{"id":120027,"date":"2025-11-07T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120027\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:25:07","slug":"sister-wives-star-kody-brown-reveals-the-downside-to-polygamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120027\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sister Wives&#8217; star Kody Brown reveals the downside to polygamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kody Brown has been one of the faces of polygamy thanks to his show, \u201cSister Wives,\u201d but he\u2019s revealing it isn\u2019t an easy lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip from tonight\u2019s episode of \u201cSpecial Forces\u201d on Fox, fellow recruit Andrew East asked Kody about the pros and cons of polygamy.<\/p>\n<p>Kody gets candid, replying, \u201cI had 18 kids with four wives. It has been three divorces and I would never do that again \u2014 I would never marry again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old was married to Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown when \u201cSister Wives\u201d began in 2010, and he added fourth wife Robyn in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>However, the marriages didn\u2019t last. Christine and Kody split in 2021, followed by Janelle in 2022, and Meri in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>During his one-on-one interview, Kody revealed the impact of the divorces on his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere ended up being some bad blood with family over the divorces and in some cases with my children, communication has ceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later added, \u201cWhen you don\u2019t have a deep connection with your children, that is a disappointment. But there are probably certain things I won\u2019t own. I will own where I should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kody was also asked about his decision to pursue polygamy, describing himself as a believer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in an entire culture that had it as a side note to their belief system. My dad had three wives,\u201d he told his fellow recruits.<\/p>\n<p>Kody isn\u2019t the only person from his plural marriage who isn\u2019t interested in doing polygamy again.<\/p>\n<p>During the season finale episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/entertainment\/sister-wives-one-on-one-answers-if-any-of-the-brown-family-would-do-polygamy-again-kody-brown-meri-robyn-janelle-christine#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/entertainment\/sister-wives-one-on-one-answers-if-any-of-the-brown-family-would-do-polygamy-again-kody-brown-meri-robyn-janelle-christine#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cSister Wives: One on One,\u201d<\/a> Meri, Janelle, and Christine all seemed iffy at best about the idea. Meri said she still believes in it, but it only works if everyone is committed, while Janelle said she\u2019s open to the idea, but doesn\u2019t see it happening in the near future. Christine didn\u2019t end up answering directly, but had said in past interviews she\u2019s no longer following the lifestyle with her new husband, David.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn, Kody\u2019s current and only wife said she would consider it with certain guarantees, but is scared of it at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>During that episode, Kody gave an emphatic \u201chell no\u201d to the idea, saying his polygamy \u201calready failed\u201d and that it can\u2019t work if you fall in love the way he did with Robyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kody Brown has been one of the faces of polygamy thanks to his show, \u201cSister Wives,\u201d but he\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10946,146,501,85,46,76462,3192,76463,6653,3076,76464,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-120027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-divorce","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-kody-brown","14":"tag-marriage","15":"tag-polygamy","16":"tag-reality-tv","17":"tag-relationships","18":"tag-sister-wives","19":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}