Meri Brown.Photo:Meri Brown/Instagram
Meri Brown/Instagram
Meri Brownis setting the record straight on her commitment to her marriage to former husbandKody Brown.
TheSister Wivesstar, 52, exclusively tells PEOPLE why choosing tofight for her marriageto Kody, 54, was a way to dispel falsehoods about her character and her self-confidence.
“There’s a lot of misconceptions about me, personally, because people are always telling me, ‘You don’t know what you’re worth. You have no value.’ Just really derogatory [things] about me,” she says, explaining how her willingness to stay in the plural marriage has caused some fans to question her self-esteem. “And it’s like, no, actually, I know what I’m worth, and I know what my value is, and I know what my values are.”
Kody Brown and Meri Brown.Ida Mae Astute/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images
“This is why I worked to try to save my marriage for so long. A lot of people look at it as because I waited so long, it means I have no confidence,” she continues.
Contrary to what others may think, Meri says her “confidence” is what allowed her to take her time in figuring out her marriage.
“I think that’s a huge, huge misconception,” she adds. “I 100% gave it my all. I did everything in my power that I could do. And if I would’ve walked away any sooner, there would’ve always been a question in my mind of, ‘Did I do everything that I can do?’”
Kody Brown and Meri Brown.Meri Brown/Instagram
Now that Meri is “very confident” that she’s done “everything” she could to the best of her ability, the TLC star says she’s “very at peace with the timing of it and how it all played out.”
In January, Meri and Kody addressed their split publiclyin a statementvia Meri’s Instagram. In it, the bed and breakfast owner noted she had “no animosity toward Kody.”
On Sunday’s episode of the hit reality show, Meri reminisced about theearly days of her marriageto the Brown family patriarch and the “disappointing” ways they’ve grown apart.
“I know the person that he was when we got married. I know that the couple that we were,” she said asmoments from their 1990 weddingflashed on screen.
Though she and Kody have grown apart, Meri admitted that she’s “proud of myself” and the “person that I am.”
She also acknowledged, “It’s just sad to me that he couldn’t see that there is value to, you know, three decades of history.”
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source: people.com
