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'Sister Wives' brings polygamy into focus
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September 26, 2010, Sunday
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THE Duggars have 19 and counting. Kate Gosselin has eight. Kody Brown has four -- wives, that is.
Network TLC is turning its reality TV attention to another kind of domestic abundance: polygamy.
"Sister Wives" follows a fundamentalist Mormon family composed of one daddy, three mommies and 13 children living under one roof.
"It just felt like our story needed to be told," said Kody, the affable patriarch who works in advertising and lives with his family in Lehi, Utah. "There's a lot of stereotypes out there that are actually perpetuated by the press. I wanted to make sure the world understood that we're polygamists, but we're not the polygamists that you think you know."
The series follows Kody, 41, as he brings fourth "sister wife" Robyn, 31, and her three children from a previous marriage into the brood. (He is only legally married to first wife Meri, 39.) Kody and the wives, who said they are not members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, wanted to give a public face to polygamy.
Instead of examining the religion that inspires the Browns' lifestyle, "Sister Wives" focuses on their mostly mundane household as Robyn enters the mix. The Browns are far less chaotic than the fictional Henricksons from HBO's polygamy drama, and parts of their lives are off limits to reality TV.
Network TLC is turning its reality TV attention to another kind of domestic abundance: polygamy.
"Sister Wives" follows a fundamentalist Mormon family composed of one daddy, three mommies and 13 children living under one roof.
"It just felt like our story needed to be told," said Kody, the affable patriarch who works in advertising and lives with his family in Lehi, Utah. "There's a lot of stereotypes out there that are actually perpetuated by the press. I wanted to make sure the world understood that we're polygamists, but we're not the polygamists that you think you know."
The series follows Kody, 41, as he brings fourth "sister wife" Robyn, 31, and her three children from a previous marriage into the brood. (He is only legally married to first wife Meri, 39.) Kody and the wives, who said they are not members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, wanted to give a public face to polygamy.
Instead of examining the religion that inspires the Browns' lifestyle, "Sister Wives" focuses on their mostly mundane household as Robyn enters the mix. The Browns are far less chaotic than the fictional Henricksons from HBO's polygamy drama, and parts of their lives are off limits to reality TV.
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