Finally, Janelle and Kody Brown of Sister Wives confirm the rumors we’ve long suspected – what a disappointment for fans!
Sister Wives’ Janelle Brown detailed how her mom Sheryl Usher ended up marrying now-ex Kody Brown’s dad Winn Brown before their 1993 wedding, technically making them step-siblings.
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Janelle Brown‘s familial ties to ex Kody Brown are more like an intricate web.
Not only were the Sister Wives stars spiritually married for nearly 30 years before their 2022 breakup, but Janelle’s mom Sheryl Usher had actually tied the knot with Kody’s dad Winn Brown in October 1992—just three months before their own nuptials in January 1993.
Janelle said the complicated story began when she first met Kody and became “intrigued” by the idea of plural marriages after meeting his family, who practiced polygamy.
“My mom came to save me from the polygamists because no daughter of hers was going to marry some into some crazy cult,” Janelle, whose father Robert Schriever died when she was young, explained on the Nov. 30 episode of their TLC series. “And she ended up marrying Kody’s dad.”
And it made for some awkward conversations with Janelle’s other relatives.
“It was a little weird at first, but I’m like, ‘OK, it’s great. Somebody’s here with me,'” she continued. “Because a lot of my family did not understand my choices. They were hesitant to still remain in contact with me just because they thought I’d gone off the deep end.”
Winn remained spiritually married to Sheryl—as well as two other women, including Kody’s mom Genielle Brown—until his death in 2013 at age 78. Sheryl passed away seven years later in 2020 at age 76.
In Sheryl’s online obituary, Janelle was listed as one of her surviving daughters. Meanwhile, Kody was mentioned as both Janelle’s spouse and one of Sheryl’s “step-children.”
Puddle Monkey Prods/Figure 8/Kobal/ShutterstockAs for how Kody feels about his complex connections to Janelle?
“There’s a strange relationship that we have in this,” Kody—who is now only married to wife Robyn Brown after his splits with Janelle and her sister wives Christine Brown and Meri Brown—in a 2022 episode of Sister Wives. “It’s weird that Sheryl is both my dad’s wife, my mom’s sister wife and my mother-in-law.”
New episodes of Sister Wives air every Sunday on TLC.
