The 9 Duggar sisters — and their super-sized household — spent greater than 10 years showing on tv reveals.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are the mother and father of 19 kids, whose names all begin with the letter J: Josh, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Pleasure-Anna, Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn-Grace and Josie.
The Duggars first rose to fame in 2008, after they landed their very own actuality tv present 19 Youngsters and Counting. The TLC sequence grew to become an on the spot hit and gave viewers a peek into their ever-growing household and ultra-conservative Christian family.
Nonetheless, in 2015 — after 9 seasons on the air — the Duggars got here beneath fireplace after information broke that Josh Duggar, the eldest sibling, had allegedly molested 5 underage women when he was a young person. It was revealed that 4 of the alleged victims had been his sisters, and that each Jim Bob and Michelle had been allegedly conscious of their oldest son’s abuse. Because of the molestation scandal, TLC canceled 19 Youngsters and Counting in July 2015.
However the Duggar women, notably Jill Duggar Dillard and Jessa Duggar Seewald, returned to actuality tv in December 2015 with their very own spinoff, Counting On. The present ran for 11 seasons till TLC pulled the plug in June 2021, following Josh’s arrest on youngster pornography expenses.
Past Josh’s convictions, the Duggar household has confronted criticism lately for his or her affiliation with Invoice Gothard and the Institute in Fundamental Life Ideas. The controversial faith was the topic of a 2023 Prime Video docuseries Shiny Comfortable Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques, which uncovered the darkish aspect of the faith — and the way it formed and negatively impacted the once-beloved Duggar household.
All through the household’s ups and downs, lots of the Duggar sisters have solid their very own paths — beginning their very own households, writing books, recording music and extra. Jana even returned to social media and posted a YouTube video for the primary time in over three years in June 2024.
Here’s a take a look at every little thing the Duggar sisters have been doing since they left actuality tv in 2021.
Jana Marie Duggar, 35
The eldest Duggar daughter, Jana and her twin brother John-David had been born on Jan. 12, 1990, in Tontitown, Ark. She was first thrust into the highlight as a young person in 2008, when her household starred on the TLC actuality sequence 19 Youngsters and Counting. Following its cancellation in 2015, she appeared along with her sisters on the spinoff Counting On — however has led a comparatively personal life for the reason that present resulted in 2021.
Jana, who nonetheless lives in her hometown of Tontitown, works as a house remodeler and counts vegetation, street journeys and touring as her hobbies, in keeping with the Duggar household web site.
Although her older brother Josh’s authorized troubles have been effectively publicized over time, Jana had her personal brush with the regulation in September 2021 when she was charged with endangering the welfare of a minor. Whereas court docket paperwork didn’t present particulars of the incident, Jana informed her aspect of the story on social media.
“I used to be babysitting a couple of months in the past when one of many kids wandered exterior alone. A passerby who noticed the kid known as the police,” she wrote on her Instagram Tales in December 2021. “This resulted in a written quotation, in addition to a follow-up with youngster welfare who concluded that it was an accident and the kid was unhurt.”
In January 2022, the Counting On alum settled exterior of the district court docket and paid $880 after pleading responsible to the cost, a clerk confirmed to ipromiseyoumedia on the time.
After greater than a two-year hiatus from social media, Jana returned to Instagram in Might 2024 and posted a YouTube video about her life on the farm in June. The eldest Duggar sister shared that Johannah and Josie had been serving to her to keep up their herd of sheep and put up a brand new fence on the property.
In one other YouTube video, Jana revealed that she moved into her personal tiny dwelling “a couple of years in the past.”
“This constructing was once one of many metropolis’s non permanent workplace buildings [and] so we acquired a extremely whole lot on it,” she stated. “They had been auctioning it off.”
Jana married Stephen Wissmann on Aug. 15, 2024. The “traditional, elegant” ceremony passed off in Prairie Grove, Ark., in entrance of 500 friends.
“Coming from two larger households (Wissmann is one in every of 13 siblings), we love to have the ability to get collectively and rejoice moments like these,” she informed ipromiseyoumedia. “And so to have all of them there, it simply means rather a lot.”
Jill Michelle Duggar Dillard, 34
Jill Duggar Dillard, the fourth youngster and second oldest daughter within the Duggar household, was born on Might 17, 1991.
In 2013, she started a courtship with Derick Dillard — the place their relationship guidelines included chaperoned dates, saving hand-holding for engagement and allowing solely aspect hugs. The younger couple wed in June 2014 and exchanged their first kiss in entrance of their 1,000 friends — and on-screen, as their nuptials had been featured in an episode of 19 Youngsters and Counting.
However since changing into a married lady, Jill has distanced herself from her household — and emerged as some of the outspoken of the Duggars in opposition to their strict spiritual upbringing and expertise on actuality tv.
Lately, the spouse and mom (she and Derick are the mother and father of three boys: Israel David, Samuel Scott and Frederick Michael) has ditched a number of of the normal guidelines she was raised with. Jill has a nostril ring, wears pants, drinks alcohol and has even modeled swimwear.
However Jill, who lives along with her household on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas, has gone past merely embracing a extra relaxed way of life. In 2023, she appeared within the Prime Video docuseries Shiny Comfortable Folks: Duggar Household Secrets and techniques, exposing what she described because the cult-like and “fear-driven” methods of the Institute in Fundamental Life Ideas (or IBLP).
She additionally wrote a 2023 memoir, Counting the Value, that make clear the darker aspect of filming a actuality tv sequence along with her household — together with the claims that her father allegedly tricked her into signing a contract and solely paid her $175,000 for her 10 years of filming. On the time, Jim Bob and Michelle despatched a press release to ipromiseyoumedia, responding to Jill’s allegations.
“We’ve aimed to deal honorably with our youngsters, our funds, and our different endeavors,” they stated. “We don’t imagine the easiest way to resolve conflicts, facilitate forgiveness and reconciliation, or to speak by way of difficulties is thru the media or in a public discussion board so we is not going to remark.”
Forward of the e-book’s publication in September 2023, Jill shared with ipromiseyoumedia that she not had “one-on-one contact” along with her father. Nonetheless, each she and Derick had been hopeful that the bond along with her father could possibly be repaired, as they stated in an October 2023 look on Christy Carlson Romano’s Weak podcast.
“We hope for the longer term that issues can get higher, however we’re not dashing issues both with my household,” Jill stated. “We need to have good relationships, we would like there to be higher belief.”
Jessa Lauren Duggar Seewald, 32
The third Duggar daughter (and fifth total), Jessa Duggar Seewald, was born on Nov. 4, 1992. She adopted intently in her older sister Jill’s footsteps and wed Ben Seewald in November 2014. The couple stated “I do” in entrance of 1,000 friends and in addition had their nuptials filmed for 19 Youngsters and Counting, identical to Jill and Derick earlier than them.
Inside a yr of their wedding ceremony, Jessa and Ben welcomed their first youngster — a son named Spurgeon Elliot. Their son, Henry Wilberforce, was born in February 2017, adopted by daughters Ivy Jane and Fern in Might 2019 and July 2021, respectively. In December 2023, the couple welcomed their fifth youngster, a boy named George Augustine. Jessa and Ben are at present anticipating child No. 6.
However Jessa and Ben have additionally skilled loss: In February 2023, the previous Counting On star revealed on her YouTube channel that she had a miscarriage between Fern and George.
“Nothing may have ready me for the load of these phrases in that second,” Jessa recalled about studying she was miscarrying. “At that second I used to be simply in full shock. I didn’t have phrases. I simply instantly began crying.”
Jessa, Ben and their six kids stay in Springdale, Ark. — only a quick distance from her hometown of Tontitown — in a house they bought and transformed in early 2022.
Jinger Nicole Vuolo, 31
Jim Bob and Michelle welcomed Jinger Duggar Vuolo on Dec. 21, 1993.
Huge sister Jessa launched Jinger to her future husband Jeremy Vuolo — and their relationship took off quick from there. The fourth Duggar daughter and the previous skilled soccer participant started courting in June 2016 and had been engaged only a month later. By November 2016, the duo had been married — with their matchmaker Jessa serving as matron of honor on the nuptials.
Jeremy and Jinger are actually mother and father to 3 kids. Their first daughter, Felicity, was born in July 2018, and their second youngster, daughter Evangeline Jo, was born in November 2020 after Jinger had a miscarriage the yr prior. In March 2025, the couple welcomed their first son, Finnegan Charles.
Jinger was one of many first Duggars to talk out publicly in opposition to their conservative, spiritual upbringing. In early 2023, she launched her memoir, Changing into Free Certainly — and in it, she detailed what she known as the “cult-like tendencies” of the IBLP.
“The educating I grew up beneath was dangerous, it was damaging, and there are lasting results,” she informed ipromiseyoumedia. “However I do know different individuals are struggling and people who find themselves nonetheless caught. I need to share my story, and perhaps it is going to assist even only one individual to be freed.”
After rising up in concern that breaking any of the faith’s strict guidelines (similar to carrying pants or listening to music with drums) would carry her and her household hurt, Jinger walked away from the IBLP completely. She nonetheless views herself as a Christian, however she has left behind the inflexible teachings of her childhood.
“My religion continues to be intact, nevertheless it has modified. As an alternative of leaving the religion completely, I’ve been disentangling it,” she stated in a video.
Jinger acquired important backlash for her first e-book, however that did not deter her from writing Folks Pleaser, which hit cabinets on Jan. 14, 2025. She informed ipromiseyoumedia that it was “so liberating” to talk her fact publicly.
“My people-pleasing earlier than would by no means have allowed me to try this. I’d’ve been silent,” Jinger added.
Jeremy, Jinger and their kids at present reside in Santa Clarita, Calif., the place they bought a Tudor-style dwelling in August 2024.
Pleasure-Anna Forsyth, 27
Jim Bob and Michelle welcomed Pleasure-Anna Duggar Forsyth, the ninth of the 19 Duggar kids, on Oct. 28, 1997.
She and her husband Austin Forsyth had been buddies for 15 years earlier than the 2 married in Might 2017. Not lengthy after their nuptials, Pleasure-Anna and Austin welcomed their first youngster in February 2018: A son named Gideon Martyn. The couple opened up concerning the challenges of first-time parenthood on an episode of Counting On.
“Being a mother is in a number of methods simpler than I believed after which in a number of methods, more durable than I believed,” Pleasure-Anna stated within the episode. “It is given me a complete new appreciation for mothers on the market which have children.”
Pleasure-Anna and Austin introduced they had been anticipating their second child in Might 2019, however realized at their 20-week ultrasound that the fetus was stillborn.
Since their miscarriage, Pleasure-Anna and Austin have had two extra kids. Their daughter, Evelyn Mae, was born in August 2020 and their son Gunner adopted in Might 2023. They stay in Arkansas the place Austin works as a house builder and Pleasure-Anna chronicles their household life on their YouTube channel, Observe the Forsyths.
Johannah Religion Duggar, 20
After six straight boys, Johannah Duggar — the sixth Duggar daughter and sixteenth youngster total — was born on Oct. 11, 2005.
Her delivery was featured on one of many household’s first actuality tv specials, Elevating 16 Youngsters, which aired in March 2006.
Although she spent her childhood showing on 19 Youngsters and Counting, Johannah leads a comparatively personal life as a younger grownup. Her hobbies embrace taking part in volleyball and drawing, in keeping with the household web site, and she or he recorded an album in 2018 known as Comfortable Coronary heart along with her three youthful sisters, Jennifer, Jordyn-Grace and Josie.
Jennifer Danielle Duggar, 18
Jim Bob and Michelle welcomed Jennifer Duggar on Aug. 2, 2007.
In June 2022, Jennifer — alongside along with her sisters Jana and Jessa — visited Jinger in California. Jinger shared a handful of photographs from the journey on her Instagram, together with ones along with her “little sis Jennifer.” Michelle additionally posted a birthday tribute to her seventeenth youngster on the household’s Instagram account in August 2021.
Based on the Duggar household web site, Jennifer is an animal lover and the “most artful” member of their massive household.
Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, 16
Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, the 18th of the 19 Duggar kids, was born on Dec. 18, 2008.
When she was born, the primary season of 19 Youngsters and Counting (then known as 17 Youngsters and Counting) was underway and her delivery was featured on a particular episode.
As one of many youngest Duggars, Jordyn-Grace has served as a flower woman in a number of of her older siblings’ weddings. She’s described as a “sweet-hearted, assured woman” who loves calligraphy, artwork and vogue, on the household web site.
Josie Brooklyn Duggar, 15
The newborn of the Duggar household, Josie Brooklyn Duggar, was born prematurely on Dec. 10, 2009, at simply 25 weeks. She weighed just one lb. 6 oz. at delivery — and viewers of 19 Youngsters and Counting watched as she spent the primary a number of months of her life struggling to outlive.
Her well being points continued all through her childhood, with Josie even having a seizure whereas filming 19 Youngsters and Counting in 2014. Her oldest sister, Jana, helped take care of her throughout the medical emergency.
The Duggars have mirrored on Josie’s scary delivery on each her birthday and World Prematurity Day.
“That was essentially the most troublesome time in our household’s life,” the Duggars shared on Instagram about Josie’s delivery, “however by God’s grace Josie and our complete household made it by way of!”
Josie, who’s now a young person, lives at dwelling along with her household in Arkansas. Based on the household web site, she is a gifted musician and a “ball of vitality.”
