Jinger Duggar is getting candid on what she and siblings went via rising up within the Duggar family.
“I bear in mind a couple of occasions once we had been very younger a few of my siblings would take their meals, take their plate of meals — prepare for this, it’s disgusting — within the rest room,” Duggar, 30, shared on her and her husband Jeremy Vuolo’s “The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast” on Wednesday, July 31. “They might carry it and put it on the lavatory counter, my mother could be like ‘Don’t try this.’ They’re like, ‘They’re going to eat it.’”
Jinger is the sixth baby of 19 Children and Counting stars Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar. The couple additionally share Josh, 36, John-David, 34, Jana, 34, Jill, 33, Jessa, 31, Joseph, 29, Josiah, 27, Pleasure-Anna, 26, Jedidiah, 25, Jeremiah, 25, Jason, 24, James, 23, Justin, 21, Jackson, 20, Johannah, 18, Jennifer, 17, Jordyn-Grace, 15, and Josie, 14.
Jinger went on to elucidate how her siblings introduced their meals to the lavatory as a result of they thought it was the one manner they might have the ability to eat.
“That’s actually what they thought, ‘I’m not going to have the ability to eat my meals as a result of anyone’s going to take it and we would not have sufficient meals for seconds immediately,’” she shared.
Jinger’s confession comes lower than two months after she opened up about the place her relationship stands along with her dad and mom now.
“I’m grateful for my childhood. It was not excellent. I shared a whole lot of difficulties that I struggled with all through my childhood, however on the finish of the day, I’m grateful for my dad and mom,” Jinger shared throughout a June look on the “Unplanned” podcast. “I really like them, we now have variations, all the pieces’s not excellent between us, however I believe that on the finish of the day, I really like them and I do know that they know that.”
Following the discharge of her memoir, Turning into Free Certainly: Disentangling Religion From Concern, in 2023, which delved into her experiences rising up with the fundamentalist Christian teachings of the Institute of Fundamental Life Rules (IBLP), Jinger shared she needed to have “onerous” conversations along with her dad and mom.
“They don’t should be completely happy about it, however that’s what I have to do,” she defined in June. “I selected to jot down the guide from the angle of the theology being the driving pressure, as a result of I assumed, ‘If my mother reads this, if my dad reads this, if my siblings learn this, how are they gonna take it?’”
Jinger famous she selected to keep away from speaking about household drama within the guide as a result of she didn’t need members of the family to “be offended” about something she wrote about.
“I selected to maintain it centered on the problems of the instructing that I used to be raised in [and] to maintain it extra broad the place if anyone reads this popping out of a dangerous instructing, they are often introduced out of their instructing too,” she added.