Two of the stars from TLC’s Sister Wives are revealing the status of their relationship with their other former sister wives.
Throughout the latest season of Sister Wives, fans have seen the Brown family continue to fracture as Christine Brown, Janelle Brown and Meri Brown left the home they once shared with husband Kody Brown and his wife, Robyn Brown.
Now, the women are no longer involved in a polygamous relationship and have instead moved on with their own separate lives. The only sister wife to remain married to Kody is Robyn.
During a recent episode of “Rogue Energy,” an iHeart podcast, Christine and Janelle, who have remained friends and still consider each other “family” despite leaving Kody, opened up about their relationship with Meri and Robyn.
“I haven’t talked to Meri or Robyn for years, and it’s funny,” Christine revealed. “We’ll just keep it like that. I don’t need to develop a relationship with them.”
After getting married to her husband, David Woolley, in October 2023, Christine said that while Janelle attended the celebration, Meri and Robyn did not.
“A great thing about being older when you get married is that you really only have to invite the people that you really want there,” Christine continued.
“There’s no obligatory invitations that go out to some uncle Bob or uncle Jed but you’re like, ‘I really don’t want him there. He’s gonna blah, blah, blah. He always does this blah, blah, blah.’ We didn’t have to,” Christine said on the podcast. “We really only invited our closest friends to our wedding.”
“And you were one of our closest friends,” she told Janelle. “I’m not friends with Kody or Meri or Robyn, and so I didn’t have to. I only had to invite who I wanted.”
As for Janelle, she said she’s “had some interactions with Meri” and Kody because of a property owned between the three of them.
“I think she’s been really happy,” Janelle said of Meri. “She’s been living her own life. Do you know what I mean? So we’ve been working cohesively to sort of get this property situation settled, which has been nice.”
“I’ve not had any interaction with Robyn,” Janelle continued. “I haven’t sought her out. I don’t really overlap her in any part of my life.”
Janelle added that she’s excited to be in control of herself as she moves on, and Christine says she finally found the teammate she’s been craving in her new husband.
But as the Brown families go their separate ways, Kody’s relationship with the children he shares with Janelle, Meri, and Christine have suffered.
During the latest episode of Sister Wives, Kody said he refuses to “cut off” wife Robyn in order to have a relationship with his other children.
“My children will always be my children and the door will always be open to them,” he admitted, adding that the caveat is his kids have to make the first move toward rebuilding their relationship. “They’ve got to come through that door.”
“I’m going to be holding a hand out for that, but I’m going to be holding this hand that’s next to me, and I won’t let go of that hand,” he said, referring to Robyn. “I will not cut off Robyn to have a relationship with my children.”
As for Christine and Janelle’s kids, they agreed on the podcast that they know they have “two moms” in them as they called their families a “success” given how closely they raised them while in a plural marriage.
