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 SisterWives since 2010.
The duo, who tied the knot in March 1994, share six children: daughters Aspyn , Mykelti , Gwendlyn , Ysabel and Truely and son Paedon .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.
“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.”, 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,