‘Sister Wives’: How Kody Brown and Robyn’s Ex-Husband David Preston Jessop Are Related – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Before the Sister Wives star, Robyn Brown married Kody Brown, she was married to David Preston Jessop. Interestingly, Kody Brown and David Preston Jessop are related. Heres how Robyns current husband and ex-husbands family trees are intertwined.

Robyn and her ex-husband, David Jessop, married in 1999 when she was 21-years-old. They have three children together Dayton Brown, Aurora Brown, and Breanna Brown. Robyn and David Jessop divorced after 11 years of marriage in 2009.

In the Brown familys memoir, Becoming Sister Wives- The Story of an Unconventional Marriage, Robyn revealed why they divorced. Robyn wrote:

I tried my hardest to make the marriage work, both for our own sake and for the sake of the three children my ex-husband and I had together. But what started off as unstable disintegrated into something destructive. After seven and a half years of marriage, we separated. A year and a half later, we were divorced.

Both my marriage and its collapse were incredibly difficult for me. I suffered a lot of pain and hardship. I had been badly mistreated and misled by my ex-husband. While I knew that he was the source of a lot of my grief, part of me still believed that I was a failure because I hadnt been able to make my relationship work.

After her divorce in 2009, she met Kody at a church dance, and they began courting. On May 22, 2010, Kody and Robyn married spiritually. Then, Meri Brown divorced Kody so that he could legally marry Robyn with the purpose of adopting her children. Robyn and Kody legally married on Dec 11, 2014.

Many Sister Wives fans have pointed out how similar David Jessop and Kody Brown look (via Reddit). According toAshleys Reality Roundup, Kody and David are actually third cousins. Technically, Kody is blood-related to his adopted children from Robyns marriage to David.

As members of a small sect of TheFundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(FLDS Church) called the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) that promotes polygamy. Its no wonder that theyre related.

Not only is David related to Kody, but hes also related to Kodys wives, Meri Brown and Christine Brown. According to the site, David is Christines first cousin. And Meri is related to David through his father, Louis Jessops other wives.

Its no secret that the fundamentalist Mormons have some tangled family trees. Even the Brown familys trees have crossed over in many strange ways.

Sister Wives Season 16 One on One reunion episode airs Sunday, Jan 30 on TLC and discovery+.

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