Janelle Brown.
Janelle Brownis single and proud to say it.
Despite confirming in December 2022 that she and exKody Brownhadseparatedafter a 29-year spiritual marriage, theSister Wivesstar doesn’t consider herself “divorced.”
“Because we never were legally married, I can’t really say I’m divorced,” Janelle, 54, explained to PEOPLE during a wide-ranging conversation aboutwhere her family standsafter adomino effecttoppled three of Kody’s marriages in 14 months.
She continued, “I just say ‘I’m no longer with’ [him] when I explain it to outside people, I’m like, ‘I’m no longer with my partner.'”
Janelle Brown and Kody Brown.Janelle Brown/Instagram; Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic
Janelle says that she’s always told people that “my partner and I split up” when explaining her relationship status and prefers the term “single.”
“I don’t know,” she continues. “It’s nebulous for me at this point. It depends on who I’m talking to really. I guess I just consider myself single, I don’t consider myself divorced or separated or whatever. I just think I’m single.”
On the other hand, Janelle’s fellow former sister wifeChristine Browntold PEOPLE during the conversation — which took place prior to her OctoberweddingtoDavid Woolley— that she loved saying she was “straight-up divorced.”
She shared, “I like things clear-cut. I don’t like gray lines. I can tell you the date I was divorced.”
Kody Brown and Christine Brown.Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic
Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic
Christine, 51, recalled that even though she “decided” to call herself a divorcée, Kody didn’t realize that she “considered us divorced” until aftershe left himin November 2021.
“I don’t think he was very happy about it,” she says of her ex-husband, 55. “But if we were in our church, there’s certain rules we’d have to follow and everything like that. But we’re not in that church, we haven’t been in that church for years.”
Christine Brown and David Woolley.Christine Brown/Instagram
Christine Brown/Instagram
Christine and her husband David, 59,tied the knotin front of family and friends in Moab, Utah, on Oct. 7 after nearly a year of dating.
On the day of her nuptials, the reality star told PEOPLE that the festivities were a dream come true.
“It’s a fairy tale,” she gushed. “It’s everything I never thought I would have. I get to walk down the aisle to David, him just looking at me the way that he does, it’s a dream come true.”
“David is just home," she explained. “I feel like wherever we are together, we just create this amazing unity together. We’re a solid unit, and whatever goes on around us just doesn’t even matter. Being married together just solidifies us together.”
According to David, 59: “I’m really very lucky, andvery happy that someone let her go, because she’s a unicorn.”
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source: people.com
