Meri Brown isn’t giving up her final title anytime quickly, though her marriage to Kody Brown is formally over each “legally and spiritually.”
“I’ve had the dialog many occasions with my finest pal and another folks too,” Meri, 54, shared on the “I Do, Half 2” podcast launched Friday, September 12. “Proper now, I’m not going to.”
The longtime actuality star defined that she’s had the final title “Brown” for 35 years and doesn’t wish to revert to her maiden title.
“I solely had my different title — my dad’s title — for 19 years,” she mentioned. “Additionally there’s a whole lot of R’s in it, and it’s actually exhausting to say. Brown is a hell of quite a bit simpler.” Meri clarified that her maiden title, Barber, can be “actually exhausting to say” if she went again to it.
Meri and Kody, 56, have been married in April 1990. Though they legally divorced in 2014, they remained spiritually married so Kody may “legally restructure” his household. Kody later married Robyn Brown to undertake her kids from a earlier marriage. He was additionally spiritually married to Janelle and Christine Brown, although each of these relationships have since ended.
“Me and considered one of my sisters, we joke about it on a regular basis, as a result of she’s additionally divorced,” Meri added. “We’re like, ‘Love you, dad. However we’re not going to return to the maiden title.’”
Meri additionally opened up about her relationship life, revealing that she isn’t in a severe relationship proper now.
“My present standing is I’m not relationship anyone completely,” she mentioned. “I do date after I discover anyone that matches my vitality.”
The TLC star emphasised that she’s selective about who she permits into her life.
“It’s a privilege to be in my world and never simply anyone will get to be,” she defined. “Plus, I’m quite a bit. I’m a enterprise proprietor. I journey quite a bit. I’m constructing companies and doing all this stuff. Can they deal with that?”
She continued, “Some males simply can’t. They want you there on a regular basis. They wish to textual content you on a regular basis, and I don’t want that.”
Regardless of being single, Meri nonetheless believes to find somebody particular.
“I don’t essentially imagine there’s just one individual, and the place on this planet am I going to seek out him?” she mentioned. “However I do imagine there’s anyone that I can discover, that our values align, our morals align, our energies align, our laughter aligns and we wish to spend the remainder of our lives collectively.”
