Two of Kody Brown's Wives Were Related Before They Became Sister Wives

Are the ‘Sister Wives’ related? Learn about Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown, and see which two of the TLC stars used to be sisters-in-law.

The titular wives of TLC’s Sister Wives aren’t related to one another through blood — but two of them was related through marriage even before they were both married to Kody Brown!

According to RadarOnline, Janelle Brown, Kody’s 2d wife, was up to now married to a man named Adam Barber, whose sister occurs to be Meri Brown, Kody’s first wife. Yep, that implies Janelle and Meri were sisters-in-law before they became sister wives. Meri and Adam’s sister Elaine even showed the relationship to RadarOnline.

Janelle and Adam finalized their divorce in 1990 after nearly two years of marriage, and she or he then moved on with Kody.

Janelle met Kody while she was still Meri’s sister-in-law.

In an archived version of Janelle’s TLC bio, Janelle shared reminiscences of assembly her long term husband more than 30 years ago. “I met Kody within the fall of 1989, despite the fact that he would possibly not bring it to mind,” she wrote. “Meri had introduced him to a gathering to introduce him to her pals. When he walked into the room I looked at him and had that feeling of remembering something I had forgotten. It was once a novel experience.” 

Janelle also printed that she had known Meri’s family for a number of years by that point — even though she didn’t point out her marriage to Meri’s brother within the bio — and stated that she used to be present for Meri and Kody’s wedding reception. 

“So it was once natural for me to be at their house now and again,” she added. “Over the next few years I might see them now and again. Eventually, Kody and I became as excellent of buddies as Meri and I were.”

Janelle told fanatics that Meri and Kody invited her to their position in Montana in 1992, and that consult with bolstered their bond. “While I used to be visiting with them, one thing sparked the primary of several conversations with Kody,” Janelle wrote. “Things progressed, and we were married the following year.”

The Browns have other unexpected family connections.

The familial links don’t stop there. According to In Touch, Kody and Janelle’s daughter Maddie is married to Caleb Brush — and Caleb is siblings with Erica Brush Brown, Maddie’s aunt and Kody’s sister-in-law. 

And RadarOnline, citing Ancestry.com intel, reported that Kody and his third spouse, Christine Brown, are distant cousins: Christine’s great-great-grandfather and Kody’s great-grandfather were brothers.

In any case, Kody currently has 4 wives, having married Robyn Brown in 2010, and he has 18 organic and followed children. Most of those kids are adults now, and one of them, the aforementioned Maddie, is a mother herself!

For the record, Kody and Janelle are the fogeys of sons Logan, Hunter, Garrison, and Gabriel, and daughters Madison and Savannah. He and Christine welcomed daughters Aspyn, Mykelti, Gwendyln, Ysabel, and Truely, and son Paedon. Kody had one child with Meri: their daughter Mariah. And welcomed son Solomon and daughter Ariella with Robyn and adopted Robyn’s other 3 children, son Dayton and daughters Aurora and Breanna.

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