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Daily Mail
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sister Wives star Janelle Brown clears the air about her sexuality and reveals what she's looking for in a man
TLC's Sister Wives brought their 19th season to a close on Sunday with the fourth and final installment of their One-on-One special, where Janelle Brown opened up about her sexuality. Janelle, 56, was the the second to marry Kody Brown in 1993, following Meri tying the knot in 1990, and she was also the second to leave him in 2023, after Christine left in 2021. While only one of the Sister Wives remain we d to Kody - Robyn, who tied the knot in 2010 - they are all still a part of the show, though this year's "reunion" was instead a series of one-on-one interviews with Sukanya Krishnan. Janelle used part of her time to clear up speculation that she is 'asexual,' which she assured viewers is not the case. 'I promise you, I'm not asexual. Everybody has this idea just because I didn't want to have assembly line kisses with Kody or whatever, that I was asexual,' Janelle said. 'And the hormones are hell when you're single. But, you know, it's like, you just deal with it or whatever,' she added. 'I suspect that someday down the road, if there's somebody else, then that will be part of it,' she added. She added of the rumors, 'It's so wild to me that everybody has assumed. So, just trust that I am not. I am very... I'm a very sexual being. I'm a very Earth mama.' When asked if she would be part of a polygamous relationship again, Janelle added, 'I'm not gonna say no, but I just don't foresee that I'm gonna meet very many people who live plural marriage these days.' When asked if she would be open to a monogamous relationship, she said, 'Maybe, but I'm definitely not gonna be dating on those weird apps.' Host Sukanya Krishnan asked Janelle to describe the kind of man she is looking for, as she responded, 'Someone who's very solid, who knows who they are.' She added that she doesn't want someone who is, 'super flashy,' adding, 'I'm kind of done with flashy.' Janelle welcomed six children with Kody - Hunter, Madison, Logan, Gabriel, Savanah and the late Garrison, adding she has had an interesting experience watching her daughters with their husbands. 'You know, it's interesting. I watch my children, our children with their husbands, and I'm like, "Wow, that's a really different experience,"' she said. 'I suspect that someday down the road, if there's somebody else, then that will be part of it,' she added. 'They're very engaged with each other and so, I don't know, I guess I'm just like, "Huh, maybe I want something a little bit more like that,' she admitted. Krishnan said near the end of the special that it was her hope that they could get everybody on a couch together at some point. 'Yeah, maybe. I'd really like that. I actually... that could happen. That'd be very interesting,' she said.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sister Wives ' Janelle Says Kody & Robyn's Courtship Wasn't Appropriate
Originally appeared on E! Online Sometimes size really does matter. At least when it comes to the length of a relationship. Because while hindsight is 20/20, Sister Wives star Janelle Brown feels that if she'd had a bit more time to date Kody Brown before their 1993 vows, she may not have become the polygamist's second wife. "If I had a year with Kody, I'm not sure I would have married him, honestly," she revealed to host Sukanya Krishnan during the final installment of the TLC series' one-on-one special June 15. "I might have seen him for a little bit more of who he was, you know what I mean? Gotten sort of off the charm ride." Instead, reasoned the 56-year-old, who shares Logan Brown, 31, , 29, Hunter Brown, 28, Gabriel Brown, 23, and , 20, and her late son Garrison with the father of 18, she was taken by the saleman's "charisma" and hung on for nearly 30 years before announcing their split in 2022. "Regardless, I don't need to go back and trash everything that was," noted Janelle. "If I were to say, 'Oh, I'm really sorry I did all that,' would I be in this great place?" More from E! Online Arie Luyendyk Jr. Reveals How Daughter Senna, 4, Convinced Him to Have Another Baby After His Vasectomy Real Housewives Executive Lauren Miller Dies During Childbirth Lauren Miller's Husband Shares Update on Their Newborn After Her Death And even if she could have logged more time with the Wyoming native, it doesn't mean she should have, considering he was already married to Meri Brown at the time. (Kody's first wife announced their breakup in 2022 while third wife Christine Brown revealed they'd split in 2021.) While dating as a married man is a necessity in polygamy, Kody and his fourth—and sole remaining—wife Robyn Brown "had a very long courtship compared to the rest of us," Janelle noted. "It is not really appropriate for a married man to have a long courtship." And yet, she continued, he and the divorcée—already mom to Dayton Brown, Aurora Brown and Breanna Brown at that point—"actually courted, I think, for almost a year." Though to hear Kody tell it, he only needed a split second to know Robyn was his forever person. Describing their inital charged interaction at church—"We locked eyes and I couldn't break away," Kody has said—the patriarch noted that he fell hard after they shared a first dance. "I'm talking to her like we've known each other our whole lives," Kody described of the moment that took place with Christine and Meri in the room. "The kind of safety combined with just the depth of connection, she's very vulnerable and I was at the time and we just, there was a depth of connection that I do not believe I have ever had." He knew pretty quickly that his feelings were more intense than the ones he'd shared with his previous three spouses. "I noticed a marked difference from the beginning," acknowledged Kody. "I had no intentions of shifting away from it." And though he calls the idea that he and Robyn only wanted each other "Internet B.S." and "crappy commentary on our family," he admitted the connection was strong. As he recalled, "I'm sitting there with my journal going, 'God, what's going on? I'm already in love. I already have three wives.'" The intensity of his early courtship with Robyn—"I fell in love hard"—is just one truth Kody has shared this season. See what else he and his wives have recently divulged on the TLC series. Meri Brown Says Kody Brown Gave Her Hope for Their MarriageKody Brown Wanted to Sell Coyote PassJanelle Brown Left Kody Brown for This ReasonKody Brown Feels He's Been "Excommunicated" from His Own FamilyRobyn Brown and Kody Brown's Marriage Was on Shaky GroundMadison Brush Isn't Speaking to Her DadKody Brown Claimed He Never Loved Meri BrownJanelle Brown Threatened Legal Action Against Kody BrownKody Brown Supposedly Divulged Private Information to His Other WivesFamily Money Paid for Robyn Brown's HouseJanelle Brown Questioned How Kody Brown Handled the Family MoneyJanelle Brown and Christine Brown Woolley See Their Kids as the Core Group of the FamilyKody Brown Thinks His Wives Leaving Hurt His Relationship With the KidsKody Brown Said His Marriage to Meri Brown Was MiserableKody Brown Didn't Agree With Meri Brown Wanting a Spiritual DivorceMany of Kody Brown's Kids Aren't Speaking to Each OtherRobyn Brown's Kids Never Felt Welcomed Into the FamilyJanelle Brown Would Do Plural Marriage Again; Kody Brown Wouldn'tKody Brown Started Distancing Himself From Janelle Brown Years AgoJanelle Brown and Christine Brown Woolley's Kids Didn't Love Going to Robyn Brown's HomeJanelle Brown Questioned Robyn Brown and Kody Brown's ParentingMykelti Padron Had a Very Close Relationship With Robyn BrownOne of Kody Brown's Kids Claimed He "Brainwashed" ThemRobyn Brown Was Struggling to Respect Kody Brown as a Parent
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Sister Wives' Kody Brown Makes a Bold Confession About Robyn (Exclusive Clip)
'Sister Wives' Kody Brown Makes a Bold Confession About Robyn (Exclusive Clip) originally appeared on Parade. Sister Wives star made a bold confession about his wife, —except all of his other wives "already knew." Ahead of the Season 19 finale on June 15, TLC shared an exclusive sneak peek of the Brown family's last tell-all. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 In the clip, Kody's exes, his second wife, , and third wife, , discussed Kody and Robyn's courtship and love story. "Robyn and Kody had a very long courtship compared to the rest of us," Janelle told host Sukanya "Suki" Krishnan. "It is not really appropriate for a married man to have a long courtship. So they actually courted, I think for almost like a year." She then admitted, "If I had a year with Kody, I'm not sure I would have married him, honestly. I might have seen him for a little bit more who he was, you know what I mean? Gotten sort of off the charm ride." However, Janelle has no regrets today. "Regardless, I don't need to go back and trash everything that was or happened," she pointed out. "If I were to say, 'Oh, I'm really sorry I did all of that,' would I really be in this great place?" Meanwhile, Christine declared, "I think that it was a love story from the very, very, very beginning. It just was. and they had to just hide it." She continued, "But we all knew, and they didn't admit it to us. So it's another level of lying. It's another level of betrayal. It's another level of sorrow for them. All of it." At the very end of the sneak peek, Kody boldly confessed of his relationship with Robyn, "Polygamy doesn't actually work if you fall in love. I fell in love hard—hard." Catch the Sister Wives Season 19 finale on Sunday, June 15 at 10 p.m. ET on TLC and streaming the next day on Max. Next: 'Sister Wives' Kody Brown Makes a Bold Confession About Robyn (Exclusive Clip) first appeared on Parade on Jun 14, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
San Francisco Chronicle
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Former tech reporter explores the promises and perils of the internet era in the novel ‘What Kind of Paradise'
Janelle Brown laughs as she recounts her initial reaction upon getting her first email address as a student at UC Berkeley in the mid-1990s. 'I went into the basement of the engineering building where you could get on the internet, and I downloaded a Beastie Boys video,' the bestselling author told the Chronicle by phone from her home in Los Angeles. 'It took 45 minutes, but it was amazing. I could hardly believe it was possible. The world was definitely changing.' More Information What Kind of Paradise By Janelle Brown (Random House; 368 pages; $30) 'What Kind of Paradise' — An Evening with Author Janelle Brown: 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 6. Free. A Great Good Place for Books, 6120 La Salle Ave., Oakland. Meet Janelle Brown: 3 p.m. Saturday, June 7. Atherton Library, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane, Atherton. Free. Registration required at Inspired in part by her post-college years as a tech reporter at Wired and Salon, Brown's sixth novel, 'What Kind of Paradise,' is set in 1996 San Francisco and rural Montana. Released on Tuesday, June 3, the book deftly captures both the giddy enthusiasm of that period when the internet's possibilities felt boundless, as well as the unforeseen dangers and downsides that were ushered in with the digital revolution. 'It was a heady time when a bunch of kids in San Francisco saw everything through this optimistic, utopian prism, and, on the other hand, the Unabomber was dominating the news,' reflected Brown, referring to Ted Kaczynski, an anti-technology domestic terrorist who shunned modern life and murdered three people and injured 23 with homemade letter bombs from 1978 until his capture by the FBI in April 1996. 'What Kind of Paradise' imagines if a Kaczynski-esque figure were also a father, raising a child to fear and abhor technological change. The book features a teenager named Jane whose iconoclast dad has steeped her in his radically anti-technology views. After discovering a photo that sheds light on their mysterious past, Jane escapes from their cabin in the Montana woods to San Francisco where the dot-com era is ushering in transformational cultural change. Brown, who grew up in Atherton, discussed writing a coming-of-age story that explores tech's promises and perils, and 'how we ever escape the belief systems we were born into.' Q: This question runs through your novel about whether technology is a positive force for good, or one that is bound to doom us. Have you been wrestling with these issues for a while? A: Yes, it's a subject that has been increasingly weighing on me. When I worked at Salon and Wired in San Francisco in the 1990s, I was a total booster. I drank the Kool-Aid. I believed so strongly, as we all did back then, that technology was going to make our world better. As the decades have progressed, and I've seen technology's ugly underbelly, I've been grappling with my own sense of culpability. What if, at the beginning, we had been more open-eyed about the potential downsides? Could we have steered the world in a better direction where we had more accountability and oversight, instead of having a reflexive stance that any government oversight of technology is bad? Q: Sounds like hindsight has helped you see your techno utopianism differently. A: Definitely. I spent time going through the Wired archives (to research the novel), and it kind of broke my heart. When I look back on our rah-rah boosterism, I see we were wrong about so much — especially now that I see the world through my kids' eyes, who are 15 and 13. I've been incredibly concerned about the downsides of AI, the depersonalization of living on screens and how technology has enabled extremism. Algorithms amplify the most radical and outrageous points of view, and fringe ideas become part of the mainstream in an alarming way no one anticipated. Q: What inspired you to explore these ideas through a father-daughter relationship in which the dad is a lot like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski? A: I had been wanting to write about technology from the point of view of someone coming into San Francisco in the '90s with naivete to this whole new world opening up. Then, about four years ago, I listened to an interesting podcast on the Kaczynski story. I vividly remember living through it and being at Wired when he was captured. Everyone's reaction was, 'Yes, they caught him!' As I listened to his story, I thought how prescient he was in some ways, in terms of how he saw the future and tried to warn us. Of course, his writings were also incredibly disturbing, sexist, anti-liberal. I realized these are two sides of the same coin, two very different views of the same future. Q: You've written great descriptions of mid-'90s San Francisco, with its juice bars and 20-somethings out in South Park. What did you most want to convey about that period? A: It was such an exciting time. San Francisco was the birthplace of the whole modern internet era, and it was all done by young people. We were barely out of college, hardly qualified to do what we were doing, but we got to define this whole new era. People forget, because the tech world isn't like this anymore, but it was funky, artsy. There were a lot of weirdos who were in bands and making weird art, and everyone was a bit of a misfit. It wasn't until IPOs and tech bros blew in and everyone realized that they could make a lot of money that it really changed. And San Francisco changed. It felt less vibrant to me. Q: Did you enjoy developing Jane's character? She's self-reliant and incredibly well-read after a childhood spent studying philosophy in the woods with her dad, but she's also in some ways a normal teenager. A: Yeah, I love teenagers. I'm fascinated with coming-of-age stories and that moment in time when you're still unformed clay and life's forces are starting to press you into shape. As much as I had ideas about technology to explore, at the heart of every book I write is a relationship story. I love writing about thorny family relationships, legacy and what we take from the people who raise us and how we break free of them. In this case, her father isn't mentally well, but he's convincing, charismatic and smart — and he's her whole world.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sister Wives ' Christine Brown "Disgusted" by Kody Brown Relationship
Originally appeared on E! Online Christine Brown is looking back on her marriage to Kody Brown in shame. During the Sister Wives season 19 tell-all on May 25, Christine—who became the first of the patriarch's three exes to leave their plural marriage in 2021—reflected on her 25-year relationship with Kody, father of their kids Aspyn, 30, Mykelti, 28, Paedon, 26, Gwendlyn, 23, Ysabel, 21, and Truely, 15. "You realize I loved Kody, like, four years ago?" Christine told husband as they were packing to leave for filming. "So much of my life was so focused on him, and it makes me disgusted with myself." She then shared a key difference she noticed when comparing her and David's union to her past relationship with the father of 18, who remains married to Robyn Brown following his 2022 breakups from first wife Meri Brown and fellow ex Janelle Brown. "You're always here. You're always a constant. And I always know when you're here," Christine noted of David. "I never knew when Kody would be around. He kept us always in suspense. But not really." Christine also noted an apparent aspect about her past relationship with Kody that she finds "weird and embarrassing." "My life was just wrapped up in what Kody needed and what he wanted and what the family needed and wanted," she told host Sukanya Krishnan. "He didn't just do whatever we were doing."We had to change what we were doing to accommodate him. And that's not OK. That's not fair. That's making it so our lives are focused on him." She added, "And that's frustrating to me. And it's embarrassing that I lived it." More from E! Online Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Dead at 79 After Alzheimer's Diagnosis Bindi Irwin Shares Update on Healing Journey 2 Weeks After Emergency Surgery Rosie O'Donnell Reveals Weight Loss Transformation After Using Mounjaro She added, referencing his time spent with fourth wife Robyn, "Well, I knew where he was at. That's our biggest fight." Christine further addressed "weird and embarrassing' aspects of her and Kody's marriage during a one-on-one conversation with host Sukanya Krishnan. "My life was just wrapped up in what Kody needed and what he wanted and what the family needed and wanted," the 53-year-old shared. "He didn't just do whatever we were doing. We had to change what we were doing to accommodate him. And that's not OK. That's not fair. That's making it so our lives are focused on him." "And that's frustrating to me,' Christine continued. 'And it's embarrassing that I lived it." The former couple's conflicts were apparent to their daughter Gwendlyn, who recently noted she saw the signs that the relationship between her parents—who were never legally married—wasn't working. "I felt like they should have divorced for a while," she told Teen Vogue in an interview published May 14. 'I remember one time as a kid, I saw them arguing, and my first thought was, 'I hope they get a divorce.' What kid thinks that, right?" As for Kody, he is done with polygamy. "I don't want to be flippant with my answer, because we were devoted to this, but I'm not interested in plural marriage anymore," Kody told Robyn on an April episode of Sister Wives. "I don't want to pursue another woman because I don't want that headache—the questions, the struggles, the wonder about trust." The four-part Sister Wives season 19 tell-all special begins May 25 at 10 p.m. on TLC. Look back at the love lives of the Sister Wives BrownMykelti BrownAspyn Brown For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
