Kody Brown is unlike any other man you know. He is a reality TV star who rose to fame for his TLC reality show, Wives Sisters. An unconventional family man, Brown has four wives and nearly 20 children (biological and otherwise), upon whom his show is built. More recently, the internet has been filled with speculation that he may have married a fifth wife. Here’s everything we know and all about him.

Kody Brown Biography

On June 16, 1969, Koby Brown was born in Lovell, Wyoming (USA) into the polygamous family of William Winn Brown and his three wives, including Genielle Brown, Kody’s mother.

He was raised alongside 9 siblings. However, nothing is known about his childhood and upbringing.

Before starting his show in 2010, Kody first worked as an advertising salesman. With his reality TV show, Kody and his family want to bring another narrative to the story of polygamy, which they believe the media has painted in the wrong color.

After its premiere in 2010, the show entered its 12th season and it came to be well accepted by American viewers.

Family, spouse and children

As pointed out, Kody Brown is an unconventional family man who has taken the opportunity to create a very successful reality TV show. The American television personality is married to four women who have all come together to give him 18 children.

Although the law allows him to take only one legal wife, as a practicing Mormon, his religion allows him to take as many wives as he can support.

The first woman he married was MeriBerbère in 1989 when she was just 19 and Kody was 22. Meri’s sister introduced them for the first time and soon after they started dating. They got engaged a few months later, then they got married.

Meri Brown, who was also born and raised in a polygamous household, has only one daughter with her husband, Mariah Lian; she was born in 1995.

Brown married his second wife, JanelleBrown in 1993, just a few years after he married Meri. Janelle has six children, Logan Taylor, Madison Rose, Hunter Elias, Robert “Garrison”, Gabriel and Savanah.

The third wife in the family is Christine RuthBrown who married Kody Brown a year after Janelle Brown (in 1994). Also raised in a polygamous family, she has 6 children with Kody – Aspyn Kristine, Mykelti Ann, Paedon Rex, Gwendlyn, Ysabel Paige and Truely Grace.

In 2010 he got married to his fourth wife, RobynBrown was born to Robyn Alice Sullivan in 1978. Before they met and got married, Robyn was first married to David Preston Jessop from 1999 to 2007, date in which their union ended in divorce. From the union, Robyn had three children who were all adopted by Kody. The adopted children are David Dayton, Aurora Alice and Breanna Rose. They have two children together, Solomon Kody and Ariella Mae.

Because he can only have one legally recognized wife, Kody divorced his first wife Meri Berber in 2014, then he married Robyn. The marriage was not because he fell out with his first wife, but it was said to have been so, in order to allow the children of his last wife to benefit from his insurance. That said, all the other women, including Meri, are still spiritually married to him.

More recently, there was speculation that Kody has added a fifth wife to his family, Leah Marie Brown. However, it has been confirmed that he has not added a new wife and as of now nothing is planned.

What is he doing in life?

As noted, Kody is a reality TV star. Showbiz has become his primary job since The Women Sisters started in 2010. Previously, he worked as a publicity agent. However, since the start of his popular show, it is unknown if he has held any other job.

As far as the show hasn’t made him the richest man, he does pretty well at it, with an estimated net worth of $800,000. He is said to earn between $25,000 and $40,000 per episode of the series. It is also thanks to this that each of his wives is said to have a net worth of between $300,000 and $400,000.