An Emotional Confession — Meri Brown Says She Felt Something Was Wrong Amid Infertility Battle

0 1 minute read

Sister Wives star Meri Brown opened up about experiencing infertility during her marriage to Kody Brown, admitting she felt “something was wrong” with her while her sister wives — Janelle Brown and Christine Brown — welcomed children.

“There were definitely times in my life that I didn’t feel like anything that I could do was right,” Meri, 55, said during the Sunday, January 25, “One-on-One” episode of their TLC series. “Like, I couldn’t even have a baby.”

Meri gave birth to her only child, Leon, in 1995, explaining, “Then I couldn’t have anymore.”

<span class="wp-caption-text">AR4/DJDM/WENN/Newscom/The Mega Agency</span>

“I don’t think that any of them thought I was wrong, necessarily, for having feelings and emotions,” she added of Janelle, Christine and Kody’s current wife, Robyn Brown. “But I don’t know how empathetic they were with it.”

In addition to Leon, Kody, 57, shares six children with Janelle, 56, six children with Christine, 53, and five children with Robyn, 47.

<span class="wp-caption-text">Instagram/Meri Brown</span>

Meri, who was Kody’s first wife, announced her split from the polygamous patriarch in January 2023.

“I was granted what is called in our church a release, which is basically the equivalent of a divorce,” she said in an October 2024 confessional. “It was a very, very hard conversation, hard in meaning heartbreaking because this is not what I wanted to do. This is not what I intended when I married Kody.”