The Duggars have change into a family title due to their regularly rising squad, however it began with Jim Bob Duggar and spouse Michelle Duggar.
After tying the knot in 1984, Jim Bob and Michelle welcomed their first little one, son Joshua, in 1988. The pair then went on to have 18 extra kids, with their youngest, daughter Josie, being born in December 2009.
The household’s day-to-day actions had been documented on TLC’s 19 Children and Counting for 15 seasons from 2008 to 2015. A number of the children then branched off on their very own, starring on Counting On, starting in 2015. The present has already had 11 seasons.
The present documented the lives of sisters Jana, Pleasure-Anna, Jessa and her husband Benjamin Seewald, and Jinger. The spinoff additionally options the truth TV household’s different siblings, together with Joseph, Josiah and John-David, who’s Jana’s twin. Jinger’s husband, Jeremy Voulo, and Pleasure-Anna’s partner, Austin Forsyth, additionally seem often.
Because the group’s fame has grown — sisters Jessa, Jill, Jana and Jinger all wrote the ebook, Rising Up Duggar: It’s All About Relationships, collectively — so has their brood. In October 2009, Josh and his spouse, Anna Duggar, welcomed their first little one, Mackynzie, making Jim Bob and Michelle grandparents.
The toddler arrived simply two months earlier than her grandparents welcomed their nineteenth little one. The Arkansas household has since added 19 extra grandkids to their squad — with two extra on the way in which.
Whereas the household has had its ups and downs, together with Jill and her husband, Derick Dillard, departing the spinoff collection in 2017 and preserving their distance from the household, the group stays hopeful that household will at all times triumph.
“They’re working via some issues,” Jeremy solely instructed Us Weekly in April 2021 of his in-laws. “We’re giving them their time to try this … however we’ve received an ideal relationship [with them].”
The pastor added: “You at all times hope that households are united and, you recognize, the household is powerful. There’s going to be difficulties in each household [and] I believe that’s a part of being within the public eye. So many households undergo completely different points, particularly as kids are rising [up], and this household occurs to be within the public highlight. And so, they work via it.”
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