Out of all the Alaskan Bush People siblings, Amora Brown, often called Snowbird,
is arguably the most reserved. She doesn't appear to have a public presence on social media, and her
absence has left fans wanting to know more about her life. Here's the truth about Snowbird Brown.
Although Snowbird Brown might not have public social media profiles,
she continues to star on Discovery's Alaskan Bush People. Birdy has appeared in all 12 seasons,
and it doesn't look like she intends to leave anytime soon.
As the show progressed, Bird became known for speaking her mind and holding her ground on
important topics. Case in point: In Season 11, the Washington resident confronted her brother,
Gabe Brown, about killing their roosters for food, saying in a 2019 episode,
"But I raised them, you know? They come to me for food."
"And I can't kill something that I raised and that loves me."
When Gabe defended slaughtering the roosters, Birdy instructed her brother to, quote, "look
at all the faces you want to kill", though this doesn’t appear to have changed her brother’s mind.
When she's not butting heads with her brothers, Snowbird is busy raising her
flock of beloved cats. And as Soap Dirt noted in December 2019,
the reality star had amassed around 20 cats since the family's move to Washington.
Fans might remember when in April 2017, matriarch Ami Brown was diagnosed with
Stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer. The diagnosis was devastating for the Brown family,
and each sibling coped with the bad news in their own way. As for Snowbird,
she took on a supportive role for the clan, as Matt Brown praised her for during a heartfelt
discussion featured on Alaskan Bush People. When Matt noted to Bird how
her siblings look up to her because she's the oldest girl in the family, she replied,
"It puts a lot of stress on me to always try and be the confident one, the 'it will be OK.'
“Because it's like, I have emotions too. I just try and hide them."
In awe of his sister's strength, Matt said,
"My sister’s tough. She's tougher than any of us brothers. She's always the
one who looks at me and, she's like, 'No, Matt we'll make this work. Matt,
we'll do this.' Bird inspires. Especially in this time with mom, we're all going to kind of rely on
Birdy to do what she does. You know, she's mini-mom. And she takes care of everybody."
Not only is Snowbird busy supporting
her large family, but she's also preoccupied with being a godmother to Noah Brown's son,
Elijah, who was born in February 2019. As Snowbird described in an episode,
she was made godmother amid a, quote, "rough patch" with Noah and his wife, Rhain Alicia.
She said,
"I think Noah, you know, naming me Eli's godmother was kind of his way of wanting to fix things.”
"And I want Noah and Alicia to know that I'm taking it serious."
Snowbird got a chance to show off her godmother skills when babysitting Eli for the first time.
Noah said on the show,
"This would be the first time that Rhain and I have just let Birdy take care of Eli by herself.
It's kind of a crucial moment. Eli needs to grow up with Birdy being a stable thing in his life."
"That way if something does happen to Rhain and I, then
she's right there and can just step into the position."
In September 2020, the official Facebook page for Alaskan Bush People uploaded a preview of
an upcoming episode. In the clip, Snowbird, who is celebrating catching her, quote,
"first pack rat," decides to make a "fancy dinner" for her cats that includes, quote:
"chicken stuffed with some fish and chicken feet" and a "cat food
and milk gravy" that would serve as a dipping sauce for the dead rat. Yum.
She said of the meal,
"I wanna celebrate with my cats, so I want to do something special with
them and for them. I decided to just go all out for the kitties. [...] Like us,
they've gone through so much. They just deserve a really good meal."
Snowbird's baby sister, Rain Brown,
shared her thoughts on the celebratory dinner Snowbird made for her cats, saying,
"Bird needs something else to occupy her time. She is definitely a lonely cat lady,
and I think that maybe if she had a boyfriend, it would help."
2020 was hard on the cast of Alaskan Bush People. Not only were they facing a global pandemic
and quarantine, but they also had to evacuate after a raging wildfire destroyed their home.
Speaking in an October 2020 interview with Pop Culture, Snowbird said,
"It's definitely been crazy — a lot has happened. […] We are currently still evacuated."
She added that it was, quote, "pretty much up in the air" if they could ever return home.
Snowbird also credited her parents for keeping
the family together during those troubling times, saying,
"I feel like they're always the anchors. They're always assuring us that things are going to be OK,
even when we want to assure them things are OK."
The tight-knit Brown family suffered a major loss when
Billy Brown unexpectedly died in February 2021.
Noah Brown and Bear Brown posted the same message on Instagram, saying,
"We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved patriarch Billy Brown
passed away last night after suffering from a seizure. He was our best friend — a
wonderful and loving dad, granddad and husband and he will be dearly missed."
Snowbird has yet to comment publicly about her father's death.
On February 28, 2021, the Discovery Channel aired The Legacy of Billy Brown,
a special consisting of, quote, "never-before seen footage and interviews [in which] Billy speaks to
the bush legacy he was driven to establish, fueled by faith and his deep adoration for his family."
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