Jinger Duggar shared what it’s really like to have a large age gap with so many many brothers and sisters, as she gave an insight into the reality of having 18 siblings.
The 19 Kids and Counting alum, 31, was asked about the sizable age gap by a fan and responded via her Instagram Story on Thursday, October 30.
“Because of the age difference, do some of your siblings not feel so much like siblings? Make sense?” the social media follower asked.
Jinger confirmed that it was something she had pondered herself recently and had spoken about it in more depth in an upcoming episode of “The Jinger and Jeremy” podcast which she cohosts with her husband Jeremy Vuolo.
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“So funny you ask this! We literally just talked about this on the @jingerandjeremy podcast coming out soon,” she wrote in the Instagram Story. “Growing up in a big family is so unique — especially being one of the older ones. When I got married and moved out at 22, I still had so many younger siblings who were still so little.”
Jinger added, “Now they’re older and it’s been the sweetest thing getting to hang out, see their personalities grow, and really get to know them as adults. It almost feels like we’re in 3 different ‘family eras,’ but in the best way.”
Earlier this year, Jinger shared that she was closest to the eldest siblings in her family after her followers asked who she catches up with the most.
“I’d say I talk to my older sisters the most, and then beyond that, I just had [Jennifer] out here. That was so much fun, hanging out with her. My dad and Jackson also came through, and that was super fun,” Jinger explained via her Instagram Story in August.
Jinger added that she “talks to [Joy-Anna] all the time.”
“They were out here for a bit of time. [Joy-Anna’s husband, Austin Forsyth] had some work to do, and so we really connected. When she was out here for that month, it was so much fun,” Jinger added. “And I don’t know because I talk to Jessa, Jana, Jill, Joy, the girls. And then my brothers when they come visit. It’s super fun. And I love them all.”
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It’s not only her siblings that Jinger has struggled to keep up with, though. In March, she joked that she doesn’t always have a handle on the names of the 30+ Duggar grandkids.
“I struggle to remember all the names of the grandkids,” Jinger told her sister Joy-Anna on a March episode of her “Jinger & Jeremy” podcast. “I have most of them down, but there are a couple — and the newer ones, there are more added all the time.”
She continued, “I feel that pressure in, like, no one else is putting it on me. It’s me because when I go back, I’m like, ‘I feel so bad. I didn’t get to connect with them.’ Then, it’s like, ‘Oh, I guess it makes sense.’”
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar raised their 19 children in Arkansas, which is where most still live with their own families. Jinger, her husband Jeremy and their two daughters no longer live in Arkansas and have since moved to Los Angeles.
