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Jinger Duggar's New Life & Raising Her Daughters successful Los Angeles
Jinger Duggar Vuolo isn't the lone 1 of the 19 Duggar siblings who decided she needed to enactment immoderate region betwixt herself and the household homestead successful Arkansas to bash beingness connected her ain terms.
But she has inserted exponentially much region than anyone else.
After kicking disconnected joined beingness successful Laredo, Texas, the 30-year-old and her hubby of astir 8 years, Jeremy Vuolo, are West Coasters these days, having moved to Los Angeles successful 2019. And portion relocating to 1 of the biggest of cities was a travel into the chartless astatine first—"leaving Laredo this July volition beryllium 1 of the hardest things we’ve ever done," they posted astatine the time—the mates person planted steadfast roots successful California.
"I emotion surviving successful Los Angeles," Jinger told E! News successful January 2023. "It's been amazing. We person an awesome assemblage astir us, truly good, coagulated friends that we emotion to bent retired with."
In fact, their unit came done implicit the summertime erstwhile they moved into a bigger location successful July, the mates successful request of much running-around country for daughters Felicity, 6, and Evangeline, 3, and their little sibling who's connected the way.
And hopefully there's plentifulness of retention abstraction for Mom.
"I emotion decluttering during moves but privation I had decluttered earlier moving this time," she reflected successful July, signaling the archetypal caller occurrence of the Jinger & Jeremy podcast successful 3 years. Her spouse, who said that having assistance from their friends astatine slightest made the process much fun, agreed that moving could beryllium "overwhelming owed to the consciousness of unsettledness and surviving retired of boxes."
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But a small nomadism—they've moved "multiple times successful the past 5 years," Jinger noted, and the latest location is their 3rd L.A.-area address—is preferable to the cue-the-sun orchestration that she experienced increasing up connected TV.
Acknowledging that her sheltered puerility and adolescence meant she didn't spot galore fashionable movies arsenic a kid, watching The Truman Show for the archetypal clip connected her honeymoon successful 2016 was a existent eye-opener for Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar's sixth-born child.
"I looked astatine Jeremy and I was, like, 'Wow, that feels similar my beingness successful galore ways,'" Jinger told E! News successful 2023 arsenic she was releasing her memoir Becoming Free Indeed. "Not every detail—the spouse-picking portion was not right—but different than that, I felt like, man, that's so brainsick however it's truthful similar."
Her older sister Jill Dillard, 33, who married Derick Dillard in 2014, was the archetypal of the siblings to blow the whistle connected conscionable however retired of the kids' hands their information connected the long-running TLC world show 19 Kids and Counting and its spin-off Counting On really was.
Jinger, meanwhile, elaborate successful her memoir however insulated their upbringing was arsenic followers of the Institute successful Basic Life Principles, the strict fundamentalist teachings their parents adhered to that regulated everything from what the kids were taught successful homeschool to what the pistillate members of the household wore.
"On the amusement I was truthful outgoing, I had truthful overmuch personality," Jinger recalled connected her podcast successful September. "I wasn't surviving successful a quality origin that's legit who I was."
But she yet started to question...everything.
"Coming retired of that and past increasing into an big arsenic you're filming," she said, "I deliberation determination was a clip I conscionable switched to, like, Am I an extrovert? Am I much introverted? Because I deliberation I conscionable became much guarded and a antithetic personality."
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There to fig it each retired with her was Jeremy, a Pennsylvania-raised shot subordinate turned pastor whom she met portion doing ministry enactment successful Laredo. The lad of a reformed Baptist pastor, arsenic Jinger described his upbringing successful her book, Jeremy's religion initially made him a questionable prime for a beingness spouse successful her parents' eyes.
It was lone aft "five months of astir play conversations" with Jim Bob, Jinger wrote, that Jeremy was fixed the go-ahead to commencement courting Jinger successful May 2016.
She didn't request that agelong to accidental yes to a travel to the altar 3 months later. Then 3 months after that, the brace tied the knot Nov. 5, 2016, and Jinger joined Jeremy successful Laredo, wherever she continued the process of extricating herself from IBLP.
"Jeremy has been truthful benignant passim this full process of my disentangling journey," she told E!. "He's been truthful diligent with maine due to the fact that I cognize it indispensable beryllium truthful hard for him to spot these wrestlings, and determination are agelong days wherever it's conscionable emotionally taxing and hard. He has lone been determination to enactment me, to cheer maine on."
And on the way—amid day nights, becoming a mom, penning books, packing and unpacking, hunting for deals astatine Trader Joe's, the occasional movie premiere and different staples of SoCal living—Jinger got much successful interaction with who she truly was with the cameras off.
"I was ever acrophobic astir being truthful agreeable with [Jeremy], and not having my ain opinion," she said. "I wouldn't truly deliberation for myself. I would conscionable think, What's the close answer, oregon what bash I deliberation I should accidental to him close now? Like, if helium mislaid a crippled of darts I would archer him, 'Great job.' And he'd say, 'I was terrible, but you tin archer maine that, it's OK.'"
While she astatine archetypal thought she had to beryllium "this agreeable wife" successful bid to support it each together, Jinger explained to E!, "Jeremy encouraged maine to not beryllium idiosyncratic I'm not, but conscionable to beryllium myself and consciousness comfy and stock my ain opinions—and have opinions connected life."
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More of that travel informs her adjacent book, People Pleaser, which is owed retired successful January 2025, but successful the meantime the Vuolos person a 3rd kid to hole for and 2 young ladies to raise.
Felicity, who was calved successful 2018, did marque appearances connected Counting On before its authoritative cancellation successful 2021, but Jinger and Jeremy yet decided that was capable world TV for their brood until they were aged capable to accidental yea oregon nay themselves.
"We truly felt powerfully astir giving them privateness and allowing them to take if they wanted to beryllium successful the nationalist oculus oregon now," she told E!. "For now, we're conscionable protecting their privateness until they tin take what they privation to do."
What benignant of learning situation the kids are taught successful is up to them, however, and Jinger acknowledged to E! that she wasn't definite yet what benignant of schooling (home oregon away, nationalist oregon private, et al.) was successful the cards for Felicity—but successful the meantime she was grateful that L.A. offered truthful galore "awesome schoolhouse options" to take from.
Options being the operative word, thing Jinger didn't consciousness she had excessively galore of increasing up.
And though her rejection of IBLP consequently led to immoderate fraying of ties with definite household members, Jinger is inactive portion of the fold, astir precocious returning to Arkansas to observe sister Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissman's August nuptials.
"We celebrated the blessed couple...enjoyed tons of saccharine clip with household and friends & ate tons of delicious food," Jinger posted connected Instagram. "Until adjacent clip AR!"
And erstwhile her ma and respective of her younger sisters came to L.A. precocious for a visit, that was people the perfect clip to archer them that the household histrion was increasing different limb.
"Throughout the time I was thinking, OK, it's clip to archer them, earlier they each get successful the blistery tub astatine night," she said successful an Oct. 18 video recounting however she delivered the news, implicit with a clip of the large reveal. "I waited—and waited and waited."
She ended up waiting until they were in the blistery tub, and Jinger wondered aloud whether it was harmless for her to articulation them, saying, "I don't deliberation I'm expected to get successful if I person a babe successful my tummy."
Cue the excitement.
And earlier the latest subordinate of the Duggar-Vuolo household arrives, here's a broad usher to Jinger's full family:
Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar
The parents of 19 and grandparents of implicit 3 twelve small ones started retired arsenic precocious schoolhouse sweethearts.
Michelle has recalled being "saved" astatine 15. Then, 1 night, Jim Bob was making location outreach visits connected behalf of his Baptist religion and helium ended up knocking connected the Ruark family's doorway aft his person told him that "this miss from schoolhouse that conscionable got saved and is simply a cheerleader" lived there.
They invited Michelle to Sunday schoolhouse astatine their religion and, Jim Bob said, helium prayed to deity that they could beryllium each other's spiritual leaders—though seemingly their archetypal gathering wasn't arsenic memorable for Michelle. A twelvemonth later, she applied for a occupation astatine the frozen yogurt store owned by Jim Bob's parents. "You came to the antagonistic wherever I was lasting by the currency registry and introduced yourself," Michelle remembered successful a missive posted connected the household blog successful 2017 for Jim Bob's day and their 33rd wedding anniversary. "You were shy but precise sweet! I truly don't retrieve overmuch astir that conversation, but that you yet mustered up the courageousness to inquire maine if I would spell to your junior-senior banquet with you!"
She attended the meal with him astatine Shiloh Christian, but it was erstwhile they hung retired afterward discussing the Bible for hours astatine her parents' location that she knew."From there, we judge our hearts were knit together," Michelle has said. "We graduated precocious schoolhouse successful May of 1984 and were joined successful July. I was 17 and Jim Bob was 19."
More Than Three Decades Later..
The mates dedicated themselves to God and each other for the agelong run.
Jim Bob is simply a erstwhile authorities legislator, having served successful the Arkansas House of Representatives for the sixth territory from 1999 until 2002, during which helium was vice seat of the House of Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee. A run for U.S. Senate successful 2002 ended successful the primary, arsenic did a bid successful 2006 to go the Republican nominee for Arkansas State Senate District 35.
He and Michelle, who are some licensed realtors, person been progressive successful blimpish causes—an facet of their manner that won them and 19 Kids and Counting (which premiered successful 2008 as 17 Kids and Counting) both fierce supporters and fierce critics. A robocall Michelle recorded in 2014 encouraging radical to ballot against a projected anti-discrimination ordinance successful Fayetteville—in which she said she was calling to "inform" them of the alleged dangers of making it ineligible for transgender men and women to usage the facilities they consciousness safest and astir comfy in—inspired a Change.org petition demanding TLC cancel their show.
The city assembly approved the ordinance.
Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)
Eldest Duggar kid Josh was calved March 3, 1988. He excessively became a blimpish activist, campaigning for the Family Research Council.
He stepped down aft aged constabulary records surfaced successful 2015 revealing that helium had been accused of molesting respective girls, including his sisters Jessa and Jill, erstwhile helium was a teenager. Jessa defended her member successful a sit-down with Fox News that June, insisting that the worst names radical were calling Josh were "so overboard and a lie, really. I mean radical get huffy astatine maine for saying that, but I tin accidental this due to the fact that I was 1 of the victims."
His woman besides stuck by him, including aft helium admitted to being unfaithful. When helium checked into a attraction halfway successful 2016, his parents called it "a important archetypal measurement successful recovering and healing."Parents of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the ungraded broke, Anna gave commencement to their 4th child, Meredith, connected July 16, 2015, the aforesaid time TLC canceled 19 Kids. Their 5th child, lad Mason Garett, was calved Sept. 12, 2017, girl Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and babe No. 7, Madyson Lily, was calved Oct. 23, 2021.
In a national indictment filed successful April 2021, Josh was charged with a number apiece of receipt and possession of kid pornography. He pleaded not blameworthy connected some counts. In 2022, Josh was recovered blameworthy connected some counts, and sentenced to 12 and a fractional years successful prison.
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John-David Duggar (m. Abbie-Grace Burnett)
Shortly aft Josh was born, Michelle got large again, but suffered a miscarriage. While she and Jim Bob were inactive grieving that nonaccomplishment and praying for guidance, they recovered retired that twins were connected the way.
"We felt it was a treble blessing," she told Love to Know. "God was encouraging our hearts. We're inactive learning. It's truly truthful unusual, due to the fact that I breastfeed my babies, but my children are truthful adjacent together. I person a babe and past 8 months aboriginal I'm expecting. Just different antithetic happening the Lord has seen acceptable to bash with our situation."
John-David and his sister Jana were calved connected Jan. 12, 1990.
After a whirlwind courtship (they did "know of each other" for respective years, though, earlier gathering astatine a religion lawsuit successful Abbie's location authorities of Oklahoma) and a short engagement, John-David and Abbie got married connected Nov. 3, 2018. They welcomed daughter Grace Annette Duggar connected Jan. 7, 2020 and son Charlie Duggar successful September 2022.
Jana Duggar (m. Stephen Wissmann)
On their 30th day successful January 2020, John-David's duplicate confessed successful a sweet message to him, "Ever since John and I were small we've been asked if we person that 'twin thing'. You know, the happening wherever you consciousness what the different 1 is feeling oregon cognize what the different 1 is thinking...Well, John, I've ever answered that with a no—but present I tin honestly accidental that the time small Gracie was calved I felt each spot of happiness that you did, truthful I conjecture it indispensable beryllium real!"
Jana continued, "It's truthful saccharine watching you & Abbie arsenic parents! You're naturals! And the aforesaid qualities that person made you a fantastic member volition besides marque you an astonishing dad."
And portion Jana watched 11 of her 18 brothers and sisters get joined earlier she recovered emotion with Stephen Wissmann—who sister Hannah Wissmann is joined to the erstwhile TLC star's member Jeremiah—she believes it's each portion of God's plan.
"I haven't ever understood what the bigger representation is, but I cognize that God knows what is champion for each of us. And truthful for me, it's getting joined later," Jana told People successful August 2024, soon earlier her wedding. "Each of our stories volition beryllium written differently. If we were each the nonstop same, it would beryllium a boring life."
Jill Duggar (m. Derick Dillard)
Jill was born on May 17, 1991. In a emotion communicative reminiscent of her parents', Jill archetypal met Derick (who grew up astir 45 minutes away) connected Christmas 2011 erstwhile helium stopped by the Duggar household abode portion retired caroling with his religion group.
Jim Bob played matchmaker, and Jill and Derick deed it off, increasing person implicit email and Skype. Father and girl went to sojourn Derick successful Nepal that November and Jill and Derick continued to autumn for each other. In February 2014, Derick asked Jim Bob for his daughter's manus successful marriage, and they tied the knot connected June 21, 2014. They are parents to 3 sons—Israel, calved connected April 6, 2015, Samuel, calved July 8, 2017, and Frederick, calved July 7, 2022.
In April 2024, Jill shared that she had suffered a gestation loss portion expecting her and Derick's archetypal babe girl.
The mates starred on 19 Kids and Counting and later, Counting On. Derick was fired from the amusement successful 2017 aft making homophobic remarks astir chap TLC world star, Jazzy Jennings.
Jill and Derick reflected connected the controversies and spiritual beliefs surrounding her household successful the Amazon Prime Video documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, which premiered successful June 2023.
Jessa Duggar (m. Ben Seewald)
Jim Bob and Michelle's 5th kid was calved Nov. 4, 1992.
Jessa met Ben done religion and helium began courting her successful 2013—the old-fashioned approach to romance coming arsenic a brand-new conception to a batch of viewers. The kids ne'er talked astir their romances pre-engagement, truthful Jim Bob explained to People, "Courting is getting to cognize each different successful a radical setting, some families spending clip unneurotic and the mates mounting goals unneurotic to find if they are meant to marry. With dating, a mates volition often brace disconnected unsocial and that sometimes leads to a much carnal relationship."
Ben asked for Jessa's manus and past projected successful August 2014—sealing the woody by holding her manus for the archetypal time. They joined connected Nov. 1, 2014. Jessa was large with their archetypal kid when 19 Kids and Counting was canceled and TLC subsequently aired a peculiar astir intersexual abuse, featuring Jill and Jessa, to further amended viewers connected the subject. The sisters would extremity up the stars of their ain show, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, that winter; the amusement past evolved to become Counting On, featuring different Duggar siblings arsenic well.
Meanwhile, Jessa and Ben welcomed son Spurgeon on Nov. 5, 2015, lad Henry connected Feb. 6, 2017, daughter Ivy Jane on May 28, 2019 and daughter Fern successful July 2021. In February 2023, Jessa shared that she suffered a miscarriage implicit the 2022 vacation season. She gave commencement to her 5th child, George, successful December 2023.
Jinger Duggar (m. Jeremy Vuolo)
The sixth Duggar kid was calved Dec. 21, 1993.
Jinger and Jeremy met doing ministry enactment successful Laredo, Texas, and started courting successful 2016. They joined connected Nov. 5, 2016 (the bride's nephew Spurgeon's birthday—but you conscionable effort not overlapping milestones erstwhile you're 1 of 19), and were promptly the taxable of gestation rumors.
"Where we spot ourselves successful a twelvemonth is astir apt conscionable settled down, inactive doing ministry present successful Laredo, and conscionable seeking to service the Lord, however, we can," Jinger said connected a June 2017 occurrence of Counting On.
Their daughter Felicity was born July 19, 2018. In May of that year, they revealed that Jinger was pregnant again—and that she had suffered a miscarriage the erstwhile fall. In November 2020, they welcomed daughter Evangeline Jo.
Joseph Duggar (m. Kendra Caldwell)
No. 7 was calved connected Jan. 20, 1995. Taking vantage of the romantic setting, Joseph projected to Kendra (whom helium met done church) astatine his sister Joy-Anna's wedding successful May 2017 aft conscionable a fewer months of courting.
"I was decidedly tense going into it, but I wasn't acrophobic that she was going to accidental no, due to the fact that she has said, 'I'm conscionable waiting connected you!'" Joseph told People aft popping the question. Added Kendra, "I'm truthful blessed and truthful shocked. There's truthful galore words I privation to say, but conscionable shocked."
They've since welcomed three kids, lad Garrett, calved June 2018, daughter Addison, calved November 2019, girl Brooklyn, calved February 2019, and son Justus born May 2023.
Josiah Duggar (m. Lauren Swanson)
Eighth successful line, Josiah was calved connected Aug. 28, 1996.
Just a fewer months aft his courtship with Lauren went public, the mates announced their engagement in March 2018. "The spot wherever I proposed to Lauren is the nonstop spot wherever her parents were engaged," helium said successful a statement. "There's a lot of household past connected this spot making it a peculiar spot for Lauren."
Her aboriginal mother-in-law, Michelle, said successful a video posted connected the family's blog, "We emotion Lauren, she is specified a precious girl." Jessa and Ben besides offered congratulations, and cocoa shaped similar x's and o's. "Pretty definite that y'all privation to prevention your archetypal buss for your wedding day, but if you travel implicit present we'll springiness you..." She held up the saccharine consolation prize.
A previous courtship with Marjorie Jackson didn't enactment retired and they went their abstracted ways successful the summertime of 2015. "Marjorie and I had a bully clip together," Josiah recalled to People successful March 2016. "We were conscionable trying to travel God's pb connected everything. She didn't consciousness that it was the close timing then, truthful we called it quits for a bit."
He and Lauren tied the knot June 30, 2018, telling People their wedding time was "absolutely perfect." They welcomed girl Bella Milagro connected Nov. 8, 2019—the sanction translating to "miracle baby," aft the mates revealed Lauren had suffered a miscarriage successful October 2018. They welcomed different daughter, Daisy, successful 2022, and a lad named Ezra successful May 2023.
Joy-Anna Duggar (m. Austin Forsyth)
The ninth Duggar sibling was calved Oct. 28, 1997.
She knew Austin for 15 years arsenic a person earlier helium started courting her—after which they didn't discarded immoderate time. He projected successful February 2017 and they joined connected May 26, 2017, astatine Cross Church successful Rogers, Ark. (the wedding wherever Joseph projected to Kendra!). They welcomed lad Gideon Martin Forsyth connected Feb. 23, 2018.
In 2019, Joy-Anna suffered a gestation nonaccomplishment with a babe miss astatine 20 weeks along.
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On Aug. 21, 2020, the mates welcomed daughter Evelyn Mae Forsyth.
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The couple's 3rd child, son Gunner James Forsyth, was calved connected May 17, 2023.
Jedidiah & Jeremiah Duggar
Jim Bob and Michelle's 2nd acceptable of twins were calved connected Dec. 30, 1998.
It was reported successful February 2017 that Jed was interning astatine his dad's aged stomping grounds astatine the authorities capitol, moving for the Arkansas House of Representative—and astatine 21 he's connected the ballot running for State Representative for District 89, committed to "putting Springdale's blimpish values first." He married Katey Nakatsu after 1 twelvemonth of courting successful April 2021. They are parents to son Truett, calved May 2022, and girl Nora Kate, calved June 2023.
Jeremiah, a certified formation instructor, is joined to Hannah Wissmann and the 2 are parents to girl Brynley, calved December 2022, and Brielle, calved February 2024.
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Jason Duggar
Duggar kid No. 12 was calved connected April 21, 2000.
In January 2017, the Daily Mail reported that Jim Bob helped Jase bargain a $33,000 fixer-upper in Prairie Grove, Ark., about 30 minutes distant from the Duggar household homestead, and helium ended up starting his ain operation company. But of people he wasn't excessively engaged to help Jed with his campaign.
He went Instagram official with woman Maddie Grace successful May 2024 and the 2 got engaged successful August 2024.
James Duggar
Charmed No. 13, James arrived connected July 7, 2001.
On his 19th day successful 2019, his ma wrote, "He is the 'funcle' (fun uncle!) and each the younger boys astir present look up to him and privation to beryllium conscionable similar him! James is capable to bash conscionable astir thing helium thinks up. Even arsenic a child, we would find James 'fixing' assorted household appliances. He has ever been 1 to instrumentality things apart, fig retired however they work, and enactment them backmost together—with a fewer peculiar modifications!
"This twelvemonth James worked hard to get his CDL, and helium has go an adept astatine driving each the large trucks and dense machinery! We can't hold to spot what God has successful store for him successful the future!"
Justin Duggar
No. 14 arrived connected Nov. 15, 2002.
And from the section of increasing up so fast...
Justin went nationalist with girlfriend Claire in September 2020. The 2 got engaged the pursuing November and connected Feb. 26, 2021, they married.
Jackson Duggar
Here with his large sister Jill, Jim Bob and Michelle's 15th child was calved May 23, 2004.
On his 16th birthday, ma Michelle praised Jackson's consciousness of wit and noted that she knew helium couldn't wait to get his driver's license.
Johannah Duggar
Duggar babe No. 16 was calved Oct. 11, 2005.
"This miss is truthful amusive and outgoing, and she loves making caller friends," Michelle wrote connected Johannah's 15th day successful 2020. "Her younger sisters perfectly adore her and deliberation she hung the moon, and I couldn't beryllium much grateful to God for choosing maine to beryllium her Mom!"
Jenni Duggar
No. 17 arrived connected Aug. 2, 2007. Back erstwhile it was just 17 Kids and Counting, Jenni was the babe of the family.
Now, OMG, she's a teenager.
"Jennifer is dependable, loyal... and fun!" Michelle wrote erstwhile her small miss turned 13. "She is simply a favourite with the nieces and nephews and is usually carrying 1 of them astir due to the fact that they don't privation her to enactment them down! Jennifer besides has a peculiar emotion for animals and is precise faithful to instrumentality attraction of her pets each day! She precocious helped rise a litter of 7 small bunnies!"
Jordyn-Grace Duggar
Here on the right, the penultimate Duggar kid was calved Dec. 18, 2008.
In 2019, her ma called Jordyn-Grace an "outgoing miss who has ne'er met a stranger," with a laughter that "is ever 1 of the brightest spots successful our day."
Josie Duggar
Lucky No. 19, present holding niece Meredith, was calved connected Dec. 10, 2009—three months premature and weighing only 1 pound, 6 ounces. Josie spent six months successful the neonatal intensive attraction portion but is happily doing large now.
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