“My childhood was chaotic in ways I’ve spent my entire adult life making sense of and choosing to build something completely different from,” she wrote in a June 29 Instagram post
Credit: Madison Brush Instagram
NEED TO KNOW
- Sister Wives‘ Madison Brush opened up about her ‘chaotic’ childhood growing up in the Brown family
- “My childhood was chaotic in ways I’ve spent my entire adult life making sense of and choosing to build something completely different from,” she wrote in a June 29 Instagram post
- Brush has previously been candid about her estrangement from father Kody Brown
Sister Wives' Madison Brush is getting candid about her childhood.
On Monday, June 29, the former reality star, 30, opened up about growing up in the Sister Wives family as the daughter of Kody Brown and his ex-wife Janelle Brown in an Instagram post.
“I didn't grow up knowing what peace felt like,” Brush wrote in her caption. “At least not in the nervous system sense. Not even in the ‘exhale at the end of the day' sense.”
“My childhood was chaotic in ways I've spent my entire adult life making sense of and choosing to build something completely different from,” she wrote. “That's the short version. Maybe one day, I'll tell the long one.”
Credit: Janelle Brown/Instagram
Brush continued, “What I know is this: I got married young, had my first son at 21, moved across the country at 23 to find my footing, and somewhere in the middle of all of it…. the parenting books I consumed, the hard decisions I made, the life my husband and I quietly built together… I found something I didn't grow up with.”
“Peace. Not the absence of chaos, but with the presence of it and the ability to choose calm anyway,” she wrote.
Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Brush went on to give an update on her life. She homeschools her four children and has been living holistically for 15 years. Brush is building a homestead called Taeda Farms with her husband, Caleb Brush, and mom Janelle, 57.
“I'm a halfway homesteader. A deeply intentional mom. A woman who is still figuring out what peace looks like in practice and thinks that process is worth talking about out loud,” she wrote. “This page is going to be real food, intentional motherhood, what we're building at Taeda, a marriage worth celebrating, and the slower, simpler life I'm choosing for my family on purpose.”
“It's not going to be perfect, and it is not going to be a performance. It is going to be honest,” she added.
Credit: Shutterstock
Sister Wives premiered on TLC in 2010 and followed the lives of the Brown family — Kody, his four wives, Robyn, Janelle, Christine and Meri, and their children. The latter three have left Kody, and Robyn is the only wife remaining.
The fracture of the Brown family has played out in previous seasons of Sister Wives, and Brush has been open about her estrangement from her father Kody.
In a December 2025 episode of the TLC series, Brush shared she would be open to reconciling with her dad.
“I think there could be forgiveness,” Brush said. “I am open to reconciliation and forgiveness and closure, but if he ever wanted to be let back into our lives, there would need to be a pattern of consistency.”
Kody had previously shared on an episode prior that he was open to reconciling with his estranged kids.
"My children will always be my children and the door will always be open to them," he said at the time. "They've got to come through that door. I'm going to be holding a hand out for that, but I'm going to be holding this hand that's next to me, and I won't let go of that hand."
Read the full article here
