Christine Brown is amazingly aware of how skewed her relationship with ex Kody Brown was now that she’s in a “supportive” marriage with David Woolley.
“I feel stronger, more independent now than I ever did before since you’re so supportive. There’s no 50/50,” Christine, 53, said within the Sunday, April 20, episode of Sister Wives.
David, who married Christine in October 2023, said you need to “never, ever keep rating in a wedding,” confirming that of their relationship they each give “one hundred pc.”
David, nonetheless, noted that in polygamy, “They do keep rating and it’s sad.” Christine agreed, confessing that’s exactly what she did while married to Kody, 56. (Christine and Kody split in November 2021 after greater than 20 years in a spiritual marriage.)
“I felt like Robyn [Brown] had a greater couch. I felt like she had higher dishes and higher decorations and like so many things,” Christine said during a confessional, referring to Kody’s fourth wife, Robyn, whom he legally wed in 2014.
Christine recalled feeling like, “Why am I left with all these scraps on a regular basis? Scraps of time, scraps of stuff,” when Robyn allegedly got more from Kody.
“When a relationship is united, you don’t are likely to keep scores much since you’ve got a cloak of charity to place over this person that you simply love,” Kody said in his confessional, seemingly defending his actions.
Robyn Brown and Kody Brown. TLC/YouTube
Robyn, 46, also questioned why Christine had an ongoing tally with the opposite wives. “Should you’re sitting there continually using that scoreboard against one another, what are you enemies?” Robyn asked.
Christine continued to detail her side of plural marriage while driving with David to North Carolina where they were helping her sister wife Janelle Brown move. (Janelle, 55, confirmed her separation from Kody in December 2022.)
“There have been so over and over in my marriage with Kody where he was, he liked makeup. It was such as you needed to at all times, at all times look nice. It mattered to him a lot,” Christine claimed. “We’d go camping and Janelle and I can be sitting there busting our butts getting breakfast made, cleansing up the mess and truthfully Robyn can be doing her makeup endlessly.”
Christine alleged that Kody would then “praise how they looked” when she and Janelle were “sweating and slaving” over all of the tasks on the campsite.
Janelle, for her part, didn’t care in regards to the makeup issue, confessing it was “irritating,” but she still selected to “rejoice” on the trip.
Robyn, who’s the one woman still married to Kody, remembered the camping incident in another way. “The one time we went camping, I used to be six months pregnant, and I got sick lots,” she shared. “I spent the night barfing my guts up outside my tent on my hands and knees. After which, you realize, Janelle and Christine were making breakfast, and I used to be just attempting to hurry and prepare for the day.”
Meri Brown, who was Kody’s first wife before their January 2023 split, revealed she was aware that Kody “at all times wanted people around him to look good.”
Meri, nonetheless, said she never felt “pressure” from her ex-husband to “look good” or have her hair and makeup done.
Christine, meanwhile, revealed that Kody’s alleged obsession with makeup made her much more self-conscious. “No wonder I used to be continually wondering and continually insecure because as much as I used to be comparing, he was also comparing on a regular basis,” she claimed.
Christine alleged, “Robyn was up on this pedestal and the remainder of us were just lacking. I felt like I used to be lacking in the connection.”
Kody weighed in on the concept of comparison, telling the cameras that together with his first three wives they might “hunker down and get along enough to survive.” He claimed, “It didn’t ever feel like I used to be not within the doghouse with someone,” hinting that was not the case with Robyn.
“I felt like when the family was together, there was unfair fighting that was happening, obviously,” Robyn said, claiming the group would hit “below the belt” and resort to “name calling” after “jumping to conclusions.”
She concluded, “That could be a big a part of the family falling apart. Was [that] there’s just so little trust with one another.”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.