Michelle Duggar is hoping to have her twentieth child soon, and since there's no way they could've known ten or twelve kids ago that they would be the stars of a successful reality show, one can't help but wonder why exactly she and husband Jim Bob would want to raise such a giant family.
The Duggars were asked that question point blank in a recent interview and their answer may surprise you:
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are still working on that 20th kid.
"When we first got married, we thought we would have maybe two or three children," the Duggars wrote in a response. "Michelle started off our marriage taking the birth control pill so that we could plan when we wanted children."
"After three years Michelle went off the pill and we had our son Josh...We didn't think we were ready for more children yet, so Michelle went back on birth control pills."
Then, as the Duggars say "the unexpected happened, followed by the unthinkable."
"Michelle got pregnant even though she was still taking birth control pills," the Duggars added. "Between her second and third month, Michelle miscarried."
"When the doctor told us the miscarriage probably happened because Michelle had conceived while still on the pill, we were devastated. We agreed we would stop using any form of birth control and let God decide how many children we would have."
The story, of course, has a happy ending and the Duggars went on to raise an astonishing 19 children, some of whom are now leaving the nest and starting families of their own.
The fourth Duggar child, Jill Duggar, recently got engaged to Derek Dillard and Michelle and Jim Bob became grandparents in 2011.
The family, of course, continues to document their lives for television audiences. Cameras were on hand recently to capture the first meeting between Jill and Derek.
Naturally, Jim Bob was there to chaperone:
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