedon, became the eighth child in the family (her third).

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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October 2001

Kody and Christine welcomed Gwendlyn, their third daughter and fourth child together.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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June 2003

Ysabel, the couple’s fifth child, arrived nearly two years after Gwendlyn.  

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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April 2010

The duo welcomed their sixth child, daughter Truely. The birth was documented on season 1 of Sister Wives.

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May 2010

Kody married his fourth wife, Robyn, making her the first new wife in the family in 16 years. “I don’t wanna be a boat rocker, and I don’t like my boat rocked,” Christine said of the impending marriage during the Sister Wives series premiere. “I’m a little hesitant to accept another wife. But if it happens, then she just has to be absolutely amazing. Otherwise, it might be a little difficult.”

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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September 2010

Sister Wives premiered on TLC and instantly became a hit. Some viewers worried that the family’s openness might lead to criminal proceedings given that polygamy was (and still is) illegal in Utah, but no charges were ever filed again Kody and his wives. They did sue the state of Utah in 2011 to challenge the state’s ban on plural marriage, but the case was later dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2016.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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March 2021

Kody told Us Weekly in February 2021 that the family dynamic was getting “weird,” but one month later, Christine said she preferred their plural marriage to a monogamous one. “It’s so out there and beyond my understanding to have a guy around every night,” she told Us. “I felt, like, it would cramp my style a lot because I’ve never had that as soon as Kody and I married. I was the third wife. And so, I really liked the independence that I have and I love the freedom that I have. I love that I can just have those evenings where I’m wearing the grossest most comfortable clothes ever and I’m just, you know, curled up on the couch with the girls, eating popcorn and playing games or something. … I feel bad whenever I say things like that — really bad.”

In the same interview, however, she admitted that she sometimes felt like she wasn’t “an equal partner in this whole relationship” with Kody and the other wives. “The thing that I struggled with most is when I feel like I don’t have a say or when I feel like I’m not as important or things like that,” she told Us. “Anytime we’ve had major decisions, I go through a time where I’m like, ‘Does my opinion really even matter here?’ That’s when we struggle the most … is when I feel like I don’t really have a say or I don’t really have an opinion.”

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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April 2021

Christine became a grandma for the first time when Mykelti gave birth to daughter Avalon. (Kody was already a grandpa of two thanks to Janelle’s eldest daughter, Madison.)

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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April 2021

During the season 15 finale, Christine shocked her fellow wives by saying that she wanted to move back to Utah. The family had relocated to Arizona in 2018. “We’ve had a rough relationship for a couple of years,” Christine said of her husband during an earlier episode.

In the finale, she admitted that she wasn’t sure she could continue her relationship with Kody. “Meri, I can’t do marriage with Kody anymore,” she said. “I don’t want to. … It’s not enough.”

During a confessional interview, she explained that she never got comfortable in Arizona. “I agreed to move to Flagstaff, and I followed Kody here, but it’s been a struggle the whole time,” she explained. “I’m tired of feeling like I don’t matter, I’m tired of not having his support when I really need it. I’m just tired. I need a partnership. I need something different than this.”

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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October 2021

Us confirmed that Christine sold her home in Arizona. When she signed the house over to the new owner, she listed her address as being in Utah.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown Ups Downs Over Years

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November 2021

After Christine announced her split from Kody, the Brown family patriarch confirmed the news via Instagram. “Christine’s decision to leave comes with a great deal of sadness,” he wrote. “We enjoyed many years together and I have a large amount of respect and admiration for her. Although we are moving forward on different paths, we will always remain committed parents.”

Sister Wives' Christine Was 'Not Excited' for Kody's New Property Pre-Split

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November 2021

During an episode of the TLC series filmed before their split, Christine appeared to reach her breaking point and turned to Meri for comfort. “You didn’t put 30 years into this — 25, 28, wherever you are — to walk away,” Meri said after Christine told her she “can’t do marriage with Kody anymore.”

In a confessional, Christine admitted, “Marriage is hard, but I never wanted the kind of marriage that I have now. I never wanted to be estranged and have extremely limited physical contact — not even hand holding. It’s sad. My marriage to Kody is sad.”

Sister Wives Christine Daughter Calls Out Kody Screwed Up Priorities

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December 2021

The pair butted heads during a December episode of Sister Wives when Kody chose to stay home as Christine and daughter Ysabel traveled to New Jersey so the teen could undergo scoliosis surgery. “Ysabel’s really hurt that Kody’s not here. She’s really hurt,” Christine said during the December 13 episode. Ysabel later added of her dad, “I think his priorities are a little screwed up. And l don’t want to disrespect him because he is my dad and I understand, I do. I do understand why he’s doing it, it’s just really frustrating and really, really hard.”

Sister Wives Christine Brown Packs Up Kody Brown Belongings

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January 2022

During an emotional Sister Wives episode, Christine packed up Kody’s belongings after he said he wasn’t “interested” in being “intimate” with her anymore.

“What did I do so wrong? I always wanted [a] romantic marriage and it’s been so hard for so long,” she said to the cameras. “I feel like I don’t have a choice but to throw his stuff out because I can’t — it’s too heartbreaking to be around his stuff and it’s too heartbreaking to be around him and watch him with Robyn and Janelle and the kids.”

Sister Wives Christine Brown Chose to Focus on Family on 1st Valentines Day Post Kody Brown Split

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February 2022

“HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!” Christine wrote via Instagram alongside a smiling solo snap on her first V-Day without Kody. “Take a break from this crazy world and focus on family today! #valentines #valentinesday #focus.”

Kody Christine Brown Ups Downs Update

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February 2022

“Kody and I are divorced,” Christine said during part three of the Sister Wives: One on One tell-all special. “We’re completely separate. We’re just gonna be friends, eventually. I just realized I had to make a decision for my heart, and my heart was done being broken. And it felt, well, freeing.”

Kody also confirmed during the tell-all that the two were totally done. “Christine’s moved; she’s left. We are no longer married,” he explained. “I love her, and I don’t know what to do ‘cause I’ve got the grief but I’m still angry. I’ll take the grief right now for a little while just to be out of the anger phase, and then [I’m] just moving on. [I] just [want to] have a good life and find happiness.”

Christine Brown Kody Brown Relationship Timeline Update

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February 2022

Months after she and Kody called it quits, Christine announced that she had landed her own solo cooking spinoff. “A taste of something new!” the reality star wrote at the time. “#SisterWives’ Christine will be bringing you some of her favorite recipes on the new digital series #CookingWithJustChristine, dropping every Sunday [on Instagram] and on TLC.com.”

Christine Brown Kody Brown Relationship Timeline Update

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May 2022

Christine gave fans a glimpse at her live without Kody, sharing an adorable photo from her time babysitting her granddaughter. “Practically begged @mykeltip to let me babysit Avalon!” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “She’s absolutely delightful! #oma #babysitting #blessed.”

Christine Brown Kody Brown Relationship Timeline Update

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August 2022

TLC released the first trailer for season 17 of Sister Wives, teasing the aftershock of Christine and Kody’s breakup. “I feel like, to Kody, Robyn’s more important,” she says in the clip. “I have decided to leave. I’m going to leave Kody. … I agreed to be a sister wife but I agreed to be an equal wife.”

Sister Wives Christine Brown Gifts Her Coyote Pass Property to Kody and Robyn Brown for $10

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August 2022

Christine sold her portion of the Coyote Pass property in Flagstaff, Arizona, back to her ex and his fourth wife, Robyn, for $10, according to property records obtained by Us. The sale was signed off on one month prior.

Christine Brown Jokes She Has High Standards Dating After Kody Split

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August 2022

Christine joked about having “high standards” for who she dates after her split from Kody, teasing in a TikTok video that a Warcraft character named Durotan is the “love of my life.” She added in the caption, “I would [date] again! Of course, but I’m pretty picky!”

Gallery Update: Sister Wives’ Kody Brown and Christine Brown’s Ups and Downs

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September 2022

During a season 17 episode of the TLC series — which was filmed in March 2021 — Christine opened up about how strange it felt to be celebrating her and Kody’s anniversary post-split. “For my anniversary, I’m not going to pretend,” she told the cameras, noting that she didn’t spend the day with Kody as she prepared to move to Utah.

“It’s the first time [that] I’ve actually been able to go, ‘Wow, she’s serious about this,’” Kody said during the episode, after revealing he was surprised that Christine didn’t want to post something about their union on social media. “I think I want to keep testing it though.”

Christine, for her part, told viewers: “I don’t consider myself married to him anymore. I don’t wear our wedding rings anymore most of the time. I just feel like they’re a noose. … It felt so good just to take them off.”

Gallery Update: Sister Wives’ Kody Brown and Christine Brown’s Ups and Downs

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October 2022

After Christine told her fellow sister wives on the show that she was leaving Kody and moving to Utah, the patriarch told the cameras he was still surprised by her choice. “I’ve never understood her need to move. I don’t understand it at all unless there’s some guy she wants to date there,” he said in a confessional from the October 2 episode. “Or she wants to get away from me so my stink isn’t on her so she can date. I think the fact that I was spread so thin … plural marriage just hasn’t worked for her in many, many years.”

Christine, meanwhile, took issue with Kody’s sudden desire to see their youngest daughter, Truely, equally amid her relocation to Utah. “Now he wants 50/50 time with them. Well, hell, he could’ve had 50/50 time with us the whole f—king time we lived here,” she told the cameras. “If he wanted 50/50, he should’ve been around more. He doesn’t get 50/50. He hasn’t been around enough for that.”

Gallery Update: Sister Wives’ Kody Brown and Christine Brown’s Ups and Downs

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October 2022

“Christine and I have been on the fast track from separation to divorce now for a few months. The last time the family got together was when Christine told us she was leaving,” Kody explained during the October 9 episode of the TLC series, which was filmed in summer 2021. “I feel very separated from the family. I’ve struggled through this process.”

The estranged couple later celebrated daughter Ysabel’s graduation from high school with a Brown family gathering. After seeing everyone getting along, Kody again expressed frustration regarding his and Christine’s split.

“We will never be there again. I’m living in a delusional world where I’m wishing Christine didn’t leave. I’m struggling with sort of a state of regret and frustration,” he said in a confessional. “It’s a weird thing to be getting left. It’s made me question getting into plural marriage. Question my faith. The message we had to the world about functional polygamy seems so dysfunctional now.”

Sister Wives’ Christine Brown and Kody Brown’s Ups and Downs Over the Years

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October 2022

In a first look at a Sister Wives episode shared exclusively with Us, Kody spoke candidly about how Christine moving out so quickly made him feel.

“It feels hostile to me. I feel like she’s done this as a backstab because she could’ve started talking to me about our relationship a long time ago. And she didn’t, and she drops this on me … and to me it seems really, really rushed. She’s been ready to get out the door from the time that she told me she wanted to stop staying [here],” he said in a confessional.

Sister Wives Christine Brown Kody Brown

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October 2022

Nearly one year after she announced their split, Christine exclusively told Us that things were still tense between them. “So, I haven’t talked to him in person for a while,” she explained at the time. “All I’ve seen are the episodes, for a while, and what I’ve heard from like Janelle [Brown] who still speaks with him and stuff too. … I think he is just so hurt still and just processing it a lot slower.”

Though she revealed that they do “communicate back and forth” in order to arrange for Kody to see their youngest daughter, she doesn’t “think it’s coparenting quite yet.” The reality star noted that when Truely won Student of the Month at school, “I called him and told him. I sent him a picture … so he called her and congratulated her.”

Christine Brown and Kody Brown’s Ups and Downs: Relationship Timeline

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November 2022

“I did love the idea of a family. Of having sister wives, of raising kids together,” Christine told Kody during a season 17 episode of the TLC series. “It is an important part of a plural family, that each relationship and each marriage is strong too. We always talk about the spokes in a wheel, and when there’s a spoke that’s broken, how do we keep it going?”

She later confessed: “I did so much for the family. It was all about having family functions and family get-togethers and family parties. My house was always open to everybody. I loved the big family activities that we had. The big family is great. But when you feel like you’re a minimal person in Kody’s big picture, and you really don’t even matter in the big picture, it changes the perspective on everything.”

The TV personality told the cameras that she eventually had to stop focusing on the “big picture” of their plural family and choose herself. “I’ve been heartbroken for years,” Christine said. “I was tired of being heartbroken. Just tired. You don’t think I stayed for the big picture as long as I did? Because I wanted it to work?”

Kody, meanwhile, couldn’t get over the feeling of abandonment from Christine. “If I really boil it down, if I bring it to the core of what’s going on, it feels like after all I have done, I’m being rejected anyway,” he said in a confessional. “And it’s just not rejection for me, it’s rejection for some of my kids and my other wives.”

Christine Brown and Kody Brown’s Ups and Downs: Relationship Timeline

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December 2022

Christine revealed how she felt hearing her ex-husband say during a season 17 Sister Wives episode that he “wasn’t attracted” to her on their wedding day. “Actually, that was an empowering moment, as hard as it was,” she said during an episode of the “Reality Life With Kate Casey” podcast. “I kind of look back and I’m like, ‘Ah, I can see where you weren’t here and here and here and here and here and here.’ But you know what, if this has been happening for this long, I’m done. It’s over. I’m not going to keep pretending and I’m not going to keep doing this.”

The mother of six added: “If you really haven’t been attracted to me, and if you really didn’t really want a relationship with me, and you didn’t really want to spend time with me … it was almost like this burden got lifted. And I was like, ‘Alright, then it’s time to move on.’”

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