Mykelti Brown and her family are heading east— and far away from her father Kody and his only remaining wife Robyn.
The Sister Wives star— who is the daughter of Kody and his former third wife Christine— announced last week on Patreon and YouTube that she and her family are moving from Utah to North Carolina for “a lot of reasons.”
“We’re moving to North Carolina!” Mykelti stated on a livestream.
“We’re gonna move out of Utah,” added Mykelti’s husband Tony Padron. “…We’re going to move to the great state of North Carolina. We haven’t really told anyone in the Internet universe.”
Tony went on to state that he and Mykelti will have to sell their home in Utah, due to the move to North Carolina being “very expensive.”
“The whole packing has started so it’s going to be a lot,” he added.
As ‘Sister Wives’ fans know, the bulk of the Brown Family “kids” live in Utah or around Flagstaff, Arizona (where Kody and Robyn and their kids reside). However, Maddie Brown, along with her husband Caleb Brush and their three kids, moved to North Carolina several years ago and own a home there.
Mykelti clarified that she and her family aren’t moving to North Carolina “specifically to be close to Maddie.”
“But it’s just, like, a really nice benefit [that] our kids are going to get some cousins around them,” Mykelti— who shares three kids with Tony— added. “So that’s exciting.”
One person who is not excited to see Mykelti & Co. go to North Carolina is Mykelti’s mom, Christine Brown.
“Let’s not talk about it!” Tony joked when a Patreon user asked how Mykelti’s mother felt about the move.
“My mom, she is happy for our adventure,” Mykelti said hesitantly. “She supports our choices because we’re doing it for us, as a family, but she’s also extremely sad that we’ll be leaving her.”
(Currently, five of Christine and Kody’s six kids live in Utah. Gwendlyn is the only one who currently lives in Arizona.)
“There’s a lot of feelings there,” Mykelti continued. “So we’re doing as much as we can to hang out with my family— my mom and [her husband] David [Wooley] and the kids on this side, and my siblings and Tony’s family. We’re trying to hang out and get in as much time as possible, because it will get a lot harder as we get further away and stuff.”
“My mom’s not taking it well, either,” Tony added.
Mykelti did not reveal how Kody and Robyn feel about their upcoming move; however, she did state that there’s no way Mr. and Mrs. Brown would ever follow them to North Carolina.
“I don’t think you could get Kody and Robyn to leave Flagstaff,” she said.
As ‘Sister Wives’ fans are aware, Mykelti is one of Kody’s only kids from his ex-wives Meri, Janelle and Christine who still has a good relationship with him and Robyn. While Mykelti didn’t specify why she is choosing to move across the country from the majority of her family, the Brown clan’s drama could play a part in it.
In November, Maddie opened up during a podcast interview about how grateful she is to live in the Tar Heel State, as it keeps her and her kids far away from the Brown Family drama happening in Utah/Arizona.
“Obviously, my family is falling apart on TV. It’s not a secret,” Maddie said on the podcast. “You can see it…so I always tell Caleb that I’m grateful because I feel like God moved us here.
“My parents, I love them, but they are all very opinionated, so it was easy to kind of get caught in the– I think minutia might be the right word— where you’re just kind of doing things that they did because they did it and that’s how you were raised,” Maddie continued. “So it was kind of really good for me to step into my own. I’m going to raise my kids the way that I want to. There still is a lot of heartache [in the family] but my kids didn’t see it.”
During the same interview, Maddie admitted that her kids don’t know Kody at all, due to the fact that he hasn’t made much of an effort to be part of his grandkids’ lives. (Maddie, did, however, give her mom Janelle and Christine shoutouts for staying so involved in the kids’ lives, despite the physical distance between them.)
Over the years, Maddie and Caleb have hosted several of Maddie’s younger siblings, allowing them to live with them for periods of time. Ysabel Brown resided in North Carolina with Maddie for several years, and Janelle recently revealed that her youngest daughter, Savanah, is staying at Maddie’s home for the summer.
