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Robyn Brown is getting real about the potential of going plural with Kody Brown again.
On a season 20 episode of Sister Wives that aired Sunday, Nov. 2, Kody revealed to Robyn that another woman wanted to join the mix following the dissolution of Kody’s plural marriages to Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown. And while Robyn, 47, apparently wasn’t happy with the woman’s approach of contacting Kody, 55, she did understand what made her husband so “attractive.”
“I’m just gonna say it. When a young woman sees a married, stable man, that is attractive. You know, he’s figured out some of his bull crap, he’s got a wife that’s happy and he knows how to be a dad,” Robyn said. “I mean, I’m sorry but that’s gonna make any girl’s eggs drop. I mean any young woman would be like, ‘Oh, he’s [marriage] material because he’s already married.’ ”
She added, “Truth be told, for one split second, I kind of go, ‘Hmm.’ For a split second, I think, ‘Oh, wouldn’t this be great? This is what I’ve always wanted for my life.’ And, ‘Hmm, how would they fit?’ ”
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After Robyn’s revelation, cameras cut to a scene of Kody and Robyn speaking at the table and reflecting on another moment in the past when a woman reached out about joining their family. Kody said the idea was “just too weird.”
“We’re married,” he said. “I don’t want to know that another woman’s having a crush on me. Even if it makes me feel special, it’s sort of ridiculous, right?”
“It didn’t used to be ridiculous,” Robyn quipped, before laughing.
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Kody, speaking separately to the cameras, then explained why being married to more than one woman had its problems. The TLC star, who spiritually wed Robyn in 2010 before legally marrying her in 2014, is now in a monogamous relationship with his wife after years of being married to multiple women.
In the years since the show first aired in 2010, Kody and Christine announced their split in 2021, Janelle confirmed she and Kody were separated the next year, and PEOPLE also confirmed in 2022 his 32-year marriage with first wife Meri was over.
“Anytime you have two entities, one is going to outshine the other. Guys can deal with that. But Christine couldn’t deal with that,” Kody said during Sunday’s episode. “Let’s just be really honest, could I fairly love all of these women? I wanted to. I really tried to. I even faked it. But in the end, it just wasn’t going to work.”
PEOPLE previously debuted an exclusive sneak peek of Sunday’s episode last week, showing the moment Kody told Robyn about the email he got from their perspective plural-marriage participant. The woman was “chastising me for deciding to quit plural marriage,” Kody said, before she attempted to “get to know us for the purpose of joining the family.”
“I find it very inappropriate that they would send it to Kody,” Robyn said. “It’s not usually proper to go hitting on a guy. You have to go through the sister wives, you have to go through, like, at least one.”
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
