Jinger Duggar Breaks Down Decision to Raise Daughters ‘Out of the Public Eye,’ Reveals Whether She Wants 3rd Baby
31.01.2023 - 21:15
/ usmagazine.com
Not ruling anything out. Jinger Duggar offered a glimpse at her and husband Jeremy Vuolo‘s approach to parenting — and revealed whether they have plans to expand their family.
“We’ll see, I don’t know. We’ve talked about it. I think we would be happy — we’re happy right now with our two girls. And then we’ll see in the future if we try for a third, we don’t know,” Duggar, 29, who shares daughters Felicity, 4, and Evangeline, 2, with Vuolo, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the release of her book Becoming Free Indeed on Tuesday, January 31.
The former reality star noted that her public upbringing influenced the way she tries to raise her own kids. (Duggar rose to fame after she and her family were the subject of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, which aired from 2008 to 2015.)
“I look at those years and I’m really grateful for the opportunities that I was able to have. Like we traveled the world, things that we wouldn’t have been able to do as like a large family,” she explained, referring to her parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s large brood. “At the same time, I can say I saw also those challenges. Like I just mentioned, walking through the hardest seasons of my life in the public eye and needing to give an answer. That was tough.”
For Jinger, it was important to keep her little ones out of the spotlight.
“We talked about it for a while even before we had kids and whether or not we wanted them in the public eye. And we decided just to keep them out of the public eye and let them choose what they want to do,” she continued. “So that’s just been our decision. We will sometimes post pictures of the back of their heads or little videos and you can hear their little voices or whatever. But not showing their faces has been