Mykelti Brown may be in a monogamous partnership with her husband Tony Padron, but that doesn’t mean polygamy has never entered her mind.

On a recent episode of the Growing Up in Polygamy podcast, the Sister Wives star, 29, opened up about previously wanting to live plural marriage like her parents, Kody Brown and Christine Brown Woolley, did before they split.

Before she married Padron, 31, in 2016, Mykelti had her eye on a family she was interested in joining as a wife. “I had my polygamist family picked out,” she said, explaining that in their culture, it is common for a woman to approach an existing couple. “I never actually approached them,” she explained later.

And after she and Padron said “I do,” she still “wasn’t strictly opposed to polygamy” for several years, she said. “I was like, ‘We could join. We could do polygamy.’”

When Mykelti presented the idea to Padron, she had women in mind as candidates for his second wife. “She was like, ‘Do you want Girl A or B? These are the only [choices] you get though. These are the ones I like,’” explained the competitive chess player.

“I wanted the bond of the sister wife,” said Mykelti, noting that they ultimately chose not to pursue polygamy because “I saw a lot of the downsides, too.”

However, Padron pushed back on her claim, saying that he was the one who put a stop to the polygamy conversation. “By the way, I said no,” he said. “I just thought it was wild. Back then, she was a lot more hopeful and rosy about [it]. She did try to paint it like, ‘Oh it’s so cool.’”

Reflecting on their decision to remain monogamous, the mother of three has no regrets. “We would not have been a successful polygamous family,” she said. “We would have been divorced already.”