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‘Sister Wives’: Did Robyn & Meri’s Hidden Agendas Create Their Odd Friendship?

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Sister Wives stars Meri Brown and Robyn Brown are the first and last wives of Kody Brown and while once close, it looks like things changed. At first, it appears the women simply struck up a friendship. But it sounds as if there was more to it than that.

This friendship seemed to work as a foundation for bringing Robyn into the family. But it also looked as if both Meri and her new gal pal had other reasons for giving Kody Brown a fourth bride.

Sister Wives: Meri Brown Had an Agenda for Robyn Brown?

Sister Wives fans that first tuned into this TLC reality series, found Robyn Brown was new to the family. She was not yet one of Kody Brown’s brides. But that played out through the first season.

Meri Brown played an important part in bringing this younger woman into the Sister Wives family. From what Janelle Brown, along with Christine Brown, said regarding that time frame, Meri knew about Robyn long before the others.

Sister Wives: Meri Brown - Robyn Brown

Sister Wives viewers followed along as the matriarch became the cheerleader for bringing Kody’s fourth wife into the Brown clan. Christine was pregnant while Kody dated. She gave birth to Truely Brown as Kody got his honeymoon game face on. She was in a bad place. Janelle kept pretty much to herself but neither Janelle nor Christine wanted another wife at that time.

Sister Wives matriarch Meri befriended Robyn and wanted her as a co-wife so it happened. But it doesn’t sound as if Meri made Robyn aware of just how much pain went on when it came to Christine Brown at the time. Years later Robyn broke down and cried over this. As seasons rolled by fans learned that not only Christine suffered with Janelle over Kody’s honeymoon, Meri did too.

Who was Using Who on TLC?

Back during the early Sister Wives days, some fans thought this first wife used Robyn to aggravate the two other Sister Wives, with who she didn’t get along at the time. But that appeared to backfire for Meri.

Meri felt the sting of Kody Brown spending a lot of time with his new wife. So, she too had some issues with the number four wife on board. This is when the friendship between Meri and wife number fours was tested, according to how Meri Brown described this in the past. It seems up until the wedding, things were just fine between the Sister Wives matriarch and the soon-to-be fourth wife of Kody Brown.

Robyn Had Her Reasons?

When first meeting Kody Brown’s family, Robyn found out about the pending TV show. She learned how the Sister Wives show would materialize shortly. This didn’t deter her and instead, it might have been an enticement.

On Sister Wives, she picked up screen time for being a polygamous wife. Finding out that her marriage to Kody would include her joining them on Sister Wives probably wasn’t too hard to take.

Sister Wives: Meri Had a Purpose for Wife #4?

Robyn Brown was invited by Meri Brown to come to the home Kody shared with his three wives in Utah. This was to be her first time and she almost didn’t go. That’s because she lived a few hours away and didn’t have gas money to get there. A caring cousin, who wanted her to become part of Kody’s family, gave her the money so she could go.

So, it sounded as if she was in dire straits when they first met. Robyn was a single mom of three kids. Plus from her interviews over the years, it sounded as if she had an ex-husband that didn’t help. As Soap Dirt previously reported, the relationship of Meri and her co-wife Robyn started like best friends. This fourth wife may have even served a purpose for Meri by bringing her onboard.

The Sister Wives newest addition wasn’t getting along with Janelle Brown and Christine during that time frame. So a new and younger bride may have worked for her to get a few jabs into her other two co-wives. But if that’s so, it backfired because Meri soon felt the emptiness. Without Kody around, like he was before he entered into the number four marriage, all three wives felt slighted.

Sister Wives on TLC helped Robyn Brown got her to wish for fame today it appears she has money to use for gas in her new car when driving back and forth from her new luxury home. But as far as Meri’s friendship with her long-ago buddy, it appears rocky at best. Although Meri Brown is close to Robyn Brown’s kids, it sounds like their Sister Wives friendship runs hot and cold.