Sister Wives Go On Attack & Meri Cries Over Janelle's Cruelty

Wow! The gloves really came off in last night’s (June 24th) episode of ‘Sister Wives,’ just proving that one polygamist man cannot keep four women happy. It’s hard enough to keep one wife satisfied in a marriage, isn’t that true Hollywoodlifers?

Poor Meri Brown. She may be Kody Brown‘s first wife but she’s now revealed in vivid detail how she feels like wife # nothing because her fertility problems have rendered her unable to produce more than one child: her daughter Mariah.

Imagine how she felt as Kody took on wives number 2 and 3, who each rapidly produced six children a piece, all while she suffered from miscarriages and dashed hopes.

Furthermore, not only has she felt like a loser of a lesser wife because she has produced only one of polygamist Kody’s 17 children, but she has felt unworthy of having her own house that is similar in size and quality to the other wives’ houses.

Now, as the family is bravely taking on the financial commitment to buy and build four new homes on four Las Vegas lots on a quiet cul-de-sac so they can strengthen their “family culture” as Kody puts it, Meri has a traumatic time agreeing to support the decision that she will get her very own large house.

“The judgement I feel like I’ll get from many people including family members with that size of home, with only one child who will be leaving for college in a year…” she explains, reduced to tears. “It’s obvious I don’t need a home as big as everybody else’s,” she says.” I’ve had many conversations in the past that I don’t need this and shouldn’t be choosing that.”

In other words, Meri is saying that Kody’s other wives believe that she deserves less because she has produced less in the pitter-patter of little feet department.

And you can easily imagine how cutting this is for Meri who has been desperate to have another child or six. “If I’d had my say, I would have needed a seven bedroom home because I would have had eight kids myself, that’s what I wanted. But it’s not the cards I’ve been dealt. But there’s many times in my life I’ve felt punished because of that,” she sobbed.

Any woman who has suffered through the horrors of infertility knows what torture this must have been for Meri and continues to be. You’re not just tormented, but you’re living in a multi-marriage with three other hugely fertile women and then two of them diss you , implying that you are unequal.

Janelle actually admits to the world, on the show, that she really didn’t think Meri should have as nice a house as she ended up with in Las Vegas.

“I felt like you were taking family resources that our family could use,” she tells Meri. “I remember being so concerned about your need to have this home with a pool and I was really looking at how I can feed my family.”

Then there’s cruel Christine. First, she also confessed to Meri’s face: “I’m sorry for thinking you should have a small house… I thought that.”

But that wasn’t all from fertile Christine. She actually confessed in the Sister Wives Tell-All Special after the regular episode, that she told sad and barren Meri that she hoped she DIDN’T get pregnant while she, Christine was pregnant. Meri’s desperately awaited pregnancy would make her own pregnancy “less special for me,” she explained. “I was very mean,” she added.

Christine is absolutely right – she was a MEAN girl sister wife and so was Janelle. And Janelle’s latest nastiness to Meri happened not that long ago — when the family moved to Las Vegas, a year ago.

But then, Janelle’s digs at Meri are really payback we learned after Meri was apparently super mean to Janelle for the first few years of her marriage to Kody. Can you follow this?

I guess Meri found the adjustment to sharing her husband with wife #2, not as easy as she has earlier made out. Are we surprised?

Strangely after the wives started revealing more about the behind closed drama and backstabbing in their plural marriage, they all confessed that they wouldn’t change anything in the world about it. Not even Meri who was a sobbing puddle of tears earlier.

Uh, ok? What, are they all masochists or what? What do you think monogamous Hollywoodlifers? Tell me now!

Bonnie Fuller

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Let us remember that the “Browns” CHOSE this lifestyle. They CHOSE to be on “Reality TV”. Life isnt fair they are Human with flaws, desires, tempers, attitudes, and no matter what religious preference one chooses at the end of the day…we must deal with our own CHOICES…be they good or bad is not for anyone else to decide.
“There but for the grace of GOD go i”.
However i judge someone else, is how i myself will be judged should i find myself in a simular circumstance.

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Hi there i am kavin, its my first time to commenting anywhere, when i
read this piece of writing i thought i could also make comment due
to this sensible article.

I’m pretty sure the bulk of the money they live on now is the money they are paid, which is considerable, for doing this TV series. Question is: what in the world are they going to do to pay for 4 houses when this series ends?? Yes, the women should work – but Kody absolutely needs to get a job!

If Meri didn’t get the square footage as the others maybe she would not be aloud to build in the same subdivision. And why does the women need to work what in the world does Kody do to support his families?

Both Meri and Janelle had jobs, but Janelle left, bought her own home and lived away from Kody & family for a couple of years leaving Meri as the sole breadwinner with Kidy filling the “family” coffers and helping hin support the family “in” home as well as sending $$ to Janelle when she left….Janelle’s book is very revealing…she was married to Meri’s brother AND is Kody’s stepsister (her mom is one of his dad’s sisterwives)….the relationship was based on stability not romance or love…she says it in her book; just STRANGE

I’m almost sure that when they were in Utah, Janelle also had a job.

When they lived in Utah before TLC Meri was the only one with a job, the one adding to the family coffers , nobody else, she EARNED her right to her portion of the budget

Actually it was Janelle with the job. Janelle has always worked. Meri was fired after the going public.

I agree Meri needed a smaller house. Why take away from Janelle and Christines children because Meri wants something nicer. They should have a certain household budget and then so much added per child as each child costs more to raise and feed/clothe/send to school weekly. I don’t think it’s fair that all income be divided equally as each household does not have the same expenses. Common sense will tell you that Janelle and Christines food budget is a lot more than Meri’s.

You’re absolutely right! It’s obvious that it takes more money to feed and clothe 7 people than it does 2. And it’s insensitive of Meri to flaunt all the extras that she gets to buy simply because she has enough money left over than the other 3 wives. Kody – wake up! Can’t you see this isn’t fair??

No, Janelle also worked. Christine stayed home with the kids. Meri said she got fired for being a polygamist. Janelle left a good paying job to move to Vegas.

I think you have a very misconstrued perception of why they said that (and it wasnt said as nastily as you are presenting it). They split the budget equally among all 4 wives, despite the amount of children they have. So Janelle & Christine have 7 mouths to feed and get the same amount of money as Meri, who has 2 mouths to feed. Meri then smugly revels in how much her daughter Mariah gets (clothes, computers, ipods etc) because she doesnt have to distribute her resources as thinly as the other wives- to the point where she has an empty 5bdr (+hobby room) mansion while other kids are sharing rooms- it’s so unnecessary- she even blew out her budget and took up the most resources from the family for no real reason! If she was as desperate for a child as she portrays, she would have tried IVF 2 years ago, or agreed to accept Robyns surrogacy offer a year ago.

Essentially- Janelle & Christine get bare essential necessities, while every whim & desire of Meri’s is indulged (wet bar, expensive dates, trips to Mexico, Utah). I think when you are talking about an entire family, its only LOGICAL that if you have very limited resources and you dont need something, you dont take it. If Meri really cared about the other kids as much as she pretends to, she would never have insisted on renting a bigger/better house when she didnt need the space and knew Janelle & Christine were struggling to find grocery money. Or for that matter, buying the largest most expensive house, despite having the smallest family. If anything, she is the cruel one and clearly the most manipulative. Did you know that Janelle’s inheritance money was spent obtaining the house in Lehi, and within a year or two Meri had forced her way into being named on the title. Meri has confessed that she was cruel to Janelle but never actually said sorry- just sorry you felt that I was being cruel. She has no accountability. And the bad tree bears bad fruit- Mariah is a spoiled brat- compare her to Janelle’s logical and relatively realistic children. You should be ashamed of yourself presenting Meri as a victim when she is clearly nothing but a pathetic bully.

I wish I could applaud your comment. ITA!

Meri is horrible. She should not get the big house. Why are they agreeiing to that? I have read their book. I feel so bad for Janelle. She was so mistreated in the early days of this arrangement. After reading the book, I think Meri wanted to have a secret “affair” with Robyn (and Kody) to get back at the other wives. Meri sees the marriage between herself and Kody as the true marriage and the other wives are an extention of their marriage. I want the other wives to take their kids and TLC money and leave.

why would you enter into a plural marriage if you know you will be jealous???? Other than being forced? I dont get it..it you were raised this way, and agree with it…well, there should be no jealousy….it is what it is….
The other family, with Joe the master… the women all seemed to like to be controlled…like aging barbie dolls who need direction…their only purpose is to have children, or help raise another ‘s child, and look good for hubby ……….Kody…..from my observance of your show….you need to rule the roost…like that Joe…..after all, are not your wives really just there to make babies?????? and when they cant..they are to help raise the other wives children??
the first one ….Mari…does not need a huge house….how those other ones could agree to splitting the costs of that is beyond me….thanks for giving me my guilty pleasure…..i dont watch any reality shows other than yours…oh, your jewelery….., it should be more generic..i thought some of it would just be for “regular people”,,….nice designs and such….I’m not about to wear anything about you guys, but something you designed that I liked I would buy.it ….and tell everyone i know who designed it….good conversation…..just a thought….

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