‘Sister Wives’ Star Meri Brown Clarifies Sexuality Amid Rumors She’s Dating Women: ‘I am Straight’

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Stating her truth. Sister Wives star Meri Brown addressed rumors regarding her sexuality in a recent Instagram Live video.While answering fan questions during the livestream, the TLC personality, 52, took the opportunity to set the record straight on speculation about her love life, specifically, who she’s romantically interested in.“I am straight,” she said in the clip shared on Saturday, February 25.Her friend Jenn Sullivan, who joined Meri on the livestream, brought up one rumor she’d heard about her, sharing, “I recently had someone tell me that they read an article that you and I are together.”Meri went on the explain how living in the public eye lends itself to rumors like those. “Listen, it does not matter who I take a picture with and post it,” the reality star — who shares child Leon with ex-husband Kody Brown — stated. “I’m either dating this guy or dating this girl, because people can’t seem to think that I can be friends — completely platonic friends — with females or males.

It doesn’t matter.”After another fan asked why she felt the need to bring the topic up, she said, “It’s a common topic of conversation on whether or not I’m going to come out or not.

And I’m coming out as being straight, so there you go.”As a mother to a transgender child, Meri wrapped up the discussion by clarifying that being a part of the LGBTQ+ community is “not a bad thing to be,” adding, “Whatever you want to be is whoever you are.

It’s not a big deal. I just know what I like.”A few months before Meri officially split from Kody in December 2022, their child Leon came out as transgender. “Someone recently told me that I didn’t have to have all of my s–t figured out in order for me to share myself with the world,” the 26-year-old