Last night was the second to last episode of Sister Wives this season. (It was technically the finale, but there’s a “bonus” episode coming up in two weeks.) Patriarch Kody Brown had to break the news to his hoard of very sweet innocent kids that their family was moving to Las Vegas – in three days! They told the oldest five kids a couple of weeks ahead of time, but made the very stupid decision not to tell the rest of their kids (the other 11, there are 16 in total), they were moving until the very last minute. The deadline was due to the timing of when their school semester ended and when the new one started in Nevada. The reason they were moving so suddently is because they were facing an investigation by local authorities for felony bigamy. Kody told his kids that their family might get split up if they didn’t leave Utah immediately. That investigation has not gone anywhere and Kody has not been charged with anything. Cohabitation with multiple partners in Nevada is not a crime.
So Kody made the decision to break the news to all the younger kids at once and most of them started bawling when they realized that they were leaving all their friends and their school behind. Then Kody is all “here’s the hard part, you can’t tell anyone else.” Are you kidding me? The kids can’t tell their best friends or their teachers that they’re going to leave forever in three days? That bothered me so much. What’s more is it was Kody’s stupid idea. I guess he thought that the kids might jeopardize the pending investigation and that the authorities would get tipped off that his family was skipping town. All he was doing was making an incredibly difficult situation even worse for his children and denying them the chance to say goodbye to their friends.
When the older kids asked Kody what would happen with Mariah, his 14 year-old daughter with Meri who refused to leave the Mormon private school and found public school in Utah too difficult to handle, he was not sympathetic. Kody got stubborn and rude and made a lot of proclamations about how God gave him the power to make this decision.
“I need you to remember a very important mantra. ‘Where we go one, we go all.’ When you guys are 18 and graduated you can make your own choices, but in this case we go as a family.”
Mariah had a whole list of reasons she should stay, most importantly that she should finish out her school year, but Kody shot them all down, narrating later while he was smiling that these things were “valid to a teenager” and “I have to say, the one thing which is the main thing is that we keep the family together, and that had to trump all of it.”
Kody said “I feel like God has given me a responsibility to keep you under my house, so I feel like you should be with us in our home at least til you’re 18 and graduated if not beyond that ’til you’re married. That’s my belief and because it’s my responsibility to answer to God for it, I feel like that I should have you come with me. My job as given by God when you were born was to take care of you in my realm and have you in my home until you’re married.”
Then Kody narrated later that it was “very easy to be empathetic to her because I got it” and that it was easy to say “sweetheart come along, please, please come with us.” Excuse me, he got it? He told her it was his way or the highway and that he had divine power. He didn’t say please one time that I heard.
So GOD told Kody to jerk his kids around, bring them to Vegas with three days notice and not even let them say goodbye to their friends. He gets to have four wives and move his family around wherever he wants because God gave him the authori-tay.
I get that Kody and the wives felt pressured to get out of town before the investigation, and that they were under a lot of stress. I think they acted out of fear, though, and that they should have stayed and waited to see how things turned out rather than running out of town. I doubt that their family would have been broken up and I doubt that Kody would have been successfully prosecuted.
Here’s a video that was not shown on last night’s show where they admit that the police said that the children would not be questioned and that the investigation was complete. I just don’t get why they moved so suddenly except to appease Kody.
he’s the biggest dick wad. Like eff you and all your selfish babymaking, cause it’s your kids who are paying for the fact you had to be a famewhore and get a reality program. God, social services need to take his kids away and what’s more his dumb sister wives need to regulate his egotistical ass.
As I have said before, this type of life (polygamy) is NOT for me in any way shape or form, but, I don’t look down on people who do live that lifestyle as long as they aren’t being forced to and that ALL parties involved are happy, healthy, and not abused.
That said, I -really- hate Kody. Especially with these comments he is making and that he would not even take the time to listen to why his daughter did not want to go.
And I am completely confused as to why he wants to pick up and move like that when history shows that polygamists are not often prosecuted unless the children are being harmed. What has he to hide?
I think this asshat needs to crawl back “under his house” and stay there. Those poor kids. Words cannot express how ickified he is.
They had to move in three days because it makes the show better.. that’s why
If God told him to do all that stuff, how come s/he didn’t tell him to cut his effing hair, sell his 2 seater, and quit exploiting his family for profit?
He’s a total douchebag and making the kids move without saying goodbye to their friends and giving them no notice of the move is horrible, especially in light of the fact that the investigation seems more like a non-investigation that is going nowhere.
However, if we had to move or decided a move was best for our family, there’s no way in hell I’d leave a 14 year old behind. It sucks, but happens to a lot of kids and isn’t the end of the world. Of course, they’d have lots of time to get used to the idea and say goodbye to ALL their friends.
I think I should read Celebitchy policy on this but I won’t, so I’ll just F-bomb away: F*ck you, Kody, you f*cking f*ck. You don’t put your kids through that, you DON’T.
This “man” is just gross. I’ve ne’er seen the show (and admittedly all I know is what I’ve read here), but I cannot understand what these “sister wives” see in this guy. He’s ordinary looking and not that great of a provider and he seems like he’s just a bully trying to over-compensate for his short-comings (insert joke here!). It doesn’t sound like the women have a say in anything (although they DO go along with his shit).
I know a triad (FMF) that is the most well-adjusted and loving family I’ve e’er met, but to show them wouldn’t be nearly as “sensational” as showing these inbreds.
I really hope the ladies are better to these poor children than this man. At least their friends in Utah probably knew their “situation” and could support them; I really hope they (the kids) all do OK in Vegas…
We need a law in this country FORBIDING any child under the age of 18 to appear in a reality show – it really messes kids up and is a form of child abuse
Add this douche and his goofy wife harem to my list of people I want to go away forever so I never have to see or hear from them again.
So here’s an updated list:
Lindsay Lohan
all the Kardashians (except maybe Khloe)
Charlie Sheen
Lady Gaga
these f*cking tools
I mean, really. This guy needs to disappear for his corny name-spelled-with-a-K alone.
I can’t stomach this show & I don’t even watch it. My mom watched one episode & it pissed her off so much she cursed. She hates cursing. She told me about the episode and it made me mad. Anyway I think they are hiding something deeper. It doesn’t make sense to just up and move your entire family, on such short notice. The poor kids. He gives me the creeps & I DETEST when ppl do stupid shit and say God told them to, no you’re just a selfish asshole.
Well of course Kody was amused that Mariah wanted to finish the school year – the poor kid doesn’t know that being well educated is about the last thing he’d want in a female!
these people really epitomize all that is bad in reality television
like that kate gooseling, meh
the world is better off not knowing them!
Haha he has a lady bob.
he makes me sick. and after the way these women let him treat their children….they make me sick also.
poor children.
god has nothing to do with a douchebag with too many issues to count.
Oh, so “God” is now a bunch of guys in suits making decisions in a boardroom to raise show ratings. Got it.
Gah, Kody…whhhhyyyyyyy??! Why does he have to be on the show?
And cosign on children under 18 not being in reality shows. I feel that the children should be protected.
If there were a god, I’m pretty sure s/he had better things to do than to give this guy anything, much less the authority to ruin his kids’ lives.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE RATINGS.
HE SHOULD ROT IN HELL.
WHICH I’M SURE HE WILL.
I was deeply disturbed watching the family panic and move so quickly. Those poor kids. I can’t imagine having to pack my life up in a few hours to relocate because my mom’s crazy husband said it was a sign from God.
Also, his hair needs to GO.
Kody is such an effing selfish and ignorant a$$ it is almost beyond comprehension, that he hides behind *religion* makes it worse. IMO, his wives are with him because they have just as low self-esteem as he does and that is why they allow their children to be brought up in this mess. When I watched the show last night I cursed at the TV too, they got THREE flat tires and had only gone about 200 miles – Kody whined about how hard it was to find the right size tires for his luxury lexus and wondered about a sign from GOD – which he quickly dismissed, perhaps because they didn’t have FOUR flats, or THREE is beyond his grasp of reality, or the fact that a lexus is NOT God’s 21st century version of a covered-wagon is lost on him!
Even one of the teenage boys got it and pointed out the absurdity of the whole situation in a way that was far more perceptive and grown-up than any of the adults. I feel sorry for ALL of their children and think they should have the option of living in another situation (ie, non-polyg and less emotional abuse and neglect) since the children seem to have a better idea of what is really going on than the adults, and obviously the children’s needs are way down the line in priority compared to Kody’s ego/schlong, ie, the only thing making decisions for everyone involved.
I watched a few episodes of this show with my mom and we both felt his wives were completely whipped. He’s a big douche and I cannot see how intelligent, secure women would want his ass.
Whatever was going on I don’t think the fear was manufactured. Janelle says very little on camera, seems to have the most common sense and she was even freaking out.
If this was anybody else I could understand moving and wanted to keep the family together. But Kody is an egotistical tool. I don’t think he cares about the family just about not looking bad.
I’ll say it. I think that this polygamist life is destructive to the women AND the children.
There is an inherent imbalance of power that is wrong on every level. It is Kuntry Kody imposing his personal ideas on his life and his family members’ lives in the guise of religion; in a very arbitrary and self-serving manner.
I will never watch it, and agree with all who said that they should outlaw reality television appearances for children under the age of 18.
@blue: I cosign your comment, that there is something *else* going on here as far as the reason for the move besides ratings. It just hasn’t come to light yet.
I have never–and WILL never–watch this drivel, but the comments here make me so sad for those kids and angered at their stupid mothers for letting their kids and themselves get treated this way. NO mother worth her salt would allow this. I have to wonder what these women are really thinking inside, and why they would let this asshole run them. If they all presented a unified front and said they were staying, guess what? Kody would back down and THEN I might watch to see the fun.
Not defending this guy but same thing happened to me when I was 12…I got two weeks warning we were changing countries and couldn’t tell anyone til the day I left. My dad wasn’t a polygamist though, just a diplomat. Actually shocked me how outraged everyone is and I started thinking, yeah, that wan’t particularly good parenting but like Kody’s kids I never had any choice so after a while you quit questioning.
This lifestyle is ridiculous in the United States of America. (Koty) acts as if he is living in the middle east. Maybe he should pack his clan up and move there. Then all he would have to do is “kill” any female in his family that is going against his “godly authority”. Because of this idiot (Koty), everyone in his household needs to be on medication. And the real crime is being committed against the children. They may really have a chance if they were not around these disfunctional morons! Jesus help them all. We are all witnessing the upbringing of criminals into our society. Keep your eyes and ears open Americans, we will be hearing about (Koty’s)children and wives in the news. And, I’m afraid that we will find out that they have all turned into “bad news” !
No, I don’t watch the show. I hear inserts about it and I read.
What a wanker.
How ironic that they have to move to Sin City to be ignored by the general public because of their “faith based” crapola.
Why is there a factually incorrect, emtionally inflammatory ad for an anti-planned parenthood organization on this page? If that is the official position of this website I will have to leave and never return. If it is not your position, then how could you take their money?
Almost makes you want Kate Goslin back….almost…ICK!!!!!!!!!!!
Cults f@ck up families and destroy lives. This is sad. I hope the kids get out.
SHAME, SHAME on Meri for allowing this psychopath to do this to her daughter Mariah. Shame on her! She has completely failed her daughter as a mother and should not be breeding anymore, since she has no idea what it means to be a child’s advocate.
i hope everyone just stops watching this kind of crap tv, for the sake of their kids, no normal women would share her man.what a sad example they set for their daughters in turn.
@blue and solitary angel, I wonder if some of what hasn’t *come to light* yet is the hypocrisy associated with polygamy and the state of Utah, the Mormon church, and other places where LDS have large numbers. Otherwise why did they have to move if the chances of legal problems are limited? Of course the official stance of the church is *we don’t condone polygamy* but the amount of cases where polygamy is actually stopped and/or results in any type of prosecution is almost nil. It’s just pushed to the fringes and/or swept under the rug. Advanced education outside the insular FLDS and to some extent regular Mormon community is helping, but there are still generations of children being raised to believe it is preferable – and necessary – for *holier* men to call ALL the shots and go wherever their peen takes them – women, teens and children are supposed to be subservient to the man of the house, no matter what, otherwise NO heaven! What kind of crap is that? I feel bad watching the show a few times now – all those kids deserve much better than the drama they are being forced into. 🙁
@A – Those ads are automatic from Google and are not personally approved or vetted by us at all. We have blocked the URL Americans4Life.org from Google adsense, but it will take some time for the system to put it into effect. I’m so sorry that those were appearing on the site and hopefully this will take care of it.
Of COURSE he thinks he needs to keep his daughter “under his house” (what is she, the wicked witch of the west?) He refuses to hit on the religious aspect of his lifestyle unless someone tries to escape, and then he’s no better than the Duggars or those sick twists in the FLDS. Kody is the worst kind of abuser: a control freak who finds vulnerable women and convinces them that any idiotic thing he does to mess up their lives comes directly from God. I hope he chokes.
While I agree with everyone about Kody, I do disagree about the children. Not about that they shouldn’t be on TV. These kids seem like good, well-adjusted children. They all seem to be fairly intelligent. So, while this man is gross and the women are letting him rule over them, the kids seem happy. I’ve noticed in several episodes where one of the little girls is always coming and hugging her dad or sitting on his lap.
I have nothing against polygamy and I really think what people do in their personal lives is none of our business, but I agree that this guy seems like a douchebag. :\
My dog gets better treatment than these children! (And probably a lot of other dogs do, too.)
Isn’t it symbolic that the only person to express true concern for the children was the officer who stopped them on the road?
I love it how they say they don’t want attention on their lifestyle when they have a TV show about the lifestyle. I mean, what did they think was going to happen when they came out on TV with a polygamist lifestyle when that is illegal in Utah?
This show has me stumped. Not that I’m offened by it but it amazes me that America is OK with it.