Overview

• Published Sept. 2 by Gallery Books, Sister Wife also explains long-simmering family rifts, including Christine’s break with Meri after a dispute over 10 cents.
• Christine discloses a brief dependence on prescribed oxycodone after 2016 ACL and meniscus surgery, saying she used it for about a month and felt unwell for roughly six months while keeping the struggle off camera.
• She recounts longstanding intimacy problems with Kody, writing that she cried during sex on their wedding night and did not have her first orgasm until two years into the marriage.
• The book alleges patterns of control, including “love bombing” and withholding attention, and describes Kody’s absence during key health crises involving their children.
• Christine says she did not give Kody advance notice about the memoir’s contents, and the release precedes Sister Wives season 20 on Sept. 28.