by Claudine Zap Forget " Real Housewives ." Those women have it easy compared to four wives and their sixteen children " married to one man " in a new reality show, " Sister Wives ." Think of the show as the real-life version of the HBO drama " Big Love ," a show about a polygamous family with three wives, starring Chloë Sevigny and Bill Paxton . Big jealousy and dramas ensue. "Sister Wives" is about one man's polygymous family with four wives.