Jinger Duggar is getting candid on what she and siblings went via rising up within the Duggar family.
“I keep in mind just a few instances after 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 toilet counter, my mother could be like ‘Don’t try this.’ They’re like, ‘They’re going to eat it.’”
Jinger is the sixth youngster 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 clarify how her siblings introduced their meals to the toilet as a result of they thought it was the one means they might be capable to eat.
“That’s actually what they thought, ‘I’m not going to have the ability to eat my meals as a result of any individual’s going to take it and we’d not have sufficient meals for seconds in the present day,’” she shared.
Jinger’s confession comes lower than two months after she opened up about the place her relationship stands together with her dad and mom now.
“I’m grateful for my childhood. It was not excellent. I shared loads 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 like them, we’ve variations, every little thing’s not excellent between us, however I feel that on the finish of the day, I 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 “arduous” conversations together with her dad and mom.
“They don’t need to be comfortable about it, however that’s what I must do,” she defined in June. “I selected to write down the ebook from the attitude of the theology being the driving power, as a result of I believed, ‘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 ebook 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 educating that I used to be raised in [and] to maintain it extra broad the place if anyone reads this popping out of a dangerous educating, they are often introduced out of their educating too,” she added.