Jinger Duggar Says ‘It’s Possible’ Her Siblings Will Have 19 Kids

Jinger Duggar and her husband, Jeremy Vuolo, do not plan on having 19 children like her famous parents — but the jury’s still out for the rest of the Duggar siblings.

“We’re not having 19, so I don’t know,” Jinger, 31, said on the Wednesday, January 15, episode of the “Unplanned” podcast, when asked how many Duggar grandchildren there would be if she and each of her siblings had the same number of kids as their parents. “So, we gotta cut that out.”

Jinger then admitted that “it’s possible” some of her siblings might follow in parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s footsteps.

“It’s very possible,” she said. “So, get this: One of my brothers [Jedidiah Duggar] is a twin, OK? He and his wife [Katey Duggar] they’re pregnant with twins and their twins are going to be born before their oldest turns 3, so they’re going to have four under the age of 2, so it’s possible [to get up to 19].”

Jedidiah and Katey, both 26, welcomed twins Elsie and Emma earlier this month. They already share son Truett, 2, and daughter Nora, 19 months. With the twins’ additions, there are now 35 Duggar grandchildren. The next generation will continue to grow as Hannah Duggar, who is married to Jeremiah Duggar, and Jinger are both currently pregnant with baby No. 3.

Jinger, for her part, and Vuolo, 37, are already parents to daughters Felicity, 6, and Evangeline, 4. They are expecting a baby boy.

“We weren’t sure [if we were going to have another baby]. I was so comfortable with where we were with our girls,” Jinger added on Wednesday. “I was starting to really feel, like, we’ve hit a rhythm and I wasn’t wanting to, like, just jump into having a third kid immediately, so that’s why there’s a four-year age gap now.”

Jinger and Vuolo, who got married in 2016, live in Los Angeles with their daughters while most of her family resides in her native Arkansas. While they all communicate frequently via texts and FaceTime calls, it can be difficult for the toddlers to connect with their relatives.

“I was talking about one of my siblings or something and [Felicity was] like, ‘Wait you have a sibling with that name?’” Jinger recalled. “It just happens. That’s her aunt, you know, it’s because there’s so many. She knows them [and] she’s met all of them, hangs out with them. There are younger ones she will know some of them, but their names [are] hard to keep up … since we don’t see them all the time.”

According to Jinger, her kids are “even better” with the names of their first cousins than “all the aunts and uncles who can’t travel all the time by themselves.” (Jinger’s youngest sibling, sister Josie, is 15.)

“They can’t travel by themselves, and so if they’re not all out to visit all the time, it’s easy to forget,” Jinger said. “Like, she can’t remember the name Johannah … but it’s just because there are so many and that happens.”