Jessa Duggar is refusing to let the critics get her down.
You may think the reality star is a bad parent, but Duggar thinks otherwise.
And to prove it, or simply because she’s yearning to raise another kid, Jessa has made it clear that she’s hoping to expand her family in the near future.
“I definitely have baby fever,” Jessa says simply in the latest issue of Us Weekly, adding that husband Ben Seewalk “would be overjoyed if we were to find out we were expecting again.”
Continuing with her candor, Duggar – who is the mother of a 17-month-old son named Henry and a two-year old son named Spurgeon -also admits that she wouldn’t mind a change in gender for her next kid.
“It would be sweet to have a baby girl,” she says.
Of course, this would also serve as quite a change for the famous couple, whose lives are chronicled on the TLC series Counting On.
“We’d probably feel like we were having to start again from ground zero if we had a girl thrown in the mix,” Jessa quips in this same interview, adding:
“It seems like we’re getting this boy thing down pat.”
This is a difficult statement to debate.
Both Spurgeon and Henry are very cute and seem to be very well behaved and adjusted.
Their mother, meanwhile, has talked about giving them a sibling for several months now.
She’s even leaned in to the many rumors that have circulated around the Internet, joking back in April that she had a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT to reveal to her Instagram followers.
Clearly aware that complete strangers were debating the status of her womb, Jessa posted a picture of herself in a baggy sweatshirt and wrote:
“Bc I’ve been asked if I’m hiding a bit of a bump… BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Yes!
“But it’s currently a shrinking bump rather than a growing one. #postpartum #baggyshirts #thanksforasking.”
Still, despite her denial this past spring that a bun was growing in her oven, few doubted that a third child would eventually spring forth from there.
Jessa is still only 25 years old and she’s still a member of a family that churns out babies on the reg.
She just spent some time in Texas to assist sister Jinger Duggar, for instance, after she gave birth to her first baby.
As the Ben and Jessa think about adding to their family, the latter admits something surprising: they are considering multiple options.
To date, no Duggar child has done anything except produce a little boy or girl biologically. Might that soon change?
Says Jessa to the aforementioned tabloid:
“The desire to adopt or possibly foster is one that continues to weigh heavily on our hearts.”
That would be interesting, huh?
It would give TLC plenty of storylines with which to work.
The new season of Counting On premieres Monday, July 30, at 9/8c on TLC.
