Merry Brown It is giving we An inside look behind the scenes Sister wives.
“There are a lot of good memories,” Brown, 53, said exclusively. Us Weekly In December. “When I skied down the hill and landed on the other side of the snow berm. I don't even know what you call it.”
Meri has starred in the TLC series since its premiere in 2010 alongside her ex-husband Cody Brown, Janelle Brown, Christine Brown and Robyn Brown. While Meri has become a pro in front of the camera over the past 19 seasons, she admitted that the first day of filming took her by surprise.
“Just thinking about the first scene when I was introduced, I didn't expect the cameras to be there,” she recalled. “I didn't know they were there. I would have been a little more prepared.”
When the show started, Meri, Janelle, 55, and Kristen, 52, were on set They are all married to Cody55, was in the process of courting Robyn, whom he married in 2014. However, their relationship Relationship dynamics I've changed a lot since then. Kristen and Kody broke up in 2021 while Janelle and Kody broke up the following year. While Meri prefers to be camera ready, she teased that Kody is the person most likely to be the “star of the blooper reel.”
“Just because all the things that come out of his mouth have to be wrong,” she joked.
Although the Brown family has been open about their on-screen life, there are some topics that Meri doesn't like to touch on on the show.
“I don't like talking or hearing other people talk about intimacy, PDA, and finances,” she said. we. “I think finances are not an essential conversation.”
As for who takes longer to get ready, Meri admitted that it's kind of a bullshit between her and Robyn.
“It always takes me an hour and a half to get ready,” she admitted, adding, “Sometimes I've done that in 45 years, but that's only when I'm at home.”
While Kody is still married to Robyn to this day, Janelle, Kristen, and Meri (aka the ex-wives club) have remained close as they continue to navigate life as a family. Meri shared that over the years her favorite family gatherings were supposed to be Thanksgiving Their children They were present. Meri and Cody have a son, Leon, 29. Cody is also the father of six children: Logan, 30, Maddie, 29, Hunter, 27, Gabrielle, 23, and Savannah, 20. Share with Janelle. Cody and Kristen also have six children together: Aspen, 29, Mykelti, 28, Baydon, 26, Gwendelyn, 23, Isabelle, 21, and Truilli, 14. Fourth wife, RobinCody shares son Solomon, 13, and daughter Ariella, 8. He also adopted Robyn's younger children from her previous marriage: David, 24, Aurora, 22, and Brianna, 20. (Kody and Janelle were also parents to son Garrison, who died in March at age 25.)
“As kids get older, they go and do different things on different vacations,” Merry said. “But at Thanksgiving almost everyone was always there.”
Meri added that of all the women on the show, Kristen was the “best” at cooking, but she joked that she made “some not-so-good stuff, too.”
Sister wives It airs on TLC Sundays at 10 PM ET.
With reporting by Cristina Garibaldi