It’s been an emotional year for the Sister Wives crew: divorce, marriage, legal marriage, pregnancy, and finally, adoption. That’s pretty minimal drama considering we’re talking about a family of about 62 zillion people, right?! But the biggest change: Kody Brown legally wed Robyn – his fourth wife – and on June 17th also legally adopted her three children from a previous relationship. Cause Hair Flips really should be assuming more dependents!
Speaking out on the exciting experience, Robyn and Kody describe it as providing “validation” and security to their family.
Meri Brown, Kody’s first wife and for 20 years his lone legal wife, graciously stepped aside to let Robyn take her place as the one legally yoked to Kody’s luscious locks. It’s like a fairy tale!
CLICK THE CONTINUE READING BUTTON FOR MORE!
Meri insists it was her decision to rid herself of legally divorce Kody – purely for Robyn’s children, you understand. “That was something that I decided to do just for the purpose of the kids,” she explains. “We had to do the restructuring so that we would do the adoption.”
With Kody and Robyn now expecting Kody’s 18th child, the entire family wanted Robyn’s 3 older children to feel equally connected. Meri tells People, “They really wanted to be adopted…. I knew that they wanted to have their legal name Brown.”
The plural family had hesitations, but Robyn feels the open-mindedness gave them faith in the courts. “Usually when a plural family goes into a court room they are tearing apart a family so we were really nervous going in but here we were the whole family and we were uniting our family.”
“It was really cool for us,” shares Robyn. “Very much a validation of our family.”
Meri’s decision hasn’t been without tumult; her twitter feed has been awash in mystifying statements that allude to personal drama or conflict.
However, the family remains together – i.e. just because Meri joins the ranks of Kody’s un-legal wives, she’s still spiritually his spouse. Lucky girl!
Third wife Christine praises Meri’s “sweet and generous” gesture. “As far as polygamous relationships go, I don’t know of any other family that has done this, where another wife has given up a legal marriage so he can marry another wife and that way they can adopt the kids.”
There are rumors abound that Meri plans to leave Kody and the family. We’ll see!
TELL US – ARE YOU SURPRISED KODY WAS LEGALLY ABLE TO ADOPT ROBYN’S CHILDREN?
[Photo Credit: TLC]
