Janelle and Kody Brown met while they were both in relationships with other people. They formally met through Meri Brown, and little did they know that a simple introduction would lead to a life-changing connection. It’s almost as if fate brought them together through Kody’s first wife since Janelle’s first husband, Adam Barber, is Meri’s brother. Janelle was only married to him for two years before they split. Kody then started courting Janelle. They got married just two weeks after going out on one date.
The patriarch claimed that his romance with Janelle came about because of their “spirituality and intellectual compatibility,” in addition to his obvious attraction to her. She joined the Brown family as Kody’s second wife on January 17, 1993, which also happened to be Kody’s birthday. This might seem a little sketchy considering they were both attached to their respective partners when they met. In her defense, Janelle didn’t divorce her husband because of Kody.
After marrying Barber, Janelle gradually realized that she was more interested in his family’s religion and was dismayed that her husband wasn’t as immersed in it. In the family’s 2012 memoir “Becoming Sister Wives,” she wrote, “My husband wasn’t really interested in either his new faith or the branch of fundamentalism he’d been raised in. He had very little spiritual conviction. His family, however, fascinated me,” (via ET).
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