JINGER Duggar has shared the emotional moment she announced her pregnancy during a hot tub dip in LA.
Counting On star Jinger, 30, opened up with fans in a YouTube video on Tuesday, revealing how she revealed the news to her mom Michelle and her sisters.
She explained in the video how they’d all been in town for Jana‘s bachelorette party ahead of her wedding to Stephen Wissmann – which took place in August.
The reality star said: “When we were in Santa Barbara on one of those evenings, all the girls were getting in the hot tub, and they were like, ‘OK, we are going to find out who is pregnant based on who doesn’t get in the hot tub.’ I just totally ignored that comment.”
Jinger revealed that she had been trying to find the right moment throughout the day but ultimately decided to wait until the evening.
A clip from the video, which began with her gawking at a positive pregnancy test, showed Jinger addressing the group while they were in the hot tub.
She said: “I don’t know if I should get in. I don’t think I’m supposed to get in if I have a baby in my tummy.”
The revelation left her sisters, including Joy-Anna, Jessa, Jennifer and Johanna, as well as her sister-in-law Abbie, gasping in surprise.
Jinger explained that she was “very early” in her pregnancy and hesitated to share the news due to a past experience.
She confessed: “I was debating whether or not to tell you guys because last time I told you, you know, things didn’t go so well,” referring to a pregnancy loss she experienced before welcoming her second child with her husband Jeremy Vuolo.
The couple, who married in 2016, are already parents to daughters Felicity, three, and Evangeline, three.
Michelle then approached her daughter to embrace her, seeking confirmation of what she had heard.
She asked “Did you say, ‘I have a baby in my tummy?’ Is that what you said?” I was crunching on my chip and I couldn’t hear. I was like, ‘What?’”
Jinger went on to reveal that the baby is due around March.
She also noted that Jeremy had been encouraging her to share the news sooner.
She said: “He was like, ‘Tell them! Tell them!’ I’m a little nervous, but I’m so excited.”
Reflecting on the experience, Jinger expressed her gratitude for being able to tell her family in person.
She said: “I feel like having them so far across the country, it’s tough at times. You want to invite them into those special moments, but you don’t always get to do it in person.
“A lot of things are on FaceTime, and so it was just really sweet having them there, being able to tell them the special news.”
Jinger and her family shot to fame, having grown up on TV from 19 Kids’ inception in 2008 until Counting On’s cancelation in 2021.
Counting On was axed after sibling Josh Duggar was arrested and charged with child pornography.
Duggar Family Tree
How many children and grandchildren do Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have?
- Jim Bob and Michelle are parents to 19 children
- The couple has nine girls and 10 boys and all of their children have names that begin with the letter J
- Joshua, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn-Grace, and Josie, were all raised in the family home in Tontitown, Arkansas
