Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage
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Authors: Kody Brown,Meri Brown,Janelle Brown,Christine Brown,Robyn Brown
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Personal Memoirs, #General, #Family & Relationships, #Alternative Family, #Non-Fiction, #Biography
“My life is my family. I enjoy nothing more than being surrounded by my wives and my children. I draw strength from them on a daily basis. I love the energy and unity that we exude as a group. We are wholesome and upright. We are devout and chaste. We are five consenting adults and seventeen happy children, all free to make our own choices in this world.”
—Kody Brown
I
n many ways, the Browns are like any other middle-American family. They eat, play, and pray together, squabble and hug, striving to raise happy, well-adjusted children while keeping their relationship loving and strong. The difference is, there are five adults in the openly polygamous Brown marriage—Kody and his four wives—who among them have seventeen children.
Since TLC first launched its popular reality program
Sister Wives
,
the Browns have become one of the most famous families in the country. Now Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn reveal in their own words exactly how their special relationship works—the love and faith that drew them together, the plusses and pitfalls of having sister wives, and the practical and emotional complications of a lifestyle viewed by many with distrust, prejudice, even fear. With the candor and frankness that have drawn millions to their show, they talk about what makes their fascinating family work, addressing the topics that intrigue outsiders: How do the four relationships differ? What effect does a polygamous upbringing have on their children? What are the challenges—emotional, social, or financial—involved in living this lifestyle? Is it possible for all four sister wives to feel special when sharing a husband—and what happens when jealousy arises? How has being on camera changed their lives? And what’s it like to add a new wife to the family—or to
be
that new wife?
Filled with humor, warmth, surprising insights, and remarkable honesty, this is a singular story of plural marriage and all the struggles and joys that go with it. At heart, it’s a love story—unconventional but immediately recognizable in the daily moments of trust, acceptance, forgiveness, passion, and commitment that go into making one big, happy, extraordinary family.
The Brown family
—husband Kody; wives Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn; and their seventeen children—are open polygamists and the stars of the popular TLC reality program
Sister Wives.
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Photo Credits
Cover photo by Allison Easley
Group photo on first page of insert courtesy of Liz Bowles Photography
Wedding photo of Robyn and Kody on third page of insert courtesy of Bryant Livingston Photography
All other insert photos courtesy of Kody Brown Family Entertainment, LLC
Designed by Davina Mock-Maniscalco
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file.
ISBN 9780-1-4516-6121-7
ISBN 978-1-4516-6122-4 (ebook)
To all those who lived and loved before us, in secrecy, unable to acknowledge their love, marriages, and life publically, we dedicate our story to you.
