As Sister Wives approaches its 19th season on TLC, the Brown family is so far removed its origins that the show is a shell of its original premise. Fans have since realized the original idea for Sister Wives was a lie fabricated by the Browns and TLC to sell the show Was ‘Sister Wives’ all just a lie? The Brown family hard sold polygamy for years. The clan’s reported objective was to show that polygamists are just like everyone else.
And that spiritual marriages should be normalized within society. However, fans began to smell a rat after a few seasons on TLC. The show started to veer off course, away from the family and into scripted, drama-filled moments.
Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn Brown became bolder in their confessionals. The family’s biggest lie came in Season 18 when Christine Brown let it slip that Kody and Meri’s happy marriage was anything but how it was portrayed early on in the series. When Kody and Meri married in 1990, they exchanged rings.
However, Meri says that when Kody started dating Robyn, he told her he no longer wanted to wear his wedding ring. “He didn’t think that it was fair that I had a claim on him,” Meri explained, so he melted it down and kept the diamonds. “That was a symbol! That signified our marriage and commitment, and he melted it down!” Meri slammed.
“Who’s to say that he didn’t just melt down our entire relationship in that moment?” She added that it occurred “six or seven years” before the ca.
