On Sister Wives season 17, an episode featured information about Mykelti Padron's home birth, and many fans felt that Robyn Brown's actions showed her faking love for Mykelti. Viewers were shocked by the strong bond between Robyn and Mykelti, who is Christine Brown's daughter. Robyn has been called out in the past for being manipulative and fake, and Kody Brown's favorite wife is now getting dragged, due to how she treats Mykelti.
Sister Wives season 17 is far behind the real-life events of the plural family, as the show followed Mykelti going into labor this season, when her daughter Avalon Padron is already more than a year old. Mykelti also revealed that she is having twin boys, who are due in December. As well, the season has shown the fallout from Christine ending her marriage to Kody, and how it has affected the rest of the large family. Christine and Janelle Brown still have a close relationship, but Mykelti's strong ties to Robyn were considered shocking by many fans.
While it was never mentioned in any Sister Wives season, Mykelti actually spent a few months living with Robyn, which strengthened their close bond. She was a nanny for Robyn's kids, before Robyn and Kody got married. Many fans believe that Robyn has used people in the past, and think that she manipulated Mykelti into believing that they had a great connection, because the younger woman was helping her. Sister Wives fans gave Christine credit for sharing the moment with Robyn, despite their troubled past, and putting aside their differences, for Mykelti's sake.
Sister Wives' Robyn Gets Invited To Mykelti's Home Birth
While Kody was not invited, Mykelti asked Robyn to attend her home birth, along with her mom, Christine. Robyn did not come in person, and instead chose a Zoom meeting to show her . Sister Wives fans did not know what to make of this unexpectedly close relationship between Robyn and Mykelti, which they really didn't see coming. U/drnowistheman said, "I just don't believe that Robyn has this devotion to Mykelti," and viewers felt that if one of her own kids were in labor, she would have been there. To them, that made her devotion to the younger female seem inauthentic. However, other fans gave Robyn props for connecting with Mykelti, as /u/OK_List_9649 said, "Christine, Robyn and mykelti are bonded due to Robyn's love and treatment of mykelti."
Robyn has been called manipulative; she's been accused of playing the victim card, which is leading fans to question how sincere she is. Despite Robyn saying on the Sister Wives episode that she thought of Mykelti as her child, she did not show up like Christine did. Some fans wondered if she was exaggerating her relationship with Christine and Kody's daughter, just for the sake of the show. While Robyn has done some questionable things on the series in the past, fans are defending her relationship with Mykelti, especially after the latter reality celeb gushed about her on Instagram.
Sources: u/drnowistheman/Reddit, u/OK_List_9649/Reddit