‘Sister Wives’: Kody Brown Again Chooses 4th Wife Robyn Over His Own Kids

Kody Brown is part of a package deal. The Sister Wives star says he’s open to reconciling with his estranged children, but only if they fully accept his relationship with his fourth – and only remaining – wife Robyn Brown. 

Kody Brown says he’s ‘holding a hand out’ to his estranged kids 

Kody, 55, opened up about the complex dynamics of the Brown family in the Jan. 12 episode of Sister Wives, which focused on his ex-wife Christine Brown’s wedding to David Woolley. 

The TLC personality admitted that he was having a difficult time adjusting to not being at the center of his large family’s world. The dad of 18 said it was “different” to be in a situation where he wasn’t getting as much “attention” as he was used to. But he insisted there were no hard feelings, even though he was relying on his kids to take the first step toward reconciliation.  

“My children will always be my children and the door will always be open to them,” Kody said. “They’ve got to come through that door.”

While he wanted to have a relationship with all of his children, he said he wasn’t willing to sacrifice what he had with Robyn to do so. 

“I’m going to be holding a hand out for that, but I’m going to be holding this hand that’s next to me, and I won’t let go of that hand,” he said. “I will not cut off Robyn to have a relationship with my children.”

Robyn says she and Kody are ‘outcasts’ in the Brown family 

Kody is OK letting his kids take the lead in fixing their broken relationship. But Robyn is unhappy about the bitter family fracture. She said she wasn’t shocked when she and Kody didn’t get an invite to Christine’s big day, but the exclusion still stung.  

“It didn’t surprise me that we weren’t invited. We’re the outcasts. We’ve been voted off the island,” she said. 

Kody has repeatedly said that he needs to stand up for Robyn in the face of his kids’ animosity toward her. 

“You’re not going to separate us. They want their dad, but they don’t want Robyn,” Kody said in a 2023 episode of Sister Wives. “That’s not going to work. Robyn and I are going to be like this. We’re going to work this out. And that’s just the relationship we’re going to be in.”

Kody’s son Gabe says his dad needs to ‘take accountability’ 

Kody’s kids tell a different story of what’s wrong in their family. They say he’s to blame for the rift. If he wants it to heal, he needs to take a hard look at his own behavior. 

“I told dad that if he doesn’t change and he can’t take accountability, then I just won’t ever see him again,” Kody’s son Gabe Brown told his mom Janelle Brown in an October 2024 episode of Sister Wives. “And I’m perfectly OK with that.”

Nor was Gabe optimistic about his chances of having a relationship with Robyn, whom he said had “a victim complex.”

“If she actually believes that we were mistreating her or her children in any way when she was constantly getting favorited by dad and we were always working on our relationship with her kids. If she actually believes that, then there’s no chance of me having a relationship with Robin ever again,” he said. “I don’t know, I just, I don’t have a lot of respect for Robyn.”

Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on TLC. Episodes also stream on Max and discovery+. 

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