Publish date: 2023-12-02
Kody Brown was apparently not the first man who romanced Janelle Brown. Before they ever became husband and wife, Janelle was married to someone else — and surprisingly, it was Meri Brown's brother, Adam Barber. In short, prior to becoming sister wives, Janelle and Meri were sisters-in-law.
Per Entertainment Tonight, Janelle and Adam met in high school, but she was apparently more fascinated by his religion than by him. "My husband wasn't really interested in either his new faith or the branch of fundamentalism he'd been raised in," she wrote in her memoir "Becoming Sister Wives," noting that Adam "had very little spiritual conviction. His family, however, fascinated me." But they ended up marrying anyway, and funnily enough, they attended Kody and Meri's wedding. As we all know, Janelle and Adam's union didn't pan out, and it was apparently riddled with problems from the get-go. "We weren't spiritually, emotionally, or romantically compatible," Janelle added in the book. "We lived together for only six months before he moved out."
Documents obtained by Radar revealed that Janelle and Adam finalized their divorce in June 1990 after two years of marriage. However, it's worth noting that they were still together when Janelle first laid eyes on Kody. "I met Kody in the fall of 1989, even though he may not remember it," Janelle recalled in her show bio (via Us Weekly). "When he walked into the room I looked at him and had that feeling of remembering something I had forgotten. It was a singular experience."
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