Kody Brown Channels "Masculinity" to Tackle Special Forces Challenges

As Kody Brown's journey on the reality competition show Special Forces: World's Toughest Test continues, the 57-year-old Sister Wives star is determined to step up for his team by channeling his "masculinity." Brown admits he does not consider himself a great leader, but believes that "good quality manhood, masculinity, is taking responsibility for the job that needs to be done and doing it."

This is not the first time Brown has shared his thoughts on what makes a good man and how those beliefs impact his approach to life. In the season 4 premiere of Special Forces, he explained that his priority on the show was to feel respected, saying, "I'm gonna say this at the risk of sounding sexist, but I think men want to be respected and women want to be loved. I don't care if you love me. I care if you respect me."

The opportunity to join Special Forces came at the perfect time for Brown, as he has recently gone through the end of his plural marriages with his exes Christine, Janelle, and Meri. He remains married to his fourth wife, Robyn. Brown says the experience with Special Forces was "life-affirming" in the sense that he "got so much out of it, almost like a pivot away from my life, my real life," which has "really become an experience of criticism and backbiting."