Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)

Jim Bob and Michelle’s eldest child, Josh, was born on March 3, 1988. After receiving home schooling (as the Duggars would do with all their children), he too became a conservative advocate for family councils. He resigned after old police records emerged in 2015 showing that he was accused of molesting several girls, including his sisters Jessa and Jillwhen he was a teenager.

Jessa stood up for her brother with Fox News in June 2015, insisting that the worst names people were calling Josh were “so overboard and a lie, really. I mean, people get mad at me because they said that, but I can say that because I was one of the victims. “

His wife stayed with him even after he admitted to being unfaithful. When he checked into a treatment center in 2016, his parents called it “a crucial first step to recovery and healing”.

They were parents of three children – daughter Mackynzie (October 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013) – When the scandal broke out and Anna gave birth to her fourth child, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the same day that TLC officially canceled 19 children. Your fifth child, son Mason Garett, was born on September 12, 2017 and their youngest daughter Maryella Hope, arrived on November 27, 2019.

Anna, who appeared on Counting On without her husband, celebrated her 12th birthday on September 26th and wrote on Instagram: “12 years ago today we said: ‘I do!’ I am so grateful for