'Sister Wives' star Christine Brown says she hopes it will get 'much less awkward' for the adults to movie collectively amid her cut up from Kody

• “Sister Wives” is returning to TLC for an eighteenth season, Selection confirmed on Wednesday.
• Christine Brown mentioned she’s going to “persist with” filming the present even after her divorce from Kody.
• Christine, who acquired engaged this yr, mentioned she hopes filming turns into “much less awkward” with time.

Christine Brown, the star of TLC’s “Sister Wives,”  says that she’s going to “persist with” filming the hit actuality present for its upcoming eighteenth season, and that she hopes filming together with her former husband, Kody Brown, and her different former relations will get “much less awkward.”

In an interview printed on Wednesday by Selection’s senior TV options editor, Emily Longeretta, the TLC president Howard Lee mentioned that “Sister Wives” could be returning for season 18 and that there was “no finish in sight” for the sequence.

The present has adopted the polygamist Kody Brown, his 4 wives, and their 18 youngsters via one catfishing scandal, two strikes, and three on-screen monogamous weddings since season one premiered in 2010. Season 18 will seemingly see the Browns persevering with to take care of the aftermath of Christine’s separation from Kody and her subsequent transfer to Utah.

Christine and Kody had been “spiritually” — however not legally — married for greater than 25 years earlier than they introduced by way of Instagram in November 2021 that they had been separating. Christine was his third spouse.

Season 17 largely centered on their cut up and the influence Christine’s transfer from Flagstaff, Arizona, to Utah would have on the household. However one other storyline centered on the influence Kody’s strict COVID-19 security guidelines had on his “non secular” marriage to his second spouse, Janelle. Kody and Janelle introduced their separation on the season 17 tell-all particular after about 28 years collectively.

Then, in January, Kody and his first spouse, Meri, introduced the top of their “non secular” marriage after greater than 30 years collectively. They legally divorced in 2014 so Kody might legally marry his fourth spouse, Robyn, and legally undertake her three kids from one other marriage. Meri and Kody’s romantic relationship first grew to become estranged in 2015, when Meri was concerned in a catfishing scandal.

Although three of Kody’s 4 marriages look like over, the TLC community president and Christine each mentioned that the Brown household’s story was removed from over. Christine mentioned she nonetheless known as Janelle her “sister spouse.”

“I believe what folks may suppose continues to be extra fascinating is how does the household truly work after any individual leaves? How can we handle the divorce with nonetheless having sister wives?” she continued. “So many individuals get divorced and work on their relationships with their exes and discover ways to care for youngsters collectively.”

“We’re all nonetheless a household,” Christine mentioned. “Hopefully it simply will get much less awkward.”