Back in March, Josh Duggar left rehab after six months of in-patient rehab for sex addiction.
The eldest son of reality TV’s most controversial couple has kept a relatively low profile ever since, but eagle-eyed fans have spotted the disgraced 29-year-old at a number of family events, including Jinger Duggar’s wedding in November.
The family does its best to keep Josh off its social media pages and TV series (Though he was in attendance at both the ceremony and reception, Josh was not featured in the televised special about Jinger’s wedding.), but one often gets the sense that he’s lurking just off camera.
Josh has taken on a Big Foot-like mystique for Duggar obsessives who are baffled by his continued attendance at family events, and who scrutinize family photos for signs of his presence.
The latest talk of a near-Josh sighting took place on New Year’s Eve, when fans insisted that the woman featured in the following photo was a pregnant Anna Duggar:
We’ve been hearing rumors Anna is pregnant with her fifth child for months now, but the Duggars have yet to confirm or deny the reports.
Several fans leapt at the opportunity to cite this photo as evidence that Anna is expecting, and that the photo was edited so as to cut Josh out of the frame, but their arguments are shaky at best.
Within hours of the photo appearing online, fans were spreading the word that Anna’s pregnancy had been confirmed
Duggar loyalists took to Facebook to debunk the rumor:
“How do any of you even think this is Anna?” Jenny Tharp commented.
“There’s not even a tiny bit of face showing in this picture. It could literally be ANYONE. And maybe they’re not even pregnant.”
The debate may have been settled by Denise Brummett Barnhart, a close friend of the Duggars, who commented on the photo:
“To put this conversation to rest, this is my 17 yr old daughter and she is DEFINITELY NOT PREGNANT!”
That should settle the matter, but rumors involving the Duggars tend to take on lives of their own.
It seems some fans (and critics) of the family tend to be just as naive and prone to believing nonsense as the Duggars themselves.
