Why Sister Wives Fans Are Convinced Janelle Brown Is Leaving After 20 Seasons
Is Janelle Brown’s time on Sister Wives about to be divided? A series of Instagram posts have fans thinking Kody Brown’s second bride is preparing to leave the TLC series after 20 seasons.
Kody has a theory about why his bonds with the majority of his adult kids (save for Robyn’s eldest Dayton, Aurora and Breanna) are kinda garbage.
“I think most of the relationships between me and my adult children are strained,” he acknowledged on the Oct. 5 episode. “It’s an issue of trash talk and innuendo, and it has challenged loyalties and trust on all sides.”
And these days, not many of his grown kids are on Team Kody.
Though Mykelti Padron—one of his six children with Christine—had been the most outwardly supportive of her father, months after she and husband Tony Padron made the move to North Carolina with their three children, she gave her take on the rift.
“I think that if he took more accountability in any of his actions, his kids—maybe not all of them, but at least some of them—would reach out,” she noted during an October 2024 fan Q&A shared on the Instagram account @withoutacrystalball. “Instead of blaming the children, or blaming how they feel about his relationship with his other wife or blaming the parents or blaming gossip or whatever, if he just said, ‘Look, I understand I did blank wrong. I’m sorry. Can we talk about it?’ I feel like that would go such a long way.”
While Janelle stopped short of suggesting Kody went through a mid-life crisis, she shared on the Nov. 23 episode that something shifted once he hit his milestone birthday.
Happily ensconced with fourth wife Robyn at that point, “Kody turned 50 and all of a sudden he started making all this noise about he was carrying the whole family and I think he had this wife who just was his soulmate or whatever,” Janelle detailed, explaining that he felt maintaining four unions was “too exhausting.”
But Kody took issue with the idea that he didn’t put in the work.
“I never shirked my responsibilities ever in this family,” he insisted in his own confessional. “I was always there and I gave 110 percent every time. I felt like I wasn’t getting that from the rest of my family.”
And, with three soon-to-be ex wives pushing him to change, “I guess we all went through menopause together,” he added, “because there is such thing as male menopause and my testosterone probably just fell to the floor and I just didn’t want to do the hard work anymore.”