Sister Wives

Sister Wives
GenreReality
Created by
  • Tim Gibbons
  • Christopher Poole
StarringThe Brown family
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons19
No. of episodes209 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Timothy Gibbons
  • Bill Hayes
  • Christopher Poole
  • Kirk Streb
ProducerVince Russo
Production locations
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time42 minutes
Production companies
  • Figure 8 Films
  • Puddle Monkey Productions
  • Peacock Productions
Original release
NetworkTLC
ReleaseSeptember 26, 2010 (2010-09-26) 
present

Sister Wives is an American reality television series broadcast on TLC that premiered on September 26, 2010. The show documents the life of a polygamist family, which includes Kody Brown, his current wife Robyn (née Sullivan), and his former wives Meri (née Barber), Janelle (née Schriever), and Christine (née Allred), and their 18 children (1 by Meri, 6 each by Janelle and Christine, 5 by Robyn although 3 were between her and her ex-husband David Preston Jessop). The family began the series living in Lehi, Utah, moved to Las Vegas in 2011, and to Flagstaff, Arizona, in mid-2018.

The Browns have stated they participated in the show to make the public aware of polygamist families and to combat societal prejudices. When the show began, Kody Brown argued that his polygamist arrangement was legal because he was legally married to only one woman, while the three other marriages in the family were "spiritual unions."