Sister Wiv' Dghter, Mariah, Shocks Parents by Comg Out: 'I'm Gay'

Contents:

• 'SISTER WIV' ' DGHTER, MARIAH, SHOCKS PARENTS BY COMG OUT: 'I'M GAY'
• WHERE IS MARIAH BROWN NOW? NEW DETAILS ON THE GAY 'SISTER WIV' DGHTER AND WHAT SHE'S UP TO TODAY
• 'SISTER WIV' ' MERI RAISED 'DIFFERENT CULTURE' THAN WHAT SHE 'TRIED TO CREATE' FOR GAY DGHTER

'SISTER WIV' ' DGHTER, MARIAH, SHOCKS PARENTS BY COMG OUT: 'I'M GAY'

"She teas me about havg celebry csh on women and (suggts) that I'm also partially gay.

“I’m gay, ” she announced to her shocked fay. While Fundamentalist Mormonism, which the Browns closely align their fah to, do not approve of homosexualy, the fay told HuffPost Live a 2013 terview that everyone should be able “stcture” their fay “ any way they want, ” whether they are gay or straight.

WHERE IS MARIAH BROWN NOW? NEW DETAILS ON THE GAY 'SISTER WIV' DGHTER AND WHAT SHE'S UP TO TODAY

She is also the only Brown child to announce that she is gay. Brown told her fay she was gay a much-promoted episo of the show, Brown asked all the adults her fay to meet wh her at the same time.

Brown me right out and said, "I'm gay. She didn't have a problem wh homosexualy; she was jt sad that her dghter hadn't e to her first and that the life she had always imaged was gog to be different.

'SISTER WIV' ' MERI RAISED 'DIFFERENT CULTURE' THAN WHAT SHE 'TRIED TO CREATE' FOR GAY DGHTER

Brown did acknowledge the plexy of beg LGBTQ+ a relign that had sent her negative msag about beg gay. While her parents hadn't been overtly homophobic, she relled hearg bad thgs about gay people om church lears and as a rult, she always feared her own sexualy. It was when she went to llege and got to know gay people that she started to acknowledge her feelgs and started to accept who she said an terview, "I was stg next to one of my iends and we were talkg about her girliend and I realized that this iend of me is gay.

Speakg wh PEOPLE 2017, Mariah opened up about the moment she revealed to her fay that she was gay.