And, of course, those of their children.
Shehad 12 siblingstotal at the time, but she’s been joined by a few more since then.
Kody lateradded a fourth wifeto the family,Robyn, and adopted her three children from a previous relationship.
Having that many siblings to wrangle definitely caused some stressful moments during Maddie Brown’s wedding.
“Family, you are more than welcome to be here.
“I don’t care about your input right now.”
“I might advise it for some of them, might not for others.
I believe in my marriage system but I don’t believe that it’s for everybody.”
So that’s where she is and she’s very vocal about it.”
“We are making plans for a wonderful outdoor wedding, hopefully in the country,” she toldPeople.
“He said to come look over here.
So I walked with him to the edge.
She noted, “I started kissing him and saying, ‘Yes, yes!'”
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He’s very strong and very powerful and I don’t think I could do that.”
Kody Brown asked Brush in the ceremony.
She responded, “With all my heart, I do.”
“I’m pretty excited,” the newlywed bride toldUs Weeklyshortly after the ceremony.
“It doesn’t feel real.”
In May 2017 less than a year after their wedding they welcomed son Axel.
“We’re looking forward to having a family.
Axel’s arrival, however, was not an easy one.
Clearly, Maddie Brown must have an all too-real understanding ofwhat happens to your body when you give birth.
“It was 72 hours of labor and 12 hours of hard labor.
It was interesting because we were all there together.
Everybody was kind of cheering her on.
I think honestly she was drawing strength somehow from all of us being there.”
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“People love Maddie because she is so down-to-earth and Caleb because he is such an outdoorsman.
They make the perfect couple.”
“I am really excited,” Maddie Brown, then 23, toldPeople.
“This pregnancy feels less real for some reason, but I am still over the moon!
I have no idea what I think it is.
I’ll just be happy with a healthy baby.”
She also revealed how she expected son Axel to respond to the arrival of a sibling.
“I think he’ll be a little jealous at first,” the reality TV star divulged.
“Our world revolves around him right now and that’s changing just a touch.”
I think once he warms up he will be really happy to have another sibling.”
Maddie Brown later shared the first photo of her newborn daughter, Evangalynn Kodi Brush, onInstagram.
She noted her child was “born right on time and just right on 8/20.”
After more than two hours, the doctor broke the news.
Maddie Brown revealed her daughter was missing a thumb and a toe.
Additionally, one leg was missing a fibula (a.k.a.
the calf bone), while her tibia (shinbone) was bowed.
Two of the newborn’s fingers were also fused together.
“We were shocked.
“We got her diagnosis about 24 hours after she was born,” she toldPeople.
Did I drink too much soda pop?'
And I’m feeling guilty and freaking out [that] there’s something wrong with my daughter.”
We want Evie to always feel pride in who she is, and all that God gave her!"
“I keep getting on to post this, then get distracted reading all of your kind words!”
she wrote ina subsequent Instagram post.
“Over the past 36 hours we have been flooded with love, support, and kindness!
I have had people reach out from foundations I didn’t even know existed.
We have been educated on sooo much!
We have learned that we are so not alone in this!”
She continued, “Never in a million years would I have guessed it would go this way.
I was so worried and now I know it was not needed.
I would say unnecessary, but I am a mom and unnecessary worrying is second nature.”
Maddie Brown concluded that she spent the day with “happy tears” and feeling “relief.”
She added, “THANK YOU!
With all of my being!”
We as moms have enough guilt."
They’re acting like we’re leaving them, and we’re the ones that are taking Axel.
I’m going to do what’s best for my family," she continued.
She noted that she would be shocked if Flagstaff was their forever home.
I can’t do that again."
“Curious what made you guys move to NC?”
one fan asked in a comment (viaInTouch).
TheSister Wivesstar offered a straightforward answer: “My husband got a job out here.”
