Sister Wives’ Meri Brown understood that living in polygamy meant having to share her husband with other women — but she wasn’t ready for the emotional toll every new addition would bring.

“I knew that I would have [an] emotion about it when somebody did finally come into the family. And I did,” Meri, 54, recalled during the Sunday, November 9, episode of the TLC series. “I didn’t handle myself the best all the time.”

She continued, “I remember being very jealous. You know, people ask all the time, ‘Were you not jealous?’ Well, yes, I was. How can you not be jealous?”

Meri was Kody Brown’s first wife, legally marrying him in 1990. Three years later, they expanded their family with the addition of Janelle Brown, who spiritually wed Kody, 56, in 1993. Christine Brown joined the polygamist

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