Is 19 Kids and Counting star Jana Duggar finally on the verge of breaking free from her famous family, and quitting the popular reality show as a result?
The eldest Duggar daughter - the 25-year-old and John David Duggar are twins, and older than married siblings Jill and Jessa Duggar - is often maligned.
While her sisters pursue courtship and adult lives of their own, Jana is essentially forced to stay home and take care of small army of younger siblings.
Basically, Jana is put upon by family members 24/7, whether it's tending to the little ones or acting as Jill and Jessa's de facto wedding planning aide.
It's a thankless role, and one that requires the patience of a saint.
Even that has limitations, it turns out, and Jana Duggar reportedly hit her breaking point when it comes to acting as an unpaid, unappreciated babysitter.
She's reportedly ready to strike out on her own and pursue her own dreams - ones that reportedly do not involve dating Zach Bates or Tim Tebow.
Or anyone else for that matter. Jana's main focus is education.
Jana Marie Duggar is so beautiful ... and put upon, supposedly, by a family that relies on her to help take care of the others but never have a life of her own. If that's true, it's sad. Is it time for her to break free?
Jana Duggar has some beautiful hair. Not that a guy will be able to see it up close as she's locked up at home raising her 16 younger sibs, but she looks great.
Having just turned 25 years old, Jana feels the time is right.
According to a source close to the famous TLC family, "She told her parents that she was looking at Christian colleges and would be applying soon."
"Jana knows she needs to get on with her education if she doesn't want to be stuck at her mom and dad's house in Arkansas for the rest of her life."
This will be music to the ears of many fans. But not her dad.
The bold announcement, apparently, did not sit well with Jim Bob, the Duggar patriarch and obvious family shot-caller, who tried to talk her out of it.
However, with Jill and sister-in-law Anna Duggar due to give birth soon, Jana knows the time is now to put herself first and take this big life change.
Otherwise, she's going to be changing a lot of diapers behind closed doors in 2015 as her siblings gush to TV cameras about how amazing parenting is.
The Duggar parents often accompany their kids on dates in order to maintain "accountability" and "keep things from going in the wrong direction," per Jim Bob. The girls are fine with this, as being alone with men puts them in grave "moral danger." When the parents aren't available, their older siblings will often tag along, making every date a group date and a family affair.
Even in the kids' late teens and early 20s, mom and dad are creeping on their text messages. When Ben Seewald jokingly wrote to fiancee Jessa, "Give me a ring," Jim Bob actually jumped in on the group text, writing "No ring yet." With a smiley face emoticon. Seriously, he did that. Jim Bob needs his own Instagram so he can start posting screen shots of this stuff.
This moment you see here between Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard would not have been permitted until the couple was married. Side hugs are the preferred method of PDA in order to prevent any further temptation or hanky panky, as has been well documented on 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars love their side hugs so hard. Any touching beyond that? Save it for your wedding night.
This is probably an obvious one if you know anything about the Duggars. The family does not smoke or drink. They do, however, enjoy the occasional sugary dessert or getting high on life and love.
Safe to say the Duggars are in the minority, having not read Fifty Shades of Grey (the movie adaptation of which they won't be seeing either, we're guessing). The Bible warns not to "think about gratifying the pleasure of the flesh," so instead the family studies Christian text and not E.L. James' erotic fiction. The Duggars' option is probably better-written.
Avert your eyes, Michelle Duggar! The family matriarch feels that dancing encourages "sensual" feelings, while Jessa Duggar has said that she feels modern music promotes "sex, drugs, all that type of stuff." Instead, the family chooses to play gospel music together.
Yes, seriously. There is Duggar-approved swimwear (it's conservative and not very revealing, spoiler alert) but when it comes to the beach, that's not happening. At all. Blame the general public. "It's just too hard for the guys to try and keep their eyes averted," Michelle explains. If we happened upon Kaley Cuoco doing beach yoga, we might see her point. But we also wouldn't complain.
Even if you took out the boozy parties and sexy nurses and cats looking to get frisky, Halloween would still be a no-go for the Duggars. According to the parents, magic and witches are "part of a demonic realm God wants us to stay away from," and this holiday qualifies. To each their own.
We don't actually know if there's a definitive rule against the use of birth control in the Duggar household, but it's clearly not something the family is thinking about, or using, ever. Just saying. Once those vows are exchanged, fornication and procreation tend to happen early and often, ensuring that the great state of Arkansas will never have a population shortage of really nice, quirky, family-first, side-hug loving human beings.
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