Sister Wives fans have watched as Brown Family patriarch Kody Brown has slowly changed from the goofy family man we met on Season 1, to the angry reality TV star we are watching on Season 19. While fans often point out on social media how much Kody has changed since Season 1, his daughter Mykelti and son-in-law Tony Padron recently discussed the topic during a recent livestream on their YouTube channel.
During the livestream, Mykelti got emotional, remembering how her father used to treat her and her siblings (many of whom Kody is now estranged from).
She also revealed that, in her opinion, it was the fame that Kody garnered from starring on ‘Sister Wives’ that ultimately changed his personality permanently, and for the worse.
“I think there were always parts of him that were like this, but I think that the show morphed his personality,” Mykelti offered. “Fame does that to people. It just morphs you. And having to deal with your faults on TV, being repeatedly thrown in your face for 14 years, it changes you.
“I think the show changed him a lot, because he wasn’t like this. He was a lot more like, ‘I understand, I did wrong. I would like to do better.’ That was my dad,” Mykelti added. “The show’s morphed him.”
While watching last week’s episode of ‘Sister Wives,’ on the livestream, Mykelti got emotional, noting that it’s “hard” to see her father act the way he does now, refusing to admit his faults and not trying to salvage the relationships with his children.
“Was he always like this? I don’t think so,” Tony said. “I think you can clearly see [from early ‘Sister Wives’ episodes] that he was not like this years ago.”
“It’s just hard to see that Kody Brown [now], because I don’t recognize that Kody Brown,” Mykelti said. “That is not the Kody Brown I was raised with. That Kody Brown is ‘Kody Brown from Sister Wives.’ That is not Kody Brown, my dad. It’s hard to see him have those conversations and those fights and those arguments because I don’t understand…”
Earlier in the livestream, Mykelti gave insight into what it was like growing up with Kody as a father, and why she feels he’s struggling to have relationships with his adult children.
“It’s hard to also remember my dad as he was when we were younger,” she said. “…before we were old enough to form our own opinions, he was very, very involved in our lives. Even back then, just because there were so many kids, it was hard to give us all one-on-one individualized attention and we knew that. We knew that it was hard, and Dad worked a lot as well. He was in sales, so he would travel a lot for work.
“…us kids, from the OG three [wives], we understood very young that we needed to compromise when we had our Dad time,” Mykelti added.
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“…we did things kind of how he wanted to, that’s how we did things,” Mykelti continued, stating that she and her siblings would often watch Kody’s favorite movies with him as a group as a way of getting more time with their dad.
Mykelti said that Kody was happy because he and his kids were spending time together, doing what Kody liked, but as they grew, Kody didn’t want to change to doing what each of his kids liked to do.
“And as we got older, and we got more identity underneath us and we got more opinionated underneath us, it became harder and harder for Dad to have this ability to bond with us as much because we all also wanted to do our own things, and we wanted to bring him into our world, and not just be brought into his,” she said. “I think that’s actually where part of the disconnect happened: Dad didn’t understand how to go into each [of his kids’] worlds, partially because there were so many [kids], but he also wasn’t used to it. He was so used to bringing us into his world [and us doing all the things he liked to do].”
Mykelti— who was one of the only allies Kody (and his wife Robyn) had among Kody’s adult children— also called out her dad for refusing to take responsibility for things he’s done and said that have hurt his kids.
“I think that if he took more accountability for any of his actions, his kids– maybe not all of them, but at least some of them– would reach out,” Mykelti stated. “Instead of blaming the children, or blaming how they feel about his relationship with his other wife or blaming the parents or blaming gossip or whatever, if he just said, ‘Look, I understand I did <blank> wrong. I’m sorry. Can we talk about it?’” Mykelti continued. “I feel like that would go such a long way.”
‘Sister Wives’ airs Sundays on TLC.
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As long as Grody was the controlling jerk that he is & always has been things are great. He can lie, manipulate, gaslight, pick & choose his wants it was all hunky dory. Kiss my azz & feet and don’t forget to bow to me and Mz. Sobyn Robyn’s 2 cents put in life was grand. I truly feel bad for the original 3 wives because they have lost so many years in their lives where they could have met Mr. Right and lived a happy, fulfilled life where you don’t share a husband because they each would have had their own. They have their children which are true gifts from God to all 3 ladies. Nothing can change about the past but make these next steps in your life the best yet. 🙏🏼🙏🏼💖💪🏽
In other words so long as he was worshipped and everyone agreed to do the things he liked everything was hunky dory. But once the children become young adults and developed their own interests his relationships with his children deteriorated. Enough with the crunchy mom, placenta eating double speak, your father was and is a selfish narcissist.