{"id":847,"date":"2026-05-01T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/01\/jinger-duggar-explains-why-she\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:47:00","slug":"jinger-duggar-explains-why-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/01\/jinger-duggar-explains-why-she\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinger Duggar Explains Why She"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-554055\">\n<div>\n<p><span><span>Reading Time: <\/span> <span> 3<\/span> <span>minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Duggar\u2019s arrest has left the entire family rattled \u2014 some more than others.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent podcast episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/04\/jinger-duggar-addresses-joseph-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jinger discussed how the cult\u2019s theology<\/a> turned into a family curse.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of. It was really mostly <em>her husband<\/em> who did the talking, even though it was about her family and her disgraced brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Jinger promises that she can explain why she was so \u201cdisconnected.\u201d She wants fans to know that she\u2019ll be okay.<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger Duggar on their podcast on April 22, 2026.\"   src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0427_use_jingerduggar_02_jeremyvuolo.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>On their shared podcast, Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger Duggar discuss IBLP and its pernicious impact upon her family.<span> (Image Credit: YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-it-s-been-a-heavy-season-that-reopened-old-wounds\">\u2018It\u2019s been a heavy season that reopened old wounds\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>During the recent episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8_hbvi-UeNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Jinger &#038; Jeremy Podcast<\/a><\/em>, the titular hosts delved into the IBLP cult and how it can lead to things like Josh\u2019s incarceration and Joseph\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, they made some decent points \u2014 like how the isolation of people to \u201cprotect\u201d them from the world endangers them.<\/p>\n<p>They could have gone further than they did. Arguably, there are ideological barriers. But it was a refreshing stance from Duggars.<\/p>\n<p>But though we reported on Jinger\u2019s words at the time, her husband did the majority of the talking.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous fans and watchers observed that it seemed like Jinger spoke very little, and not just in the normal <em>conservative wife<\/em> way. It was almost as if she were spacing out.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe title=\"The Dangerous Theology Behind These Scandals | Ep. 92\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-cookieconsent=\"statistics, marketing\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_hbvi-UeNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div class=\"cookieconsent-optout-statistics cookieconsent-optout-marketing\">Please accept <a href=\"javascript:Cookiebot.renew()\">statistics, marketing<\/a> cookies to watch this video.<\/div> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jingervuolo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> Q&#038;A, Jinger used her Stories to respond to fan questions \u2014 including one that observed that she looked \u201cdisconnected\u201d during the video.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the screenshot below, captured by <em>The Ashley<\/em> before its deletion, Jinger selected this and gave a public response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for asking. It\u2019s been a heavy season that reopened old wounds,\u201d she began.<\/p>\n<p>(As we have explained in the past, \u201cseason\u201d has become a popular piece of diction among evangelical Christians, referring not to weather or television, but to chapters of their lives.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to talk about these things on the pod,\u201d Jinger expressed. \u201cAnd at the same time, it\u2019s honestly so hard to do.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"561\" height=\"925\" alt=\"A Jinger Duggar Instagram story.\"   src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0501_jingerduggar_ig_01.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>On her Instagram Story during a Q&#038;A, Jinger Duggar explained her difficulty in discussing a topic that hits close to home.<span> (Image Credit: Instagram)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-i-see-brighter-days-ahead\">\u2018I see brighter days ahead\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been plugged in deep with my community here,\u201d she assured, indicating that she isn\u2019t isolating.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Jinger has been \u201cnot as active on socials.\u201d That is very wise.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she has been \u201cenjoying fun days with my little fam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jinger concluded by saying that her \u201cGod is giving me help as I see brighter days ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, she\u2019s hoping to let fans know that she has a support system in place and is coping as well as she can.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Jinger Duggar on her podcast April 22, 2026.\"   src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0427_use_jingerduggar_03.png\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>On the podcast that she shares with her husband, Jinger Duggar speaks about how she felt \u201cashamed to have a body\u201d growing up as a woman under the cult\u2019s theology.<span> (Image Credit: YouTube)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2015, the world learned that Josh had, as a teenager, molested five young girls. Four of his victims were his own little sisters.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Jim Bob and Michelle trotted out Jessa and Jill to go on Fox News and tell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/11\/megyn-kelly-epstein-not-a-pedophile-trump-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Megyn Kelly<\/a> (who else?) that their brother\u2019s sex abuse wasn\u2019t as bad as people thought. TLC canceled the show anyway, but gave them a Josh-free spinoff.<\/p>\n<p>Without speculating about who the other victims may have been, Jinger\u2019s preoccupation makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions of topics that hit close to home prompt different reactions from anyone with trauma.<\/p>\n<p>It is very common for someone to dissociate, mentally distancing themselves from their current surroundings as a protective safeguard, when something so upsetting is under discussion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes Joseph Duggar\u2019s arrest has left the entire family rattled \u2014 some more than others. During a recent podcast episode, Jinger discussed how the cult\u2019s theology turned into a family curse. Sort of. It was really mostly her husband who did the talking, even though it was about her family and her disgraced brothers. Jinger promises that she can explain why she was so \u201cdisconnected.\u201d She wants fans to know that she\u2019ll be okay. On their shared podcast, Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger Duggar discuss IBLP and its pernicious impact upon her family. (Image Credit: YouTube) \u2018It\u2019s been a heavy season that reopened old wounds\u2019 During the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225,2,227,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duggar-news","category-hollywood","category-jinger-duggar","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}