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Life could have taken a dramatically different turn for Sister Wives star Mykelti Brown and her husband, Tony Padron.
In a recent appearance on the Growing Up in Polygamy podcast, Mykelti, the 29-year-old daughter of former couple Kody Brown and Christine Brown Woolley, revealed her past interest in following a polygamous lifestyle similar to her parents’ experience.
Mykelti shared that before meeting Padron, she had already identified a family she was interested in joining as a plural wife. “I had my polygamist family picked out,” she confessed.
However, she never took the step of approaching them and instead went on to marry Padron in 2016. Despite this, she initially held onto the idea of entering a plural marriage.
Reflecting on the early years of their marriage, she admitted, “I wasn’t strictly opposed to polygamy. I thought, ‘We could join. We could do polygamy.'”
When Mykelti presented the idea to Padron, she had women in mind as candidates for his second wife. “She was like, ‘Do you want Girl A or B? These are the only [choices] you get though. These are the ones I like,’” he said.
“I didn’t want the religion of it. I wanted the bond of the sister wife,” explained Mykelti. “…I saw a lot of the downsides, too, so that’s why we chose not to do polygamy.”
Padron then clarified that he was the one who put a stop to the polygamy conversation. “By the way, I said no,” he said. “I just thought it was wild. Back then, she was a lot more hopeful and rosy about [it]. She did try to paint it like, ‘Oh it’s so cool.’”
Reflecting on their decision to remain monogamous, the mother of three has no regrets. “We would not have been a successful polygamous family,” she said. “We would have been divorced already.”