Sister Wives season 19 recently premiered, and it was revealed that Kody Brown felt driven to polygamy in large part by his unhappy marriage to Meri Brown. Meri was the first of the polygamist patriarch’s four wives. The two were married in 1990, and they have one child together, Leon Brown. 55-year-old Kody and 53-year-old Meri were married for 32 long years before she finally called it quits. She wasn’t the first of Kody’s wives to walk away from their union. She followed Christine Brown, who left Kody in 2021, and Janelle Brown, who left in 2022.

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