Sister Wives’ Kody Brown and His Wives Reveal How They’re Social Distancing Amid Coronavirus (Exclusive)
Making it work. Kody Brown and wives Christine, Meri, Robyn and Jannelle Brown are doing their best to keep busy while social distancing, but it’s tougher for some than others.
In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, the Sister Wives cast revealed how they’ve been handling living in quarantine — and not being able to see each other.
“Normal life has ceased for me, my wives and our family. We’re all working from home, however, some of us are not able to do necessary travel for work, and some of our entire industries are shut down,” Kody, 51, said. “Two of my wives run an online business so they are still working remotely but they aren’t able to do some of the in-person tasks they normally do. Overall there have been some setbacks and some things have slowed down significantly.”
The reality star explained that he and Christine, 47, Meri, 49, Robyn, 41, and Jannelle, 50, are in constant communication but don’t have “much to discuss” other than checking in on the kids. Between all of them, they share 18 children, nine who are 18 or younger.
“We’re still in contact and talking a lot, but because nothing is going on in our lives, life has gotten a bit boring. There’s not much to discuss other than checking in on the kids, who are doing school from home,” the salesman added. “There’s no new news within our family but obviously we’re keeping updated about the news of the world. Instead of talking about the weather we’re talking about coronavirus. The discussions have shifted to obsession! We’ve been asking each other, ‘Do you have any friends or know anybody who has it?’ Other than that, there’s not much else to talk about.”
“The relationship between he and I is gone,” she shared. “It’s dead. It’s over.”
Scroll through the gallery below to hear more from Kody and his four wives. The finale of Sister Wives airs on TLC Sunday, April 12, at 10 p.m. ET.
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Kody
“We’ve severed family gatherings completely. I’ve been contacting family by phone. Me and my wives have done a couple of conference calls and we’ll probably do more where we update each other on everything going on within our family.”
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Christine
“We’ve been doing embroidery, cross-stitching and crocheting. I’m teaching the girls how to do more handiwork. Kody crafting? Not yet, I can’t imagine him holding a glue gun. We’ve been making our own products with raw ingredients, we’re really trying not to go to the store so I even made my own face moisturizer.”
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Janelle
“I really think it would have been easier to deal with being quarantined if we were all under one roof because we’re having to be so separate. We have to limit family gatherings, and if we were together, our exposure would be one less person going to the grocery store instead of doing it for separate households. There would be more camaraderie.”
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Meri
“My typical schedule involves a lot of travel and I always feel blessed when I get to be at home more than a little bit of time. Luckily, I’m able to work from home so this doesn’t feel out of the norm for me, at this point. I’ve limited where I go and my daily errand running. I’m not seeing much of the rest of the family because we’re all quarantining, so it’s a little weird that we can’t get together but we know it’s best to stay in our own individual homes.”
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Robyn
“Since we’re staying so distant from each other we need to make phone calls and find other ways to stay in touch as much as possible, like video chat or sending care packages. That’s one of the things I’m noticing, I’m talking to my family more because I have the time and because we’re all worried right now.”