Meri Brown. Courtesy Meri Brown/Instagram
Stating her reality. Sister Wives star Meri Brown addressed rumors concerning her sexuality in a current Instagram Dwell video.
Whereas answering fan questions in the course of the livestream, the TLC persona, 52, took the chance to set the document straight on hypothesis about her love life, particularly, who she’s romantically concerned with.
“I’m straight,” she stated within the clip shared on Saturday, February 25.
Her buddy Jenn Sullivan, who joined Meri on the livestream, introduced up one rumor she’d heard about her, sharing, “I lately had somebody inform me that they learn an article that you just and I are collectively.”
Meri Brown. Courtesy Meri Brown/Instagram
Meri went on the clarify how residing within the public eye lends itself to rumors like these. “Hear, it doesn’t matter who I take an image with and put up it,” the fact star — who shares baby Leon with ex-husband Kody Brown — acknowledged. “I’m both courting this man or courting this lady, as a result of individuals can’t appear to assume that I could be associates — utterly platonic associates — with females or males. It doesn’t matter.”
After one other fan requested why she felt the necessity to deliver the subject up, she stated, “It’s a typical matter of dialog on whether or not or not I’m going to come back out or not. And I’m popping out as being straight, so there you go.”
As a mom to a transgender baby, Meri wrapped up the dialogue by clarifying that being part of the LGBTQ+ group is “not a foul factor to be,” including, “No matter you wish to be is whoever you might be. It’s not a giant deal. I simply know what I like.”
A couple of months earlier than Meri formally cut up from Kody in December 2022, their baby Leon got here out as transgender. “Somebody lately informed me that I didn’t should have all of my s–t discovered to ensure that me to share myself with the world,” the 26-year-old captioned a June 2022 Instagram put up. “So right here’s me, undoubtedly not having virtually any of my s–t discovered, to let that I’m trans. My title is Leon or Leo (i like each) and my pronouns are they/them.”
On the time, Meri confirmed her help by sharing the put up on her Instagram Story, captioning it, “You’re my sunshine.”
In a February YouTube video, Leon’s half-sister, Gwendlyn Brown, revealed that Leon had discovered “a safer group for themselves” outdoors of their household. Because the 21-year-old — who’s one in every of six youngsters Kody shares with one other of his ex-wives, Christine Brown — defined within the video, “Leon has been, since childhood, form of the odd one out within the household as a result of that they had no siblings from their mother to actually get together with.”
She continued: “They only most likely felt just like the odd one out. And likewise with Leon being transgender and queer generally, and being in a household that predominantly practices a Mormon fundamentalist religion. Mormonism hasn’t actually historically been form to queer individuals, particularly with a household that’s fairly a bit conservative and partially in opposition to transsexuality generally.”
As of February, Kody stays married to his fourth spouse, Robyn Brown. Christine and Kody’s fellow ex-wife, Janelle Brown, additionally confirmed their respective splits in late 2022.
