Jinger, 27, and her family were the focus of the popular TLC series19 Kids and Countingfrom 2008 through 2015. Later, she and several of her sisters starred onCounting On, which wascanceledearlier this week amid thechild pornography chargesfacing her older brotherJosh Duggar. (He has pleaded not guilty and awaits a November trial.)
“Guys would write from prison for my sisters,” she said. “It was crazy. We constantly had letters coming in the mail and it was like, ‘Oh, who is it for this time? Oh it’s forJana, oh it’s forJessa’… it was mind blowing just to think that somebody thought they would walk right into your life and marry you, like, they were already basically proposing in their letters.”
Duggar sisters.Jinger Duggar/instagram
Jinger Duggar/instagram
“And they thought it was legit but looking at it, you know, I can understand how somebody would think, ‘Oh, I know you so well because I watched you from a child grow up,’ so they think that there’s a relationship there when there’s not,” she continued. “It’s like, a one-sided thing.”
In addition to the letters, Jinger said “fanboys” would come around their church and home looking to court her and her sisters.
“There were a lot of guys who came around, sometimes they would come visit the family or visit our church — that was a good in for some guys. They thought, ‘Oh, if I come to your church, that’s my in,'” she said.
“It just felt so bizarre because it’s like, ‘Who are you? I don’t know you,'” she added. “The relationship side of things wasn’t even there, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh look, I’ve been hanging out for a while and get to know your family and then we’ll see if anything happens’ … they would say to my family, my parents or something, ‘Oh yeah I’m so interested in your daughter.'”
Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger (Duggar) Vuolo with daughter Evangeline Jo.TLC/Counting On
Jinger noted that she was uninterested in the boys who came around.
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Jinger is now more than four years into her marriage with husbandJeremy Vuolo, with whom she shares daughtersEvangeline Jo, 7 months, andFelicity, turning 3 later this month. She met Jeremy, 33, through brother-in-lawBen Seewald, who is married to sister Jessa (Duggar) Seewald.
“When he started coming around, it wasn’t because he was interested in me right off, he just had a relationship with Ben, my brother-in-law,” she said. “I heard so many awesome things about Jeremy, and it was from my sister and brother-in-law, and so, it was a perfect, perfect scenario.”
“I know it can happen other ways as well, like, it could have happened any other way — Jer could have come into my life and known about the show,” she continued. “But for me personally, it was awesome that he wasn’t like, a fanboy, you know? It was like, he had no clue about my family.”
source: people.com
