Leaving it all out. sister wives star janelle brown opened up about life lessons she “wished” she’d known “before” amid her December 2022 split from Kody Brown.
“It’s okay to be yourself. Be kind and generous, but protect your boundaries,” Janelle, 53, shared via Instagram Reel on Wednesday, April 12. “Have personal boundaries and don’t apologize for your boundaries.”
The mother-of-six concluded: “You get out of life what you think you deserve,” despite noting that it can be “difficult to notice.”
Janelle’s fiery comments come nearly four months later In contact exclusively confirmed his separation from the polygamous patriarch after nearly 30 years of marriage.
“Janelle is a strong and independent woman and she realized that she can do it on her own,” a source said. In contact in December 2022, adding that the sister wives star “got over it”.
While Kody and Janelle had been spiritually married since 1993, the cracks in their marriage only amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic when the father of 18 set out a list of strict rules for the family to abide by, which it caused great tension between Kody and her children. Garrison and Gabriel.

In addition to their two children, Kody and Janelle share four other children: Logan, Maddie, Hunter, and Savanah. Before their split in February 2022, Janelle admitted that Kody had a strained relationship with “[several] of [his] children”, during part 2 of the sister wives tell everyone.
Kody previously spoke about the tension with her two children, saying: “I make rules, [they] respect them.”
“I get that these two needed their social lives,” added the Wyoming native. “I totally get it. But in this case, COVID is different. He changed everything for everyone, and they want everything to be the same.
The dynamics only continued to decline in the following months, with one source saying us weekly in January 2022 that a split between Janelle and Kody was inevitable, further reinforced by christina brownNovember 2021 to leave the marriage.
Despite Kody and Janelle’s split, the Plexis ambassador is adjusting well to her new life and recently invited her kids over for an Easter holiday dinner.