Work sister wife, or husband: (noun) a person who is simultaneously a confidante, coworker, and proxy; a trusted friend who acts as a professional stand-in during meetings and presentations; an in-person voice to your virtual opinions; a decision-making delegate upon your behalf.
In a polygamous society, a sister wife is one of multiple women married to the same man. Polygamy, the act or condition of a person marrying another person while still being lawfully married to another spouse, is illegal in the US.
The TLC reality series, which premiered in 2010, follows polygamist Kody Brown and his marriages to four women (Brown is only legally married to one wife, Robyn Brown, but considers himself "spiritually" married to all four). The patriarch of the Brown family has 18 children across his families.
According to Open Corporates, the LLC is active and lists Kody, and his then-four wives, Janelle, Robyn, Meri, and Christine Brown, as “members.” Through this LLC, the Brown family was getting paid by TLC for Sister Wives. It's estimated that the Browns are made anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000 per episode.
Robyn Brown – $600,000
She manages an online clothing and jewelry boutique called My Sister Wife's Closet, which all four women (and even Kody) have a stake in. Along with her business, Robyn also collects a paycheck from starring in her family's reality series.
Robyn, Kody's only legal spouse, has a surprising net worth of $600,000, according to Celebrity Net Worth. That's $200,000 more than Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown.
Sister Wives is an American reality television series broadcast on TLC that premiered on September 26, 2010. The show documents the life of a polygamist family, which includes Kody Brown, his wife Robyn, ex-wives (Meri, Janelle, Christine), and their 18 children.
(“Bigamy” is the act of marrying someone while still legally married to another person, and it is usually the term used in laws against plural marriage. Polygamy is illegal because bigamy is. The words “bigamy” and “polygamy”—and their derivatives—are sometimes used interchangeably.)
Ultimately, the separation between certain members of the family became permanent. Kody divorced his first wife, Meri, in 2014 so he could legally marry Robyn. Janelle, who entered the family in 1993, and Christine, who joined in 1994, both separated from Kody in 2021.
While all of the ladies have side hustles, they definitely make the biggest chunk of their income from starring on Sister Wives. The reality TV brood reportedly earns about 10 percent of the show's per-episode budget, per CheatSheet.
You also call your own siblings' spouses your brother-in-law (the husband of your sibling) or sister-in-law (the wife of your sibling).
According to this book, they are considered "co-wives."
No, the women do not have sex with each other. Instead Kody develops a schedule rotating which wife he will sleep with on what night. He tries to make sure that his time is divided equally to avoid jealousy among the wives.
The family patriarch is only currently in a relationship with one of the four original sister wives, Robyn Brown. Christine Brown was the first sister wife to call it quits, announcing that she and Kody had split in November 2021. She has since relocated to Utah from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Meri Brown
Meri, Kody's first wife, grew up in California in a family of 25 siblings. The pair were introduced by one of Kody's sisters in 1989 and tied the knot in April 1990.
Polygamy in Australia is illegal. Polygamy is legal in many African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries, and usually involves more than one wife. Polygamy is also common in certain religious groups in other countries, such as Mormons in the United States.
In New South Wales, section 92 of the Crimes Act 1900 makes it an offence punishable by a maximum penalty of seven years' imprisonment to marry a person whilst already married to another.
John Gill comments on 1 Corinthians 7 and states that polygamy is unlawful; and that one man is to have but one wife, and to keep to her; and that one woman is to have but one husband, and to keep to him and the wife only has a power over the husband's body, a right to it, and may claim the use of it: this power over ...
Muslim supporters of polygamy often cite Quran verse 4:3, which instructs men to take as many wives as they can take care of, up to four, and they also point out that the Prophet Muhammad had multiple wives.
Polygamy — or more correctly polygyny, the marriage of more than one woman to the same man — was an important part of the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a half-century.
Mormon men can lawfully have one wife. The practice of polygamy (polygyny or plural marriage), the marriage of more than one woman to the same man, was practiced by Church members from the 1830s to the early 1900s.
Meri Brown runs a bed and breakfast, Lizzie's Heritage Inn, in Parowan, Utah. Additionally, Meri and Christine sell LuLaRoe, and Janelle has a business called Strive With Janelle. Janelle and Christine also sell Plexus.
The Brown patriarch has 18 children with four women, most of whom are teenagers and adults. Kody Brown and first wife Meri Brown have one child, Leon. Kody and second wife Janelle Brown have six children.
'Yes, we use birth control,' Jill said, 'but we prefer to use non-hormonal birth control methods, just because we don't want to use anything that could potentially cause an abortion. ' It is a myth that the Pill can cause abortion, since it works to prevent an egg from being fertilized in the first place.