‘Sister Wives’ star Kody Brown explains why he still doesn't desire to be intimate with his first wife Meri

“Sister Wives,” a reality TV series on TLC, aims to show how Kody Brown and his family navigate life in a world that seems to shun their lifestyle.

In 2015, Meri revealed that she’d been catfished after entering into an online relationship with someone she thought was a man, People magazine reported. However, the person turned out to be a female admirer. Brown and Meri entered therapy to cope with the emotional fallout, but the patriarch later said that he no longer desired to be intimate with her. Brown and his four wives share a combined 18 children. "About five years ago, Meri and I were in a bad place," he explained, as quoted by the outlet. "She basically asked me to stop staying at her house and ultimately what happened is she went through an experience where she was catfished by a person pretending to be somebody else."